Jonathan in Pitblado Law's segment of the Hyde Park BIA's commercial You may have seen us on TV lately! We wanted to share our feature in a collaborative commercial that was put together by our local Business Improvement Association, the…
For almost 20 years now, pursuant to a 1998 Supreme Court case, auditors have been largely shielded from liability for their work, if their corporate client goes bust because of fraud. The reason is an old doctrine called "privity of contract."…
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal just dealt with an interesting impaired driving/over 80 case. There was a very minor fender bender while cars were parking. A witness thought one of the drivers was impaired and called in the vehicle…
Governments, at the behest of "progressive forces" years ago, created Human Rights Tribunals in each of the provinces. There is even a federal one, which is restricted to matters of federal law. They seem to love their authority and ability…
Some of you may know that there exists a criminal law contempt of court concept. In addition, there is a civil law (party v party law, as compared to government against citizen criminal law) contempt of court concept. The punishment…
Our provincial legislature, ever conscious of the "woman's vote" has amended the limitations act to eliminate any limitation period for lawsuits alleging sexual assault. Thus, those of you males who went to any base, being 1st, second, third or fourth, anytime in…
From time to time, I get hired to pursue defamation claims. For some reason it seems to happen in London and in Sarnia of all places. Defamation is a broad term, which includes two strands of law, one being slander…
In a criminal trial, it is possible to have a witness testify via video link. The court in Walkerton recently took some time to consider this issue. The Crown put forward some evidence that an important civilian Crown witness lived…
Lawsuits are governed, procedurally, by the "rules of civil procedure." These rules are in large hard bound books, with the accompanying forms in a companion soft cover addition. The reason the books are so large, is that they contain case precedent…
Fixed term employment contracts have become quite popular these days, given the fluidity inherent in the modern labour market. These will often have "termination for just cause" provisions and or damage limitation clauses. Often, however, the courts will find that…