B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal has awarded $2,897 to a woman evicted from her home after she told her landlords she was pregnant with the male landlord’s child.

In a June 5 decision , tribunal member Peter Nyhuus said MK rented two rooms in a house leased by DW and EF. Nyhuus anonymized the parties’ identities to protect the identity of MK’s non-party minor child.

MK claimed DW and EF wrongfully evicted her and her eight-year-old without reasonable notice when she became pregnant with DW’s child.

MK also claimed DW and EF did not give her reasonable access to pack her belongings, damaged her belongings when they packed for her, and kept certain belongings.

She claimed the value of the missing and damaged items, which she estimated to be about $10,000.

However, Nyhuus said, MK li

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