Tuesday, August 28, 2018
As I’ve written previously, everyone should have a Will in place, ideally a Will drafted by a lawyer.Having your Will prepared by a lawyer helps ensure that it is executed properly and that it doesn’t contain any confusing ambiguities, attempt…
Friday, August 24, 2018
One of the most-publicized law changes in recent memory, on October 17, Parliament enacted Bill C-45, which decriminalized the smoking of marijuana and the ingestion of marijuana food products. To help clients get prepared, the Employment Law Group held a…
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
When great experts are sitting in the next office over, it makes it easier to build successful real estate and business deals. Soloway Wright lawyers Terilynn Anderson and Daniel Coderre, and Commercial Real Estate Clerk Gayle Herman recently teamed up to help…
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Statutory Termination and Severance Pay not to be Reduced by Mitigation Income Earned; Mitigation Expenses Recoverable by Dismissed Employee This June, the Ontario Superior Court released a decision (Robinson v H.J. Heinz Company of Canada LP, 2018 ONSC 3424) that…
Monday, April 2, 2018
Accommodating employee scheduling conflicts is becoming an ever-increasing burden on employers and their HR staff. This trend is not likely to slow down and will likely only increase in the years ahead. Fewer and fewer employees now have stay-at-home spouses…
Thursday, March 1, 2018
This past February, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released an important and, to some employers, rather surprising decision, shedding new light on when employees are entitled to refuse offers of continued employment, following the sale of their employer’s business.…
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Following up on the article Probate Issue: The Lost Will, there has been a recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Ottawa on this very point - Levitz v. Hillel Lodge Long Term Care Foundation. In Levitz, an…
Thursday, October 26, 2017
In the “typical” estate administration file, locating the original Will of the deceased is not difficult.Often this is because the lawyer who drafted the Will holds the document for safekeeping in his or her vault. There are a few reasons…
Friday, September 1, 2017
An important decision was released during May in Ottawa-based lawsuit Bottiglia v Ottawa Catholic School Board, 2017 ONSC 2517, this time favourable to employers, on the issue of when an employer is entitled to insist that its disabled employees submit…
Sunday, June 11, 2017
In my last entry, I wrote about a common question for a Wills lawyer: “Should I have a Will?” A frequent follow-up to that question is “Well, do I need a lawyer to prepare my Will?” My answer: “Technically, no. But you…
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