Is a landlord permitted to continue to claim the deposit of a tenant’s security deposit?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Parmar v Riis, 2020 SKORT 844 (CanLII):
In Reid-Woodson v. Turcotte, 2012 SKQB 314, Foley J. addressed the provisions of the Act dealing with the handling of the security deposit and concluded that where “the landlord has not complied with his mandatory statutory obligations, the legislature has removed the landlord’s right to a continued claim of the tenant’s deposit. The legislation does not prevent the landlord from subsequently advancing a claim for damages. It simply removed his right to hold the deposit as security.”
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