Landslide Fallout Continues
- kc dyer
- Apr 22
- 1 min read
Updated: May 4
Civil action filed in BC Court
The Village of Lions Bay has been named as a defendant in a civil action related to last December’s deadly Battani Creek landslide.
Other defendants identified in the action filed last week in BC Supreme Court are the province of British Columbia and Steven Vestergaard, the owner of the property located above the landslide area on which a water reservoir had been built.
The suit was filed on behalf of Michael Enns and Jody Dyer, the children of Barbara and David Enns who died when their house was swept away by the slide; as well as Fiona and Raymond Fourie, Michelle Medland and Sean Barry, the couples who own and reside in the two remaining houses above the bridge on Crystal Falls Road.
This month's regular meeting of Lions Bay Council on April 15 was pre-empted by a closed meeting, which was justified in the agenda as being due to "litigation or potential litigation affecting the municipality". The civil action was filed on April 16.
No further comment has been offered by any of the parties involved.
Council will hold a special meeting, scheduled on April 23 at 6:00 p.m.
Editor's note: Please note that contrary to an earlier posting, The Village of Lions Bay, the Province of BC and Steve Vestergaard are defendants in this action.
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Is Lions Bay, together with the Province etc., one of the plaintiffs or, more likely, one of the defendants in this action? A defendant would make more sense seeing as the action has been brought by the family of the deceased, but you never know I guess.