Mark S. Oulton, K.C.

Practice Details

• Languages
  English
• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Chingee v. British Columbia, 2017 BCCA 250: Mark Oulton represented a timber sale licensee in the Court of Appeal, successfully defending an appeal from a decision summarily dismissing a claim that logging activities carried out under a valid timber sale licence constituted a private nuisance
  /or gave rise to a claim in negligence
  Teal Cedar Products Ltd. v. British Columbia, 2017 SCC 32 (with Michael Stephens
  John Hunter, Q.C.): successfully appealed a decision of the BC Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, thereby restoring an award of compensation, including interest, obtained in an arbitration conducted under the Forestry Revitalization Act.
  

  DNT Contracting Ltd. v. Abraham
  others, 2016 BCSC 1917: Counsel for DNT Contracting Ltd. in successfully obtaining an interim injunction to remove a blockade that was preventing timber harvesting under a timber sale licence located in the northern interior of British Columbia.
  

  Regal Ideas Inc. v. Haus Innovations Inc.
  others., 2016 BCSC 1883: Counsel for Regal Ideas Inc. in successfully obtaining an anton piller order to preserve evidence in a commercial case involving alleged breach of contract
  misuse of confidential
  proprietary information.
  

  British Columbia v. Canadian Forest Products Ltd., 2016 BCSC 1261: Counsel for Canadian Forest Products Ltd. in successfully defending a $5.5 million claim arising out of alleged negligence
  breach of contract relating to a 6,100 hectare wildfire occurring in 2010 near V
  erhoof, BC.
  

  Metropole Enterprises Ltd. v. Metropole Investments Limited Partnership, 2015 BCSC 421: counsel for Metropole Investments Limited Partnership in obtaining a successful result in a commercial rent dispute
  defending an application for leave to appeal the associated arbitration award.
  

  Ross v. British Columbia Lottery Corporation, 2014 BCSC 320 (with K. Michael Stephens
  Brent B. Olthuis): for the British Columbia Lottery Corporation in successfully defending a claim of, among other things, negligence
  breach of contract brought in respect of BCLC’s Voluntary Self-Exclusion Program.
  

  Canadian Forest Products Ltd. v. Sam, 2013 BCCA 58, 2011 BCSC 676: Counsel for Canadian Forest Products Ltd. in successfully appealing an interlocutory injunction obtained by a First Nations group precluding Canfor from harvesting under one of its cutting permits in Northern British Columbia.
  

  British Columbia v. International Forest Products Ltd., 2012 BCSC 746
  Forest Appeals Commission Decision No. 2009: FA - 007 – counsel for Interfor in obtaining
  successfully defending an appeal of a decision of the Forest Appeals Commission setting aside a stumpage determination issued by the Province under the changed circumstance provisions of the Coast Appraisal Manual.
  

  Heli-tech Services (Canada) Ltd. v. Weyerhaeuser Company Limited: 2011 FCA 193, affirming 2009 FC 592 – counsel for three licensees in successfully defending two appeals
  an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada brought from a decision of the Prothonotary striking out certain parts of the Plaintiffs’ claims.