Escobar v Ocean Pacific Hotels Ltd.

Partners Irwin Nathanson, K.C., Julia Lockhart, and James Parker conducted a two-week common issues trial in a class action proceeding brought by employees of the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver.

NST represented the defendant employer and was successful in obtaining dismissal of the primary claims in the proceeding, which alleged breaches of the duty of good faith and honest performance relying on the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in C.M. Callow Inc. v. Zollinger, 2020 SCC 45. The proceeding is continuing on to individual issues trials.

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