Litigation

Increasingly businesses (and employers) and public organizations deploy and use ever-improving surveillance technology, including workplace audio and video recording.  Ontario law has remained vigilant and watchful, attempting to balance legitimately-held privacy expectations for everyone against unreasonably invasive privacy intrusion, particularly to foster security, safety and legitimate business or public interests.   In an important, recent […]

Increasingly maligned victims on social media resort to the Court for redress. The Court is becoming more intolerant of defamatory conduct online, to the extent that significant damages may be ordered against the traducing party. No longer does the Internet shield against vilifying another online.     There have been several notable cases. For example, fairly

Rogers Media Inc. (Rogers) recently paid $200,000 as part of a settlement involving the CRTC for Rogers alleged violations of Canadas anti-spam legislation (CASL). The CASL requirements about Commercial Electronic Messages (CEMs) have been the law since July 1, 2014. Rogers is not the first to be fined. Porter Airlines paid a significant penalty earlier

You just bought a new house. When you bought it, you likely purchased title insurance. Most do, these days. Title insurance policies in Ontario are extensively used for home buying, but the law has not kept pace on these types of policies, what they mean, what they actually cover, and the like. There is a

Often an elderly person, or person who is in need of some financial management assistance, adds an adult child or family member to a pre-existing bank account, making it a joint bank account. Commonly there is no paperwork made when this is done, such as the elderly person indicating, in writing, whether: –     the

Suing a deep-pocketed defendant can be problematic from a litigation funding angle. An emerging trend in other countries is funding by a third party to finance the litigation, if the litigation is meritorious. This ‘level-the-playing-field’, access-to-justice-premised emergence is finding its way into Ontario law. There are both proponents and those who are critical of this

Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow……What am I obliged to do, as a homeowner, for snow and ice? In Ontario, homeowners have a a duty to keep their property reasonably safe for others. Section 3 of the Occupiers Liability Act (Ontario) reads: 3. (1) An occupier of premises owes a duty to