Ecology Action Centre Society v. Canada (Attorney General), 2001 FCT 1164 (CanLII)

This case was heard in the Federal Court of Canada.

The Ecology Action Centre (“EAC”) filed a motion requesting that its legal proceeding against the federal Crown be managed as a “specially managed proceeding,” and it also requested that the Court compel the Crown to disclose a number of additional documents to the applicants.

The Court held that the proceeding should be managed as a “specially managed proceeding,” but it held that the Crown was not obliged to provide all of the documents that the EAC had requested. The Court ordered the Crown to produce the documents that it was legally obliged to produce, and it dismissed the EAC’s motion concerning the others.

To read related decisions, go to Ecology Action Centre Society v. Canada (Attorney General), 2002 FCT 1309 (CanLII) and Ecology Action Centre Society v. Canada (Attorney General), 2004 FC 1087 (CanLII).

View the Decision on CanLII: https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/doc/2001/2001fct1164/2001fct1164.html

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