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BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

Is it ‘unprofessional’ to be a drug addict?

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • December 19 2012

No, argued two nurses who were disciplined for stealing narcotics from the hospital dispensary and for falsifying records: Wright v College and

Employee information and social media Part Two: what about mitigation efforts?

  • Rubin Thomlinson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • October 11 2012

In the last month, two personal injury cases have crossed my desk that have left me wondering how aggressively employers and their lawyers will or should incorporate social media searches to examine a terminated employee’s mitigation efforts

Are equity partners employees? Mandatory retirement in law firms

  • Miller Thomson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • September 6 2012

For some time now, it has been a settled principle of human rights law that employers cannot force employees to retire unless the age of an employee amounts to a bona fide occupational requirement

BC Court of Appeal overturns finding that partners in law firms are "employees" under human rights law

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
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  • August 13 2012

The British Columbia Court of Appeal recently released a judgment which overturned a British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal decision which had held that partners in a law firm could be treated as employees for the purpose of human rights protection

Manslaughter charges arise from alleged Liqor Licence Act violations

  • Miller Thomson LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • July 20 2012

Fast on the heels of the successful prosecution of Metron Construction for criminal negligence arising from the deaths of four of its workers in December 2009, wrongful act manslaughter charges have been laid against the two owners of the Angry Beaver bar located in Belleville, Ontario

Human Rights Tribunal has no jurisdiction to hear equity partner’s human rights complaint in British Columbia

  • Dentons
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  • Canada
  • -
  • July 19 2012

The British Columbia Court of Appeal has unanimously held that the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal did not have jurisdiction under the BC Human Rights Code to hear an age discrimination complaint filed by a lawyer against a national law firm a limited liability partnership in which he was an equity partner

Mandatory retirement for law partners

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • July 19 2012

A partner is a partner and cannot be an employee of the partnership

Canadian court rejects retirement age challenge by law firm partner

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • July 19 2012

We wrote a couple of times recently about the issue of age discrimination when it comes to law firm retirement policies

BC Supreme Court finds law firm & equity partner in an employer-employee relationship

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
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  • Canada
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  • July 19 2011

In Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP v. British Columbia (Human Rights Tribunal), 2011 BCSC 713 (Fasken Martineau), the Supreme Court of British Columbia recently upheld the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal’s (the BCHRT) finding that an equity law firm partner was an “employee” of his law firm for the purposes of the British Columbia Human Rights Code (the Code

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