Can a decision of a different court be varied?

Yukon, Canada


The following excerpt is from Brown v. Canada (Attorney General), 2019 YKSC 21 (CanLII):

The court in Chutskoff Estate v. Bonora, 2014 ABQB 389 (“Chutskoff”), held that a decision of another court cannot be varied except in the appropriate procedural context such as an appeal and that a collateral attack is frivolous and vexatious: paras. 97 and 98.

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