Constructive dismissal and Covid

Now that the Ontario Court of Appeal decided the one outlier Taylor case on procedural, versus substantive, grounds, we are left with a landscape whether there are three or four decisions saying ” a lay off remains a constructive dismissal at common law” and one case going the other way.   With a two year […]

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

It is rare in criminal law to see a 9-0 ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada. That court issued such a criminal ruling recently regarding parole eligibility criteria for multiple murder convicts. The essentially ruled against “stacking” so that there was no real effect on parole from multiple murders, as compared to a single […]