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Pregnant Employee Has Right to Withdraw From Unsafe Work No Matter Employment...
Pregnant casual or temporary workers in Quebec have the right to withdraw from unsafe work environments just as permanent workers do, according to the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in Dionne...
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Search Warrants for Electronic Records
Speaking of media neutrality … a US judge has ruled that a search warrant served on Microsoft in the US required the company to divulge records stored on servers outside the US. An account of the...
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Update: Court of Appeal Rules Property Management Company Still Barred From...
About a year ago I wrote a post about a case where the Ontario Superior Court issued a permanent injunction preventing the owner of a property management company from appearing before the Ontario...
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Neighbours From Hell – Marcel Proust to Ed Morgan via the Carlisle
Three delightful legal curios remind us that when neighbours fall out, balance and judgment cascade out the window – or are defenestrated. Let’s start with Monsieur Proust – who was sensitive beyond...
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Court of Appeal Unable to Review Lower Decision – Forced to Grant Appeal
In an unusual case, the Court of Appeal has granted the Appeal brought by the Defendants due to the fact that the inadequacy of the endorsement of the motion judge rendered the Court of Appeal unable...
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Federal Court of Appeal Rulings on Landmark Family Status Cases
On May 2, 2014, the Federal Court of Appeal released its long-awaited decisions in Canada (Attorney General) v. Johnstone, 2014 FCA 110 (CanLII) and Canadian National Railway Company v. Seeley, 2014...
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Officers of the Worker and Employer Advisers Who Give Legal Advice Must Be...
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled that employees of Ontario’s Office of the Worker Adviser and Office of the Employer Adviser who provide legal services relating to the Occupational...
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Have You Notified Your Insurer?
Manitoba lawyers recently received a memo from the Law Society’s Insurance Department reminding them that it’s time to pay their 2014/15 liability insurance premium. That memo also contains the annual...
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Employment Law and First Nation Band
In Canada, jurisdiction over employment law is normally within the authority of each province or territory, unless the employer or activity falls under the federal jurisdiction. This is a...
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The Duty Not to Find …
On the heels of the European Court of Justice’s decision (discussed on Slaw) to require Google to suppress links to particular web sites that had ‘irrelevant and outdated’ personal information about a...
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