Floden Ward LLP tiene la capacidad de ayudar a nuestros clientes en Español además de Inglés. Practicamos derecho en las areas...

The Recent Alberta case of Brown v. Hrt Motors Inc. (2020 ABQB620) looks at the issue of mitigation. Mitigation is the rule that...

There is no question that the respective legal systems in Alberta and within Canada are incredibly complicated. It takes even people who...

We are often approached by people in litigation matters who under the false impression that at the end of the lawsuit they will receive...

The Supreme Court of Canada recently clarified that bad faith can be a separate cause of action in employment lawsuits. The Supreme Court...

If you were to google what the most stressful life events are, they (unscientifically) 1) death of a loved one 2) divorce and 3) getting...

The Government of Alberta yesterday proposed Bill 37, which passed first reading (it can be found here if you are interested:...

Employers will sometimes try to prevent employees from hiring away other employees or poaching clients upon their departure. They will...

An interesting question arises due to the current Covid Epidemic. Does the current economic situation mean that there has been...

Covid has caused a wrench of uncertainty to be thrown into everything, including contracts of all manners. We have had a number of...

A Guarantee is a promise to be liable for the debts of another person. When banks make loans to corporations, they often add guarantees...

One of the first things that law school students learn about is torts. And yes, while a torte with an "e" is a cake, a tort without an...

We are commonly presented with employees who have been given the ubiquitous "lowball offer" which is so beloved by certain employers and...

One of the great characters of Alberta law was Master Funduk. In the Alberta judicial system, a Master-in-Chambers is a judicial officer...

The law of negligence stands for the proposition that if you are careless and it causes a foreseeable loss to someone you can be liable....

Many employment contracts try to limit the severance payable under the contract to employment standards amounts. Is this language...

In honour of thanksgiving we have reviewed our first turkey case. The moral is: be wary of the activities you engage next to a turkey...

Employers often insist on non-solicitation and non-competition clauses in contracts of employment. Sometimes they will try to add these...

Further to our discussion yesterday, in Matthews v. Ocean Nutrition, the Supreme Court adopted a two part test for deciding how to...

The Supreme Court of Canada released a decision today called Matthews v. Ocean Nutrition Canada Ltd. 2020 SCC 26. This was a case where a...