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Rights and obligations of fiduciary employees

Conflicts between employers and fiduciary employees most commonly arise where the individual has sought for herself a business advantage which should have accrued to the employer or attempted to solicit clients and/or misused confidential information following the end of the employment relationship.

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“Keep your hands clean”: Ontario Superior Court rules that an unfairly terminated fiduciary may owe a lesser degree of post-employment fiduciary duties

Recently, in the case of Palumbo v. Quercia 2018 ONSC 503, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled that the restrictions on soliciting clients of a corporation will not be as strict for an unfairly terminated fiduciary.

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Evans v. The Bank of Nova Scotia: Another case of intrusion upon seclusion is certified as a class action

The new tort of “intrusion upon seclusion”, which provides a cause of action to those whose privacy has been breached, was given new teeth this month by the certification of a class action against the Bank of Nova Scotia and its employee, Richard Wilson.

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