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David G. Myrol reported on a criminal case from Ontario in which a corporation was made vicariously liable for the behaviour of a field level manager.

On November 1, 2018, Bill 113, Police Record Checks Reform Act, 2015[1] (the "Act") will come into effect in Ontario.

After a dramatic and tragic incident in which a large drill rig fell over at York University, fatally injuring a backhoe operator and badly injuring an excavator operator, the company that owned and operated the rig...

A recent Ontario decision dealt with the issue of liability as between two defrauded employers: is a past employer liable to a new employer when a fraudulent employee steals money from the latter to satisfy its debt to the former?

A B.C. ship’s navigator has been sentenced to four years after he was convicted of criminal negligence causing death for dereliction of duty leading to his ship colliding with an island.

On January 11, 2016 an Ontario court imposed the harshest sentence ever for an individual's role in a workplace accident.

Pursuant to Section 347 of the Criminal Code, an effective annual interest rate that exceeds 60% of the total credit advanced under an agreement or arrangement is a criminal rate.

In Teva Canada Ltd. v. TD Canada Trust, the Supreme Court of Canada considered the defence to the tort of conversion under s. 20(5) of the Bills of Exchange Act.

On June 17, 2016, Bill C-14, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying), received Royal Assent.

While this statistic points to the importance of MAID for many Canadians, the new legislation has not settled the ongoing debate concerning the right to die.

On June 12, 2018, the Parliament of Québec passed the Act to constitute the Société québécoise du cannabis, to enact the Cannabis Regulation Act ...

When an entity (Affected Entity) experiences a data breach incident (Breach Incident), it is instantly faced with a number of issues that it must address with urgency.

The Defendant was a dentist who had executed a personal guarantee on July 7, 2011 in favour of the Plaintiff (the "Bank") in order to secure payment of the indebtedness of the Defendant's professional

A recent decision of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the "Commissioner"), finding that analyzing a customer's credit rating does little to help counter insurance fraud...

Heated debate over the future of business-related patents in North America continues. North of the border, innovative businesses await the outcome of argument recently heard by Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal in the Amazon.com appeal, with a decision (and likely an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada) expected within weeks.

Implementation of the enhanced system to combat counterfeiting at the Canadian border continues. On January 1, 2015 provisions came into effect which provide Canada customs authorities with the ability to detain suspected counterfeit or pirated products ..

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline plc announced that its Chinese subsidiary had been found guilty of bribing health officials in the country.