What is the legal justification for using the CRT as a substitute for the Owner's Condominium Plan?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from West. v The Owners, Strata Plan BCS 2637, 2021 BCSC 824 (CanLII):
As to the legal justification for this kind of approach, counsel explains the significant degree of procedural flexibility that the CRT enjoys has been found to “accord[…] with the proportionality principle”: Allard v. The Owners, Strata Plan VIS 962, 2019 BCCA 45, at para. 33.
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