The solicitor client privilege applied to emails on a corporate server even though the corporate policy manual indicated that emails were not guaranteed to be private and even though there was a later change in policy regarding corporate computer use for personal matters.

This digest highlights a Federal Court of Appeal decision where the Court held that where a registered charity is transferring money or other resources to an intermediary, simply having a written agreement will not necessarily evidence that the charity is exercising direction and control over its own resources.

This digest highlights a British Columbia Court of Appeal decision which upheld a lower court’s finding that a hotel manager did not owe a fiduciary to purchasers of the assets of the hotel corporation.

Claims against veterinarian, veterinary clinic and veterinary medical association, were struck out on basis that facts pleaded did not support the claims.

Court of Appeal held entitlement to bonus payments did not depend on whether employee was notionally or actively employed after employment was terminated but on compensation and benefits to which he would have been entitled but for wrongful termination

Bruyere Continuing Care and CUPE, Local 4540 (Burnett), Re (2016), 2016 CarswellOnt 633 Ontario Arbitration

This digest highlights a British Columbia Supreme Court decision where the Court found that a corporation’s deteriorating financial circumstances can impose a heightened duty of disclosure, and held that a director breached his fiduciary duty to the corporation by failing to disclose the expiry of a management services agreement.

This digest highlights a Supreme Court of Canada decision which allowed an appeal from licensing decisions of the Copyright Board, holding that the Board failed to consider the principles of technological neutrality and balance.

Action against Crown for defendants alleging public misfeasance, abuse and excess of jurisdiction, abuse of process, negligence, and breach of various constitutional obligations was not a claim that could be resolved through Federal Court Rule 369.

This digest highlights a recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision where the Court allowed the plaintiff’s action against the defendant’s estate personally, holding that the limited degree of notice provided by the defendant by using the words “transport company” did not create an obligation on the plaintiff to investigate whether he was doing business with a corporation.

Text messages sent by complainant in the midst of the events in question were admitted as evidence under the principled approach to hearsay

Agreement to deduct gasoline fuel that defendant purchased from defendant's wages was of no force and effect pursuant to Saskatchewan’s employment standards act