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Digest of the Week | Financial Disclosure

Recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice case in which the husband’s pleadings were struck for failure to provide full financial disclosure.

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Legal Wit — Disclosure

  If people put as much effort into making disclosure as they do preparing costs submissions — perhaps they could have avoided having to make cost submissions.

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Digest of the Week - Promised Utility

This digest highlights a recent Federal Court decision where the Court dismissed an application to prohibit issuance of a Notice of Compliance because the applicant failed to establish that promised utility of untested compounds would have been soundly predicted by a person of skill.

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Sample Legal Memo | Breath Sample Demands

This sample legal memo discusses how long "as soon as practicable" is within the meaning s.254(3).

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Digest of the Week | Default Proceedings

Based on findings that defendant had knowledge of the action against them, motion judge properly dismissed application to set aside default judgment.

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Word of the Week | Successful Party

Litt v. Gill (2016), 2016 CarswellBC 1817, 2016 BCCA 288 (B.C. C.A.) at para. 53 Garson J.A. (Saunders and Fitch JJ.A. concurring)

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Recent decision in which the judge appointed a litigation guardian to represent the interests of a transgender child.

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The context of employment is relevant to the determination of whether an employer had just cause to dismiss the employee

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Certainteed Gypsum Canada Inc. and Unifor, Local 591-G (UP-1), Re (2015) [2015] O.L.A.A. No. 95, 2015 CarswellOnt 3639 Ontario Arbitration

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Ostere v. Harding | 2016 CarswellBC 1261 | British Columbia Supreme Court

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Recent Ontario Court of Appeal case in the wife was not entitled to share in the husband’s post-separation income increases.

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This post gives an overview of the criminal law procedure involved in arrests, including a definition of the term, notice required, arrest without a warrant, and the powers of a peace officer incidental to arrest.

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