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Your client is the settlor of a family trust, one she claims was intended to be a gift to her children upon the last of the three children attaining the age of 30 years.

You, and a partner, own a business 50 – 50.

The absolute immunity of parties and witnesses from subsequent liability for their testimony in judicial proceedings developed in early English cases and is well established at common law.

The inventory exclusion precludes an insured from proving an employee theft loss solely by reliance on inventory calculations, independent of other proof of actual employee theft.

In Progressive Homes Ltd. v. Lombard General Insurance Co., 2010, S.C.C. 33, the Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled on an insurer’s duty to defend a general contractor in the context of a construction deficiency claim.

A recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision clarifies when employers can claim copyright ownership over work created by employees, revealing that even when an employee secretly builds a competing product while on the payroll, the employer may have no copyright claim if the work falls outside the employee's actual job responsibilities. The ruling underscores critical gaps in employment agreements and highlights five practical steps employers should take to protect their intellectual property rights.

The Federal Court of Canada issued an order compelling Teksaavy Solutions Inc., an ISP, to disclose the names and addresses of approximately 2,000 of its subscribers to Voltage Pictures, LLC.

The Ontario Court of Appeal[1] has now confirmed that claims for contribution and indemnity under section 18 of the Limitations Act, 2002 are subject to discoverability.

The recent Court of Appeal decision in 1785192 Ontario Inc. and 1043303 Ontario Ltd. v. Ontario H Limited Partnership provides useful guidance on the rules around the exercise of options to purchase land where the price...

The word "abatement" when used in the context of "rent" ranks second among the seven deadly words a landlord does not want to hear in a lease negotiation.

We have previously written about the emerging issues of the 2014 Provincial Policy Statement and the creation by the City of Toronto of a Local Appeal Body.

In the recent decision of Starr Insurance Holdings, Inc. v. United States Specialty Insurance Company, the Supreme Court of the State of New York held that the termination condition applied...

"Estate trustee" is the term used in Ontario to refer to an executor or administrator of a deceased individual's estate.

On April 20, 2017, the Ontario Government announced plans to impose a 15% tax on foreign nationals, in order to cool the real estate market in the Greater Toronto Area.

Following are the summaries for this week's civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario

On March 16, 2020, the Ontario government made the unprecedented decision to largely close the court system in Ontario in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Public benefit corporations are attracting increasing attention in Canada and have been established in more than 20 states in the United States.