SUPREME COURT OF NOVA SCOTIA
Citation: Egg Films Inc. v. Nova Scotia (Labour Board), 2013 NSSC 123
Date: 20130417
Docket: Hfx. No. 393069
Registry: Halifax
Between:
Egg Films Inc.
Applicant
v.
The Labour Board and The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories, and Canada, Local 849
Respondent
LIBRARY HEADING
Judge: The Honourable Justice Arthur W.D. Pickup
Heard: March 6, 2013 in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Subject: Judicial Review of Labour Board Decision
Summary: The union applied to the Board to become certified as the bargaining agent for motion picture technicians employed by Egg Film Inc. The Board certified the union on October 1, 2012. The applicant says that the Board=s conclusions were unreasonable.
Issue: What is the appropriate standard of judicial review? Were the Board=s decisions and interim orders, one and two, reasonable?
Result: The standard of review was reasonableness. The Board=s decisions and interim orders, one and two, were reasonable, under the analysis required by Dunsmuir and other leading cases on judicial review.
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