Duty of care of financial institutions to its customers
Given that establishing a duty of care is a prerequisite for establishing negligence, the Motion Judge in Foodinvest Limited v The Royal Bank of Canada granted RBC’s summary judgment motion.
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COVID-19 update: The right to refuse unsafe work is not a “right to not show up for work”
The Workers’ Compensation Board of British Columbia (the “Board”) recently considered the issue of whether the right to refuse unsafe work protected an employee who refused to show up for work entirely due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Is a tenant bound to pay rent for the period during the restructuring for which it cannot use the premises as a result of a COVID-19 lockdown order?
In the matter of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act of North American retailer Groupe Dynamite, Justice Kalichman of the Superior Court of Québec rendered a judgment on the obligation of a debtor to pay post-filing rent in a context where it cannot use leased premises as a result of COVID-19 government decrees.
