WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY - Offences and enforcement

Law360 Canada ( February 17, 2021, 6:18 AM EST) -- Appeal by Seattle Environment and its principal, Singh, from orders permanently enjoining them from engaging in the asbestos abatement industry and finding them both guilty of contempt of a 2012 court order prohibiting noncompliance with the Workers Compensation Act. The judge addressed 51 allegations of breaches of the Act and regulations at 21 different worksites over four years. The judge found Seattle and Mike Singh guilty of seven counts of contempt for breaching the 2012 order and 21 distinct breaches of the Act and regulations which warranted granting the permanent injunction. She imposed a suspended sentence on Mike Singh for contempt with one year’s probation, including six weeks of house arrest. The judge found the board failed to make out its case against Shawn Singh, and that, as the successful party, he was entitled to his costs on half of the matters before her. The judge concluded the board succeeded against Mike Singh and Seattle on a subset of the contempt allegations and in obtaining the permanent prohibition from participation in the industry, and that the board was therefore entitled to its costs against those parties for half of the matters before her. To simplify the costs award, she ordered all parties to bear their own costs....
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