You had a job. Now you don’t. How are you going to pay your mortgage and support your family? How will you deal with prospective employers so that you can get back onto our feet. Employers in Canada can terminate your employment. If you have misconducted yourself in a significant way then your employer can […]
Paquette v. School District No. 36 (Surrey), 2014 BCSC 205 deals with a child climbing onto and falling off of a school building roof. So every adult knows that kids will climb up roofs an every child knows that they shouldn’t do it. Should the school really be 75% liable? I wonder what happened to […]
Royal Bank of Canada v. Roberts, allows that a general denial in a response to a civil claim may be insufficient to maintain the response on a dismissal application.
B.C./Yukon Association of Drug War Survivors v. Abbotsford (City), sees the City of Abbotsford having to continue dealing with the Jubilee Park homelessness issue. The Association’s claim was not dismissed.
Burnaby (City) v. Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC, concerns some of the machinations underlying the Burnaby pipeline project. In this particular case the City of Burnaby applied to the Courts, outside of the National Energy Board process already underway, for an injunction. The court took the position that the National Energy Board has jurisdiction and that […]