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Defendants' failure to advise plaintiff of significant legal risks in pursuing plan fell squarely within exception of failure to warn where duty to warn was clear, and expert evidence of solicitor's negligence was not required

Based on consensus of opinion of medical experts and witnesses, which was not contradicted by other medical experts, applicant did not have requisite capacity to marry respondent after accident

Claimant, employed for over 14 years by series of associated companies, was terminated and offered eight weeks' working notice of termination

Motion judge found that appellant did not have standing before court as result of his non-compliance with earlier order

Plaintiff brought action to challenge validity of will and marriage on grounds that deceased did not have capacity

The concept of “reasonable notice” takes into both the implied understanding at the outset of the employment, as modified by years of service, promotions, and other factors, as well as the actual circumstances existing at the time of termination.

PREVOST v. PREVOST (2017), 2017 CarswellOnt 15252, 2017 ONSC 5825 (Ont. S.C.J.)

Employee signed a release which was effective to bar a complaint of bullying and intimidation that was personal to the employee and which occurred in the past

Depriving otherwise successful party of costs was one way to discourage behaviour

Testator died while SC continued to reside with mother, remaining dependent while receiving disability support payments

Girls Make Games debut in Canada at the Thomson Reuters Customer Centre in Toronto. Learn more about the event.

The Hon. René Marin discusses two recent SCC cases on text messages in the upcoming release of Admissibility of Statements, 9th edition