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This digest highlights a recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision where damages were awarded to a partner who was expelled from the partnership in the absence of cause or good faith.

This Emerging Issues Bulletin discusses the escalating threat of fentanyl and W-18, the rise of Internet-based drug importation schemes, and the outcomes of the April 2016 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs

The law requires no specific form of jury instruction warning against the danger of convicting on evidence that had been tracked down by police dogs, according to B.C.’s appellate court.

SCC rules Federal Employers need just cause to terminate non-union employees

Sabbas and Hesquiaht First Nation, Re (2016) 2016 CarswellNat 333 (Can.Adjud.(CLC Part III)) Canada Adjudication (Canada Labour Code Part III)

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

Recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice case in which shares were not included in the division of net family property.

This digest highlights a recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision where the Court concluded that no agency or fiduciary relationship existed between the parties to a contract for service.

McCabe v. Finn Way General Contractor (2016), 2016 ONSC 3483, 2016 CarswellOnt 8208 (Ont. S.C.J.) at para. 2 Kurke J.

Parties had endorsed case management deadlines, and amendments to pleadings would have had negative effect on those timelines.

Ontario court holds smell of alcohol in vehicle gives rise to reasonable suspicion for breath demand

Court holds employee was wrongfully dismissed where employer overreacted and did not have cause to terminate employee without notice.