Helpful Legal Articles: Information Regarding Common Litigation Concerns

Most small businesses are owned and operated by the shareholders. Indeed, in many incorporated small businesses the shareholders are also the officers,...

A Helpful Guide to Understanding That Employees Are Without Personal Liability Protection for Negligent Conduct Occurring While Acting For a Corporate...

Liability protections usually available for owners of an incorporated business may be lost without properly holding out and identifying the corporate identity...

In Canada, a person defamed can respond with defamatory statements under qualified privilege, losing protection only if malice, not defense, is the dominant...

Movers, meaning a moving company in the business of transporting the goods of others, are known as bailees for hire.  As bailees, special liability risks arise.

When an engagement is terminated, the 'contract to enter into marriage' is ceased and the engagement ring must be returned. 

An owner or person with care and control of an animal may be found liable for injuries caused by the animal.  The law regarding injuries by animals differs for...

A liability waiver, when genuinely agreed to, remains very limited and applicable only to those risks willingly assumed.  Generally, a waiver is also unable to...

The law despises waste and the doctrine of mitigation, being the duty to mitigate, is the mechanism that imposes an obligation upon a harmed party to take...

The moving industry is filled with highly professional, respectable, and honourable, businesses that conduct proper dealings; however, some companies are known...

When a person is declared a vexatious litigant, on a going forward basis, the person will require special permission of the court prior to bringing litigation. 

The vicarious liability principle involves the imposing of financial responsibility upon a master for the wrongdoings of a servant hired by the master.