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So I can’t call someone a cheater and a bully on the internet? How unfair!

What if I use the Internet to say bad words about someone? How much is that going to cost me? case #1: Magno v. Balita […]

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Oppression: What if you were part of a start-up company, you were orally-promised shares, but the shares never materialized and you were fired?

Start-up share issuance has been the subject of a successful oppression remedy. In Fedel v. Tan [2010] 101 (3d) 481, In the first iteration of […]

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What if you worked on Dad’s farm for 27 years, he promised you a piece of the farm, Dad dies and Mom throws you off the land?

What type of improvement action provides ground for propriety estoppel (an equitable relief declaring land to be granted not in accordance with the Will). Mulholland […]

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Affirmative Action: Some empirical results from U.S. policing

  When Dickson first justified affirmative action in Canadian law C.N.R. v. Canada (Human Rights Commission), [1987] 1 S.C.R. 1114, as is typical of Dickson, […]

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What is the value of an independent prosecutor?

In Miazga v. Kvello Estate [2009] SCJ 51 the supreme court said this: [46] The independence of the Attorney General is so fundamental to the integrity and […]

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So you signed a share exchange agreement you didn’t get your shares? What to do?

Foo v. Yakimetz, 2002 CanLII 2662 (ON SC) In1995 Yakimetz and his business partner Dubreuil owned BGI Systems Integration Ltd. They were in financial difficulty. […]

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Implied Warranty: does your new laptop promise privacy?

Bennett v. Lenovo 2017 ONSC 1082 (CanLII) So you go to Best Buy and you buy a Lenovo laptop. Then you use your laptop. Then […]

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