"This case is about whether the Minister of Natural Resources can effect an expropriation from a minority joint-venturer, the respondent, in order to prefer the exclusive interest of the majority joint-venturer, the applicant, to it's own benefit, without just and public provenspecific cause upon hearing"

Exactly Laura Brown! This is and has always been the center of the issue. KWG barely and simply cannot grant an easement to a majority partner who would use the claims for developping its own property while deliberately letting his minority partner dry to death on the near side property! This would be equivalent to an indirect hostile expropriation. AnKWG did not initiate the judicial process. Cliffs did actually, losing the first round and winning the second. The third may well getting them back to square one... The attorneys behind KWG are very good ones and the higher Court could bite at the 'disguised expropriation coup' argument which is per se what it is! GLTA.