Our work is crucial to our ability to forge a good life for you. If we want a family, a car, or a house, gainful employment is vital. Of course, one of the biggest risks in life is when we get sick, have an accident, and cannot work. What happens then? It is always a …
Very rarely in law do we see a judge create a new category of claims–in legal terms it’s historic. But that is just what an Ontario judge has done. He awarded damages to a person whose privacy was violated. The case was about a young woman attending university who was pressured by her ex-boyfriend to …
Most people don’t realize that their home insurance, whether they rent or own, protects them from many other risks. I once took a case where a teenager lost sight in one eye after being hit by a snowball at school. The boy wasn’t participating in the snowball fight when he was hit. In the end, …
The other day a client came into my office after being in a car accident. She wasn’t sure if we could help her because she thought that we only take on big cases, not small ones. I was surprised to hear this because it’s simply not true. We take on both big and small cases. …
A (now former) Uber driver is pursuing legal action after both his insurance company and Uber have abandoned him following a car crash while delivering a passenger. Click to read entire article.
Mr. Ramono is an automobile mechanic in Ontario. In the summer of 2012 he certified a 17 year old truck as safe to drive on the road so that the truck’s ownership could be transferred. This happens every day in Ontario. It is routine – the vehicle is inspected and repaired if necessary.
Robin Camp has found himself in a spot of trouble. The Albertan judge’s own Court of appeal found that he made inappropriate comments revealing a misunderstanding of Canadian sexual consent law. This happened when Camp was a provincial Court Judge ruling on a criminal trial. The long and short of it is that Justice Camp basically blamed the victim.
The holidays are a time to relax with family and friends, though it often brings overeating and overdrinking. The police and their RIDE program patrol the roads, but they can’t catch everybody. There are accidents, sometimes deadly, when someone gets behind the wheel intoxicated. There are also accidents when pedestrians attempt to walk the road while drunk. Who’s responsible when something happens?
Today’s world is dominated by computers and the internet. Many of us shop, bank, and interact socially on the internet. Our governments and courts are also on the internet, and recently the Supreme Court changed how they appear online.