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breach of fiduciary duty

By Vey Willetts LLP | 4 Minutes Read March 12, 2021

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.

Article by Vey Willetts LLP / Business, Employment Standards / breach of fiduciary duty, employment law, fiduciary employees, non-competition agreement

By McCarthy Tétrault LLP | 3 Minutes Read January 21, 2019

“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.

Article by McCarthy Tétrault LLP / Employee Relations, Payroll / breach of fiduciary duty, employment law, fiduciary duty, soliciting customers, termination, wrongful dismissal, wrongful termination

By Occasional Contributors | 4 Minutes Read August 13, 2014

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.

Article by Occasional Contributors / Business, Finance and Accounting, Information Technology, Payroll, Privacy / breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of good faith, certification of a class action, compensation for their pecuniary losses, customers’ confidential information, damages for emotional suffering, damages in negligence, employment law, Evans v. The Bank of Nova Scotia, fraud, free credit monitoring, hardship, identity theft, identity theft protection, in the course of executing a search warrant, intrusion upon seclusion, invasion of the privacy, negligent supervision of its employee, new tort of intrusion upon seclusion, privacy has been breached, risk management, Scotiabank, waiver of tort

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