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- Complainant’s Use of AI In Human Rights Submissions Backfires
Huggins v. Huggins, 2026 HRTO 463 is a recent decision from the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) regarding a Request for Reconsideration (the “Request”) of an earlier Tribunal decision (the “Decision”). In the Decision the Tribunal dismissed an application alleging the Respondents ha … Read more »
- Employer Fails to Establish Copyright Over Employee’s Creation
Nexus Solutions Inc. v. Krougly, 2026 ONCA 199 is a recent decision from the Ontario Court of Appeal interpreting s. 13(3) of the Copyright Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-42 (the “Act”), about the circumstances in which an employer will be the first owner of the copyright in a work created by an employee. T … Read more »
- Employer Failure to Inquire After Hypomanic Resignation = Discrimination
In Volpi v Lifemark Health Corp, 2026 AHRC 26, the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal found that an employer had discriminated against one of its employees by accepting the employee’s resignation without inquiring into the same, notwithstanding that the employer knew, or ought to have known, that the r … Read more »
- King’s Bench Gives School On Injunction and Fiduciary Breach
In Intellimedia Limited Partnership v Jawad, 2026 ABKB 247 (Marion, J), the Alberta Court of King’s Bench ordered an interlocutory injunction to enforce a non-competition clause contained in a purchase agreement. This case is important because of its depth of analysis of the law and the applicatio … Read more »
- SKCA Addresses Test for Resignation, Mitigation and Deductibility of Disability
Korpan Tractor and Parts (Parriwi Management Inc.) v Denton, 2026 SKCA 44, addresses four principles of interest in employment law: Â (1) the test for determining whether an employee has resigned, (2) the test for abandonment of employment, particularly in the context of medical leave, (3) the appli … Read more »