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Recent decision in which a father was denied damages for non-pathological emotional harm caused by unplanned fatherhood.

Failure of car's emergency brake not in control of defendant, didn't constitute negligence.

The appellant submits that the respondent has been unjustly enriched.

This post summarizes an employment case in which the employer was held to a unilateral change it had made to the employment contract

Despite s. 39 of the Youth Criminal Justice Act¸ the Provincial Court of British Columbia imposed a custodial sentence of 16 months on a young offender who harassed women with threats of doxing, or publishing their identifiable personal information on the Internet.

Breaking Bad, meet Breaking Bad Parents.

Recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in which gifted money placed in a joint account was excluded from net family property.

Why do written costs submissions frequently try to lead us into some sort of parallel universe where losers are actually winners? If you lost, don't re-write the facts to argue that you won.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice approves a key employee retention plan and grants a sealing order, denying a request to disclose the compensation information and terms of individual contracts.

Between conviction and sentencing of the accused, the release of a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision amounted to a fundamental restatement of the law that created a rebuttable presumption where no defence had previously existed – although new arguments on appeal were generally prohibited, the appellate court overturned the accused’s conviction and ordered a new trial.

R. v. InfoSpec Systems Inc. | 2013 CarswellBC 2145 | British Columbia Court of Appeal

There's an old saying: "Two Heads Are Better Than One".