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Covenants in restraint of trade connected to sale transactions

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • August 14 2012

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently set out an analytical framework for evaluating whether a covenant in restraint of trade is enforceable

Environmental, health and safety liability for parent company

  • Dentons
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 26 2012

If asked whether a parent company could be responsible for injuries caused to an employee of a subsidiary, instinctively your first response is likely to be “no”

Directors can you be personally liable for cost overruns?

  • Dentons
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 10 2012

Although cost overruns in construction and engineering projects are commonplace, a recent case in the TCC highlights a potential risk that most company directors in the sector may not be aware of personal liability for such overruns

Criminal liability of employers: an emerging threat under Bill C-45?

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 12 2010

Two years ago, on March 17, 2008, Transpavé Inc., a Quebec company, was charged and convicted under Bill C-45 of criminal negligence causing death, and fined $100,000.00 following the death of an employee who was fatally crushed

Blind reliance on a subcontractor can entail penal liability

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 31 2008

Following the deaths of two employees who were doing electrical testing on a dam, the Court of Québec has found Hydro-Québec guilty of having directly and seriously compromised the health, safety or physical well-being of a worker