Courts get tougher on partisan experts
The court refused to accept him as an expert. There was no doubt that he had genuine accounting expertise, but he lacked the critical element of impartiality.
Continue reading the post titled Courts get tougher on partisan expertsJail for white collar environmental crimes
Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co. has been fined $8 million for environmental and health and safety offences. Four of its senior managers have been sent to jail. Could it happen in Canada?
Continue reading the post titled Jail for white collar environmental crimesOBA recommendations on Green Energy Act
OBA's most important recommendation for amending the Green Energy Act: Provide how land-use and common law conflicts with approved renewable energy projects should be resolved; don’t leave this to the courts. Why encourage proponents to build a renewable energy project that the courts might shut down as a nuisance?
Continue reading the post titled OBA recommendations on Green Energy ActManitoba flood of the century, again
Due to climate change, spring on the prairies will come faster and warmer, causing a higher percentage of snow melt in a shorter period of time.
Continue reading the post titled Manitoba flood of the century, againNTREE Reality Check on Climate Change
The National Round Table on Environment and Economy today issued an refreshingly hardheaded report: Getting to 2050: Canada’s Transition to a Low-emission Future. The report is a rebuke and a challenge to the absence of federal leadership on climate change, and to our failure to take concrete action. The report correctly insists that Canada’s climate...
Continue reading the post titled NTREE Reality Check on Climate ChangeBrownfields Progress?
This week, Ontario’s Brownfields Stakeholder Group was delighted to hear that progress is being made on some old problems. For example: 1. Escheats: When a company is dissolved, its remaining assets go automatically to the Crown. As a result, the province ends up (without its knowledge) owning land all across the province, much of it...
Continue reading the post titled Brownfields Progress?How Should Employers Address Workplace Sexual Harassment?
Sexual harassment is front and centre in the news these days. That means your employees are thinking about it, talking about it, and maybe considering the merits of filing a complaint. While this might make for a stressful and potentially expensive time for employers, there are ways to limit your liability. Here’s a great summary by...
Continue reading the post titled How Should Employers Address Workplace Sexual Harassment?My first trial, still good law 30 years later
The first decade of Dianne Saxe’s professional life was devoted to energy/transportation policy and regulation, not litigation. So this week is the thirtieth anniversary of her first litigation victory: Public Trustee v. Mortimer et al. At the time, I represented the office of the Public Trustee. I was seeking to recover $200,000 that a lawyer had stolen from an...
Continue reading the post titled My first trial, still good law 30 years laterA Break for Employers on Termination Clauses
Finally! The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a termination clause in an employment contract that did NOT reference benefit continuation (when indeed there were benefits) or severance (when the employer had a payroll of $2.5 million or more and the employee qualified for the severance payment under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 – “ESA”). As...
Continue reading the post titled A Break for Employers on Termination ClausesParking pad to garden — how hard could it be?
Franke James eventually got Toronto's first permit for a "green" driveway.
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