23/08/13 – Jurisdiction British Columbia
Part 1 published on 01/02/03
Municipality might be liable for failure to warn of defect
Part 1 published on 01/02/03
Municipality might be liable for failure to warn of defect
The Vancouver Charter protects the City of Vancouver from any claims for failure to discover contraventions of municipal by-laws during the City’s inspections of construction. However, it was not clear that the Charter extinguished the cause of action for failure to warn of a defect. Therefore, such claims (failure to warn) were permitted to proceed.