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Corrected reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Supreme Court, New Westminster Registry, assessing fault between a pedestrian and a bus driver. In today’s case (Whelan v. BC Transit) the Plaintiff pedestrian “was struck and had his foot run over by a BC Transit bus driven by the defendant Henry Kobbero, after Mr. Whelan [...]... more »
Everyone is watching the mayoralty race in Toronto unfold. Anything involving Rob Ford is scrutinized and reported to great fanfare. The latest topic involve conflict of interest allegations made against Rob Ford. The Globe and Mail reports that Ford’s family business (in which he continues t... more »
By Kelly Laycock “I can’t, um, really define irony, but I know when I see it!” –Winona Ryder’s character, Lelaina Pierce, in Reality Bites (1994) Like Lelaina Pierce, we all have a sense of what irony is, but perhaps we’ve forgotten our grade 10 English lessons and can’t quite reme... more »
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, July 29, 2014:Kansas City lawyer’s blog posts could be an issue in judicial confirmation bidOntario Superior Court Master Richard Peterson mourned Online offer of beer to egg Rob Ford results in criminal chargeToward a... more »
The Ontario Court of Appeal released their decision in Carrigan v. Carrigan Estate (“Carrigan”) on October 31, 2012. Carrigan drastically changed our understanding of the priority scheme for the payment of pre-retirement death benefits to surviving spouses under the Ontario Pension Benefits Ac... more »
The Library of Parliament has recently published a number of legislative summaries describing federal bills:Bill C-17: An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act: "Bill C - 17, an Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act ( alternative title: Protecting Canadians from Unsafe Drugs Act[ Vanessa’s Law ]), was... more »
Meet Gordon Firemark, a lawyer based in California; he deals with entertainment (TV, film, theatre) law transactions and assembles all the paperwork involving business entities and financing. You might have even heard of with his clients as some of them are LA-based indie artists, playwrights, and c... more »
An Ontario court has agreed to hear a Charter challenge brought by Rogers and Telus in response to a police request for "tower dumps" with records on over 40,000 calls or customers. The police subsequently withdrew its request, but the judge has agreed to hear the case in any event, given the import... more »
Yup that was the headline in NYC when Joe Torre first signed up to manage the New York Yankees in 1996! Today, he is being inducted into the Hall of Fame! He joins three great players and two great managers.... more »
On May 15th, Arbitrator Trachuk upheld the discharge of a short service crane operator for posting disparaging and sexually explicit comments about a female coworker on his Facebook. The decision is fact specific and not surprising. Arbitrator Trachuk, however, does make the following statement abou... more »
Often, I write with too many commas. A comma is a beautiful thing, in fact, all punctuation is necessary for readers to understand a piece of text. Just ask the …... more »
The list just keeps on growing, and with these 15 new additions to lawblogs.ca, we’ve hit the 450 blog mark! Here’s a look at some of the blogs that have been added to the Canadian law blogs list since …... more »
The Alberta Provincial Court Civil Division monetary limit has been raised to $50,000 with this regulation amendment. Effective August 1, 2014 a small claim is not so small. more »
If you weren't able to attend this year's CALL conference in Winnipeg (which by all accounts was a big success), the session summaries from the 2014 CALL/ACDB conference are now up - hat tip to Michel-Adrian Sheppard for pointing us to them. Learn about what Greg Lambert of 3 Geeks and a Law Blog ca... more »
Over at Slate they are trying their best to whip up controversy about sappy Young Adult novels. Ruth Graham thinks that ” …you should feel embarrassed when what you’re reading was written for children.” I am amused as I am both a librarian and immersing myself in YA and children&... more »
Canada's anti-spam legislation takes effect this week, sparking panic among many businesses, who fear that sending commercial electronic messages may grind to a halt on July 1st. The reality is far less troubling. The new law creates some technical requirements for commercial email marketing alo... more »
A Private Members Bill was introduced in Canada’s federal parliament yesterday, which, if passed, will result in significant amendments to the official mark provisions in the Trade-marks Act. Section 9(1)(n)(iii) of that Act currently sets out a very simple procedure whereby public author... more »
Post by: Carly Haynes Standard Condominium Plans Our previous blog post offered an introduction to vacant land condominium plans. In this post we will examine standard condominium plans. What is a Standard Condominium Plan? A standard condominium plan is the … Continue reading →... more »
I think a lot about governance in projects I work on: who is going to do what, who is going to oversee it, and how things will be maintained. A big piece of the picture are policies, guidelines and procedures. Without this type of documentation, employees in an organization do not have guidance on h... more »