Check out this post about guns in the workplace (parking lot) and this post. Other than if you were a police person or some other law enforcement type, I can’t possibly imagine what reason you could have for bringing a gun to your workplace much less the shopping mall, even if you were leaving it […]
Injunctions are a very useful tool to put a stop to an illegal activity or contravention of a Court order. Generally the resulting order prohibits an individual from acting in a particular manner, attending at a geographical location, and so on an so forth. Some injunctions prevent a person from saying something or conveying some […]
How do you prove what a municipal council had in mind when passing a bylaw? See Victoria (City) v. Adams, 2008 BCSC 1209, for a brief summary of law concerning the admissibility of various documents as legislative facts. In this case the argument appears to be more about butting heads than anything else, but having […]
Taxes are one of the matters that employers and employees often don’t consider upon termination. There are some exceptions to the rule, but generally, Ottawa considers money paid to an employee upon dismissal to be a retirement allowance. Someone has to pay tax on it. As an employer you must be careful to withhold sufficient […]
Here is a little case about wedding photography gone bad. There are several take home lessons to derive from this simple and well written judgment including don’t rely on a hard drive for storing precious items and pay your wedding photographer the balance due on time. More importantly, Justice Williamson provides one or two very […]