What is the test for a vested right?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Haghdust v. British Columbia Lottery Corporation, 2014 BCSC 1327 (CanLII):
On the question of when a right is vested, Bastarache J. wrote in Dikranian v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2005 SCC 73, [2005] 3 S.C.R. 530 at para. 37: … an individual must meet two criteria to have a vested right: (1) the individual’s legal (juridical) situation must be tangible and concrete rather than general and abstract; and (2) this legal situation must have been sufficiently constituted at the time of the new statute’s commencement (…).
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