Duty of Good Faith and Honest Performance Extended to All Contracts in Canada
On November 13, 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada updated Canadian common law by extending for the first time the principle of good faith to ... Continued
MASH Sector Needs to Brace for Possible New Era in Procurement – Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA)
Until now, the MASH (municipal, academic, schools and hospitals) sector has in practice been relatively unscathed by federal trade agreements, such as the Agreement of ... Continued
Clark Wilson helped YVR subsidiary close $39.5M deal
Clark Wilson’s team of Alex Petrenko, Roy Nieuwenburg, Shauna Towriss, Rachelle Mezzarobba, and Ravi Bindra helped Vancouver Airport Property Management LLP purchase key interests in ... Continued
Final Certificate of Payment – final no more
BC Supreme Court declines to apply final payment certificate release to deny previously unstated claim for interest on late payments BC Supreme Court decision in ... Continued
Understanding authority levels – applied to RFPs and tenders
In a recent article titled “Understanding authority levels” that appeared in the Journal of Commerce (June 17, 2013 issue), Stephen Bauld (a procurement consultant and ... Continued
The new Limitation Act, 2012
The British Columbia government recently announced a proposed new Limitation Act which will materially change the rules for limitation periods in the Province. Similar reforms ... Continued
Outsourcing and Letters of Credit: Making Sense Out of Contract Security
Published June 1996 Canadian businesses and governments are looking for outsiders to take over many functions such as printing, mail rooms, fleet management, and data ... Continued
Outsourcing and Letters of Credit: Making Sense Out of Contract Security
Canadian businesses and governments are looking for outsiders to take over many functions such as printing, mail rooms, fleet management, and data or computing services. ... Continued
The ‘Privilege Clause’ in construction tender documents – Supreme Court of Canada decision in M.J.B. Enterprises v. Defence Construction Ltd.
This much–awaited decision has come down. It always was a simple case. The Supreme Court of Canada confirmed what we already knew, from Ron Engineering, ... Continued
BC Court of Appeal speaks on tendering – Midwest vs. BC Gas case of Contract Security
This is a righteous decision. In our Fall, 1999 issue of the Construction Law Bulletin we reported that in this case the BC Supreme Court ... Continued
Common sense prevails in evaluation and award; post-closing qualification process
It is comforting to observe recent cases reinforcing that organizations issuing tenders or RFPs do not have to throw common sense or good judgement out ... Continued
New West Partnership Trade Agreement – TILMA expands to Saskatchewan
The New West Partnership Trade Agreement (NWPTA), among the Governments of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, was signed on April 30, 2010. In general terms ... Continued