The Court of Appeal has overturned a ruling that allowed the Hells Angels to keep its clubhouses in Nanaimo, East Vancouver and Kelowna.
VANCOUVER — B.C.’s highest court has ordered the government seizure of three Hells Angels clubhouses, agreeing with the director of civil forfeiture that the properties would likely be used in future for criminal activity.
Davies “also committed palpable and overriding errors of fact in declining to draw inferences clearly supported by the record,” the three judges said in their 332-page ruling. And the judges said that the clubhouses “were likely to be used in a way that enhanced or facilitated the engagement by members of the relevant chapters in unlawful activity.”
The B.C. government filed an appeal that was heard in June 2022. The director’s lawyer, Brent Olthuis, told Newberry, Grauer and Marchand that there are grounds to reverse Davies’ findings and simply order the properties in East Vancouver, Nanaimo and Kelowna be forfeited to the government without a costly second trial.
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