B.C. Hells Angels want Canada’s Supreme Court to review clubhouse forfeiture ruling
B.C. Hells Angels are asking the Supreme Court of Canada to review a February appeal court ruling that handed the provincial government three of the biker gang’s clubhouses.
On Monday, lawyers for Angel Acres and Festivals, as well as the other individual Hells Angels who lost the B.C. Court of Appeal decision two months ago, filed an application in Ottawa seeking leave to appeal the Feb. 15 ruling.
The leave application was filed at noon Pacific time, according to a Supreme Court registry clerk — exactly 60 days after B.C.’s highest court ordered the clubhouses in East Vancouver, Kelowna and Nanaimo forfeited.
Canada’s highest court must first agree to hear an appeal by a party before the matter proceeds further. Of the 600 applications for leave the court gets each year, only 80 are granted.
Last Friday, representatives of the B.C. Civil Forfeiture Office entered the three buildings at 3598 East Georgia St. in Vancouver, 837 Ellis St. in Kelowna, and 805 Victoria Rd. in Nanaimo to change the locks and do inventory inside.
