Advocate Role Includes Reigning in Over-zealousness On The Bench
Siskinds franchise lawyer, Peter Dillon was recently interviewed by Law Times regarding the recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision Stuart Budd & Sons Ltd. v. IFS Vehicle Distributors ULC. To read about this decision and other comments by Peter Dillon, see the AdvocateDaily.com article below. Advocate Role Includes Reigning in Over-zealousness On The Bench By...
Continue reading the post titled Advocate Role Includes Reigning in Over-zealousness On The BenchWelcome to the Siskinds Team
The entire team at Siskinds LLP is looking forward to welcoming Paula and Kirsten into our municipal and environmental practice group. Paula and Kirsten will be based out of Siskinds Toronto office. Having lived in Toronto for more than twenty years and having started my legal career at a Bay Street law firm, I am...
Continue reading the post titled Welcome to the Siskinds TeamRaibex Canada Ltd. v ASWR Franchising Corp., Implications for Franchisors
Executive Summary and Client Advisory This case, decided late in the late Fall of 2016 and currently under appeal, is potentially highly problematic to franchisors who sign franchise agreements with prospects before a site has been selected. In essence, the trial judge found that doing so is not in compliance with the Ontario’s franchise disclosure...
Continue reading the post titled Raibex Canada Ltd. v ASWR Franchising Corp., Implications for FranchisorsPrivacy laws in Canada: to infinite fees and beyond
If you’re a business that hasn’t dotted the i’s in privacy compliance, then you may have your own Buzz Lightyear—“this is an intergalactic emergency”—moment. Both the Feds and Ontario have proposed new privacy legislation: the Feds introduced the Consumer Privacy Protection Act (“CPPA”) and Ontario countered with a white paper entitled “Modernizing Privacy in Ontario”...
Continue reading the post titled Privacy laws in Canada: to infinite fees and beyondCould Siri be an inventor?
You’ve probably asked Siri lots of questions, like “what’s the weather outside?” or “how long do you cook a soft-boiled egg?” But what if Siri was a little more sophisticated? What if you could ask Siri to design something or to improve a process? Imagine you were working on something, say an engine, and while building it...
Continue reading the post titled Could Siri be an inventor?Going to court in Ontario: Overview of a motion in a commercial litigation dispute
What is a motion? A motion is a court procedure used to resolve an interim dispute within your legal case. A motion can be brought within a legal action or a legal application. It is used to resolve procedural or substantive issues. Motions can be small and simple or large and complex. For example, a...
Continue reading the post titled Going to court in Ontario: Overview of a motion in a commercial litigation disputeBicycle Accident Compensation: Insurance Coverage for Injured Cyclists
When sharing a road with cars, cyclists, even when wearing the appropriate safety gear, run a risk of being struck by a vehicle and injured. Cyclists, like cars, are expected to obey the rules of the road, including signalling, obeying traffic lights, and not riding in pedestrian crosswalks. However, unlike cars, cyclists are not required to have...
Continue reading the post titled Bicycle Accident Compensation: Insurance Coverage for Injured CyclistsCan an employee’s involvement in the Freedom Convoy protests result in their termination of employment?
As we all know, life’s events are constantly being photographed, posted, tweeted, and shared. It seems that keeping our private lives private, has become less and less of a reality as the years go by. As a result, keeping a separation between employees “on-duty conduct” and “off-duty conduct” has been more difficult to do as...
Continue reading the post titled Can an employee’s involvement in the Freedom Convoy protests result in their termination of employment?Canadian small businesses to receive rent relief
Note: An updated article on the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance program can be found here. During Prime Minister Trudeau’s daily address on Thursday, April 16, 2020 he announced a new assistance program to help small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Prime Minster, the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (“CECRA”) program...
Continue reading the post titled Canadian small businesses to receive rent reliefWaste diversion, odour and climate change
Clare Booth Luce, the famous American playwright, journalist, ambassador, and Congresswoman, used to say, “no good deed goes unpunished”. To my regret, this sardonic and rather depressing phrase is, all too often, a good description of environmental laws. One example is the management of odour issues from waste diversion.
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