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craigfloden
Oct 27, 20202 min read
Alberta Wrongful Dismissal: A Case on Mitigation
The Recent Alberta case of Brown v. Hrt Motors Inc. (2020 ABQB620) looks at the issue of mitigation. Mitigation is the rule that...
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craigfloden
Oct 26, 20201 min read
Litigation in Alberta- Self Represented Litigants and Limited Scope Retainers
There is no question that the respective legal systems in Alberta and within Canada are incredibly complicated. It takes even people who...
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craigfloden
Oct 25, 20201 min read
Litigation in Alberta: Costs
We are often approached by people in litigation matters who under the false impression that at the end of the lawsuit they will receive...
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craigfloden
Oct 24, 20201 min read
Alberta Employment Law: Bad Faith Tactics in Covid times
The Supreme Court of Canada recently clarified that bad faith can be a separate cause of action in employment lawsuits. The Supreme Court...
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craigfloden
Oct 23, 20201 min read
Wrongful Dismissal: The Employer Empathy Gap
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...
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craigfloden
Oct 22, 20201 min read
Alberta Law Update: Changing to a Prompt Payment Builders' Lien System
The Government of Alberta yesterday proposed Bill 37, which passed first reading (it can be found here if you are interested:...
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craigfloden
Oct 22, 20202 min read
Alberta Employment Law: Non-Solicitation and Common Law Fiduciary Duties
Employers will sometimes try to prevent employees from hiring away other employees or poaching clients upon their departure. They will...
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craigfloden
Oct 20, 20202 min read
Alberta Wrongful Dismissal: Employment Law, Covid and Frustration of the Contract of Employment
An interesting question arises due to the current Covid Epidemic. Does the current economic situation mean that there has been...
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craigfloden
Oct 19, 20201 min read
Alberta Law Info: Covid and Commercial Leases (from a tenant's perspective)
Covid has caused a wrench of uncertainty to be thrown into everything, including contracts of all manners. We have had a number of...
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craigfloden
Oct 18, 20201 min read
Alberta Law Update: Personal Guarantees
A Guarantee is a promise to be liable for the debts of another person. When banks make loans to corporations, they often add guarantees...
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craigfloden
Oct 17, 20201 min read
Alberta Law Update: What are Torts?
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...
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craigfloden
Oct 16, 20201 min read
Wrongful Dismissal in Alberta: Offers and Counteroffers
We are commonly presented with employees who have been given the ubiquitous "lowball offer" which is so beloved by certain employers and...
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craigfloden
Oct 15, 20202 min read
Alberta Law Update: What is Precedent?
One of the great characters of Alberta law was Master Funduk. In the Alberta judicial system, a Master-in-Chambers is a judicial officer...
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craigfloden
Oct 14, 20202 min read
Alberta Law Update: Snails in the Ginger-Beer and Negligence
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....
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craigfloden
Oct 13, 20201 min read
Wrongful Dismissal in Alberta: Is the limitation on severance clause enforceable?
Many employment contracts try to limit the severance payable under the contract to employment standards amounts. Is this language...
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craigfloden
Oct 12, 20202 min read
Turkey Law Update
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...
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craigfloden
Oct 11, 20202 min read
Wrongful Dismissal in Alberta: Enforceability of Restrictive Covenants After Termination
Employers often insist on non-solicitation and non-competition clauses in contracts of employment. Sometimes they will try to add these...
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craigfloden
Oct 10, 20202 min read
Wrongful Dismissal in Alberta: Damages for Bonuses and other Benefits
Further to our discussion yesterday, in Matthews v. Ocean Nutrition, the Supreme Court adopted a two part test for deciding how to...
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craigfloden
Oct 9, 20203 min read
Fired in Alberta: Supreme Court of Canada clarifies Bonus and Good Faith Issues in Employment Law
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...
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