What is the test for quashing a resolution?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Pucci v. North Vancouver (City), 2010 BCSC 743 (CanLII):
The petitioners also rely on an earlier case involving the same parties, Kollen v. Vancouver (City), 2004 BCSC 684, 49 M.P.L.R. (3d) 134, where Garson J. (as she then was) held at para. 34 that “a resolution may be quashed if it appears the decision was grounded upon or activated by an improper or incorrect assumption”.
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