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Legislative security guard dismissals remained reviewable under ordinary labour law.
Appeal from a labour arbitration ruling concerning dismissals of legislative security guards and claimed parliamentary privilege over employee management and exclusion of strangers.
The majority held the claimed immunity from external labour review was not shown to be necessary to the legislature’s constitutional functions, so the grievances could proceed.
A concurring set of reasons found the governing provincial statute dispositive because the legislature had subjected employee management to that regime absent a derogation.
The dissent would have found privilege established and would have barred arbitral jurisdiction.
Contempt appeal failed because knowledge of the specific order was not proven.
On a private contempt proceeding arising from student strike injunctions, the Court addressed strict procedural and substantive safeguards required before liberty-limiting sanctions may be imposed.
The majority held that contempt notice must clearly identify the alleged offence and that knowledge and intent requirements must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt for the branch relied upon.
On the evidentiary record, the moving party failed to prove actual or inferred knowledge of the specific order and could not sustain liability under the advanced theory.
The acquittal entered by the provincial appellate court was upheld.
