t this time of year, a number of businesses entertain their customers, clients and employees at a seasonal party. On some occasions, the party is held onsite.

While dogs are often considered man's best friend, they can sometimes be a menace.

In Treat Canada Ltd. v. Leonidas, [2012] O.J. No. 5551, the Ontario Court of Appeal considered the jeopardy to the privilege against self-incrimination in an appeal from an Ontario order enforcing a letter of request for international judicial assistance issued to the plaintiff in a U.S. class action.

A summary of Lerners' Top 5 Ontario civil appeals decisions from April, 2013.

Determining whether or not you have to pay Harmonized Sales Tax ("HST") during a real estate transaction can be a tricky situation.

While it may seem an odd result at first blush, the recent decision of the Court of Appeal clearly explains how this was one of the possible appropriate outcomes.

Corporations Canada, which oversees the creation and compliance of federal corporations, including not-for-profit corporations (NPC) incorporated under the Canada Not-for-Profit...

The Ontario Superior Court's decision in Hannan v. Scouts Canada, 2024 ONSC 5361 marks a significant development in the legal framework governing volunteer relationships within non-profit organizations.

If you lend money to your company – take security!

As a more convenient and less expensive place to conduct an arbitration than many of the world’s more traditional arbitration centres, Toronto is quickly gaining recognition as one of the best places to arbitrate commercial disputes.

Constructive dismissal occurs where an employee resigns, but the departure is treated in law as if there was a dismissal by the employer.

When my partner and I found out that we were expecting a baby, we sat down for a discussion about how long we would take off work. We're both professionals working demanding jobs...

Lawyers are accustomed to treating a party's right to be present at the other party's examination for discovery and to conduct oral examination of the opposing party as inviolable.

A motion for security for costs has potential to cause trouble for an employee, and can offer many benefits to a defendant, in the right circumstances.

I recently finished season 3 of ‘Emily in Paris,' the Netflix series about an American marketing executive living as an ex-pat in the City of Lights.

As our firm prepared to create the 2024 Black History Month committee, I reflected on my thoughts, interactions and the messages I felt were not effectively...

Employment agreements are often treated as risk management tools. Employers rely on them to set workplace expectations and limit liability on termination. But an agreement only serves that purpose if it actually survives judicial scrutiny, and for the past few years, termination clause litigation in Ontario has increasingly turned on whether a court can find some theoretical reading of a clause that would violate the Employment Standards Act, 2000 ("ESA"), even where that plainly is not what the parties meant.

Last year, I published a case commentary on Huang v. Fraser Hillary's Limited, 2017 ONSC 1500 regarding how s.99(2) of Ontario's Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990...

As a general rule, the Estate Trustee is given one year to administer an Estate, including to distribute money from the Estate to the beneficiaries (this is called the "executor's year").

In a recent decision, Vyazemskaya v. Safin, the Court of Appeal for Ontario grappled with the complex issue of recognizing a foreign divorce in Canada and its implications on spousal support entitlements.