Selling Your Business – Five Tips for First Timers
If you are like most successful family or private business owners, you have worked hard, experienced highs and lows over the years and learned many ... Continued
What Obligations are Owed by a Testator to a Deceased Person’s Estate?
In the Court’s determination of a wills variation claim and what is “adequate, just and equitable”, the Court will consider legal and moral obligations owed ... Continued
Assignment Collection and Filing Obligations
Any developer that enters into a presale purchase agreement in respect of “development property” is obligated to file with the CSAIR a report within 30 ... Continued
A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
The Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision in Jarvis provides a new framework for determining whether an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Although ... Continued
Did you notice? When a notice is not a notice under the Notice and Notice regime.
Introduction – the monkey in the middle The Notice and Notice regime under the Canadian Copyright Act is a made-in-Canada solution to a particular problem, ... Continued
Learning from Serial Litigants – Part 2
In Part 1 of our series on serial student litigants (which can be found here), we discussed two recent decisions of the BC Supreme Court ... Continued
Canada to Regulate Crypto-Asset Trading Platforms
On March 14, 2019, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) published the consultation paper Joint Canadian Securities Administrators/Investment ... Continued
Ending the “Marriage-Like” Relationship?
In a recent decision, Mother 1 v. Solus Trust Company, 2019 BCSC 200, Justice Myers questioned the relevance of the term “marriage-like relationship”, a central ... Continued
Options for Business Owners
In my role as a lawyer, I help business owners transition their businesses to new owners so they can move on to the next stage ... Continued
Resulting and Constructive Trusts: A Question of Intention
Two recent decisions from the Supreme Court of British Columbia illustrate the importance, and difficulty, of determining the intentions someone who transfers property when ownership ... Continued
The Pre-Closing Brief: What You Need to Know About Closing Your Transaction
To a lawyer, a business sale or acquisition is usually a familiar series of steps – negotiate, review, revise, deliver, close. Rinse and repeat. While ... Continued
Uber not in the driver’s seat when it comes to arbitration clause
The Ontario Court of Appeal recently invalidated a mediation/arbitration clause used by Uber in its standard form driver’s contract. The driver in this case had ... Continued