Crisis at Rogers: Court left to decide which RCI board stands

By Amanda OYE

VANCOUVER – The ongoing Rogers family battle made its way into a Vancouver courtroom of the British Columbia Supreme Court Monday when lawyers for Edward Rogers, chair of the Rogers Control Trust, and Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) laid out their arguments before Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick. At issue before the court is whether Mr. Rogers, the petitioner in this case, has the power as chair of the Rogers Control Trust to make changes to RCI’s board of directors by consent resolution rather than at a shareholder meeting. Mr. Rogers’s lawyer Kenneth McEwan told the court the matter at hand is “a...