Jonathan’s Jots

As often is the case, an unfortunate event has lead to some clarity of the law. In a recent case called Wilks, the defendant owned a Great Dane dog. The defendant asked a friend to walk the dog, and the friend complied. Unfortunately, the dog had a seizure during 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.” This meant that the shareholders or bondholders did not have

Another municipality has lost a wind fight. The City of Kiwartha lakes was dealing with a wind turbine project. The project backers had completed all the necessary permits with the province and their site plan was dependent on creating an access road, where there was simply an old unopened road

The courts have always been loathe to convict someone from self incrimination until they can be satisfied that things were done fairly- that is why confessions cannot be accepted into court evidence until they have been proven to be truly “voluntary.”   What about acts instead of words? I have

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 type and license number to the police   The police

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 to “make waves.” A Quebec Human Rights Tribunal recently disciplined