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Medical marijuana company ordered to vacate Central Saanich property for a second time

Evergreen Medicinal Supply Inc. must vacate no later than Jan. 31, 2020
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Evergreen Medicinal Supply Inc. operates this marijuana growing facility in Central Saanich. (Black Press Media file photo)

A medicinal marijuana producer has been ordered BԪַ once again BԪַ to vacate a property in Central Saanich by a judge.

On Dec. 23, Evergreen Medicinal Supply Inc. was ordered by B.C. Court of Appeal Justice Joyce DeWitt-Van Oosten to vacate the bunker-like facility near MichellBԪַs Farm, which is used to grow cannabis, by Jan. 31, 2020. This comes after Evergreen was already ordered to vacate by Aug. 31 by a Supreme Court Justice back in July.

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The lengthy court battle between Evergreen and Phillip Illingworth, the property owner, dates back to 2017 and has seen multiple petitions filed by Illingworth asking for a declaration that Evergreen is wrongfully in possession of the land and premises.

In the latest turn of events, Evergreen filed a notice of appeal on Aug. 28 BԪַ four days before they were ordered to leave. The appeal claimed a number of errors made by the chambers judge, including that there was an abuse of power during the second petition and in determining the end date of the lease.

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On Sept. 21, 2013, Illingworth and EvergreenBԪַs director, Shaw Galbraith, signed a lease that Illingworth had prepared using a template from a different business context. Neither of the parties had a lawyer review the document before they signed it.

The lease contained a mistake. The lease states the duration of the lease would be a period of five years commencing on Jan. 1, 2014 and ending on Dec. 31, 2019. But, thatBԪַs actually six years, not five.

DeWitt-Van Oosten stated that the initial judge did not err in determining the end date of the lease and stated that there was BԪַa rational basisBԪַ for the judge to conclude the reference to 2019 in the lease were errors. DeWitt-Van Oosten dismissed EvergreenBԪַs three other reasons for the appeal and ordered the company to vacate the property no later than the end of January.



kendra.crighton@blackpress.ca

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