Canada Day, statutory (public) holiday
In all provinces and territories, Canada Day is a statutory (public) holiday. This year, July 1 falls on a Monday, a regular working day for most.
Archives for June 2019
Failure to repeat termination clause after multiple promotions voids clause
In McKercher v Stantec Architecture (2019 SKQB 100), Justice Elson had a situation where at the time of his hiring as a staff architect, the plaintiff signed an enforceable contract limiting his notice to a maximum of 3 months.
The corporate identification doctrine clarified through an intervention in the Supreme Court of Canada
A corporation is of course an abstract entity. It is a legal person, but can only act through human beings. Certain causes of action, such as fraud or knowing assistance of a breach of trust, have a knowledge requirement: the defendant can only be held liable if he or she – or it, in the case of a corporation – has knowledge of certain facts. How can a corporation be held liable for having certain knowledge if it has no brain to possess that knowledge?
