What is the prerequisite to jurisdiction of a court?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Del’s Machinery Ltd. v. British Columbia (Minister of Transportation), 2011 BCSC 754 (CanLII):

A similar statement of the prerequisite to jurisdiction was made in Kliman v. Saanich School District No. 63 (1992), 48 L.C.R. 204 at para. 7 (B.C.E.C.B.).

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