Jonathan’s Jots

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 for a criminal contempt of court is up to a

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 your life before receiving provable explicit permission are at risk

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 and the other being libel. Slander is spoken, and libel

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 out West and that arrangements had been made to have

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 annotations- but, I digress. There are some special rules governing

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 the impugned worker conduct does not merit a just cause