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This digest highlights a recent B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decision where damages were awarded for religious harassment.

Motor Coils Manufacturing Ltd. and Unifor, Local 520 (Steacy), Re (2015) [2015] O.L.A.A. No. 263, 2015 CarswellOnt 10254 Ontario Arbitration

The case comment explores the issue of whether the Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF) an asset that flows into the Estate (to be divided amongst the Estate’s residuary beneficiaries)? Or, to the person named by the Deceased, pre-death, as a beneficiary on the designation/declaration form?

In the Special Focus section of this newsletter, the authors review the decision Mayotte v. Ontario which interprets and applies the scope of the duty of honest performance as set out by the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Bhasin v. Hrynew.

In "Mending Wall"1 , poet Robert Frost and his neighbour are engaged in their annual spring ritual of repairing the stacked stone wall that divides their properties.

The failure to consider a relevant aggravating factor, such as the interprovincial impact of heroin trafficking in this instance, would justify appellate intervention with the sentence imposed.

Recent case which dealt with a lump-sum spousal support payment in the context of settlement structure, bankruptcy and variation.

Recent parental alienation case which dealt with the rights of a child and a police enforcement clause in a custody order.

R. v. McDonald | 2015 CarswellBC 3421 | British Columbia Supreme Court

Judicial comity aims to prevent conflicting jurisprudence and to encourage certainty in the law; however, new evidence would affect the standard of review.

Legal researchers can now review legislation in a single document instead of section by section.

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