When appealing a decision of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, litigants must be mindful of timing to appeal. If you miss the...

Solicitor Client Privilege means that information shared with a lawyer by a client cannot be shared (except for in certain situations),...

Employment law cases often have a sudden start. Firings often happen without warning. And the most common tactic used by employers is a...

We often come across clients who have previously entered into settlement agreements, and we are often asked are they binding? Sometimes....

The Court in Business Development Bank v 1956680 Alberta Inc, 2021 ABQB 141 described the plea of non est factum. The plea of non est...

In order to have an enforceable contract, one of the elements required is consideration. Consideration is often thought of as something...

In lawsuits in Alberta, the losing party pays a substantial amount of costs to the winner of the lawsuit. The Alberta Court of Appeal...

People tend to be familiar with the term "common law partner" or "common law spouse", however the concept of common law is much broader....

As we have touched on previously, part of what our law firm ends up doing is reviewing contracts that employees have agreed upon. Here...

In certain cases, the courts will order a losing party in a lawsuit to pay enhanced costs for wrongly alleging fraud. The court looked at...

The Alberta Court of Queen's Bench, reviewing the decision of an arbitrator had a good discussion of fundamental breach in a contract. In...

If an employer can prove cause when firing an employee, the employer can be relieved of obligations to pay severance or pay in lieu of...

The case of Haack v Secure Energy (Drilling Services) Inc, 2021 ABQB 82 had a good discussion of what courts look for in Shareholder...

One way that an employer can go about proving cause is if the employer is able to prove that the employee is incompetent in their duties....

In most cases that an employer terminates an employee in Alberta, it is done without cause, and depending on the contract, pay in lieu of...

If you have ever wandered into a store filled with rows of breakable glassware with young children in tow, you understand what anxiety...

The Alberta Court of Appeal came out with a case which analyzed the concept of interprovincial crown immunity: Fitter International Inc v...

A Constructive Dismissal happens when an employer makes a major change to a key part of the employment contract. In that case the...

The Supreme Court of Canada recently developed the law regarding good faith in the case of Wastech Services Ltd. v. Greater Vancouver...

It is common for disputes between co-owners in businesses to escalate. Sometimes this even leads to one of the co-owners unilaterally...