Saskatchewan Court of Appeal overturns ruling on Lighthouse executive director | 24CA News
A court docket ruling that eliminated the manager director of the Lighthouse in Saskatoon has been overturned by the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.
On March 20, Judge Barrington-Foote dominated that Don Windels had been denied procedural equity as a result of he was not given the chance to reply to the case offered towards him.
“However, Mr. Windels, like any litigant, has a right to a fair hearing and to see that justice is done in accordance with the law. I have concluded that he was not accorded those rights,” Barrington-Foote famous within the court docket docket.
“There were very significant breaches of the duty of fairness in the process that led to the Oppression Fiat.”
Decisions made in earlier trials together with oppression treatments, often known as any wrongs performed to a stakeholder, will now should be remitted to the Court of King’s Bench.
“Simply put, he was not afforded the opportunity to know and meet the case against him,” Barrington-Foote mentioned.
A court docket resolution in late February positioned the Lighthouse in interim receivership.
In early February, Jerome Hepfner and Twila Reddekopp — two members of the board — filed affidavits claiming that the Lighthouse governing physique hadn’t been making selections in the most effective curiosity of the group, together with mismanagement of cash.
The accounting agency MNP LLP has taken management of the non-profit group and is scheduled to report again to court docket with its findings on April thirteenth.
— with information from Global’s Brooke Kruger
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