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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Vancouver, ON Document Search Results (22) Show: results per page Sort by:  | Federal Government to Introduce Major Reforms to Environmental Assessment Process
Dionysios Rossi, Brad Woods; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 13, 2012, previously published on April 2012 On March 29, 2012, the federal government introduced the 2012 Federal budget and announced major reforms to the federal environmental assessment process. The proposed changes are aimed at making the review process for major projects more predictable and timely, reducing duplication, strengthening...
| | A Practical Guide to Software License Agreements: Consequences of Termination /Surviving Rights and Obligations
Bradley J. Freedman; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 28, 2012, previously published on March 27, 2012 Software license agreements often specify important rights and obligations that are triggered when the software license ends or that continue to apply after the software license agreement ends. Customers should understand those rights and obligations and be prepared to enforce and comply with them.
| | CRTC Issues Final Regulations for Canada’s Anti-Spam Law
Bradley J. Freedman; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 21, 2012, previously published on March 19, 2012 On March 7, 2012 the CRTC registered its regulations for Canada’s anti-spam law. The regulations provide important details regarding the information to be disclosed when requesting consent to receive a commercial electronic message and the form and content of commercial electronic messages.
| | A Practical Guide to Software License Agreements: the Software License
Bradley J. Freedman; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 7, 2012, previously published on February 3, 2012 A software license gives a customer permission to use the licensed software and do other things that might otherwise be an infringement of the software vendor’s rights. Customers should understand the scope of the software license and take reasonable precautions to minimize the risk of...
| | Common Law Privacy Rights: Ontario Court Of Appeal Recognizes Invasion of Privacy Tort
Amy Davison; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 31, 2012, previously published on January 2012 The Ontario Court of Appeal in the case of Jones v. Tsige, 2012 ONCA 32, has explicitly recognized a common law tort for invasion of a person`s right to privacy, specifically the right to seclusion of one’s private affairs from the public eye - a legal issue that remains uncertain in some...
| | Bank of Montreal v. Peri Formwork Systems Inc.
Geoffrey Thompson, Edward Wang; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 23, 2012, previously published on January 2012 In the recently released Judgment in Bank of Montreal v. Peri Formwork Systems Inc., the British Columbia Court of Appeal was called upon to decide whether a Monitor, under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (“CCAA”), or a Receiver, under the Builders Lien Act, could borrow...
| | Avoiding IP Ownership Surprises
Bradley J. Freedman; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 18, 2012, previously published on January 17, 2012 Businesses commonly require their employees and independent contractors to sign agreements assigning ownership of all work product and related intellectual property rights to the business. A 2011 B.C. Supreme Court decision holds that those agreements do not assign legal ownership of copyright in...
| | Pension Misrepresentation Claims on the Rise in Canada
David A. Crerar, R. Andrew G. Harrison, Markus F. Kremer; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 18, 2012, previously published on January 2012 Pension misrepresentation claims against companies and actuarial firms are on the rise. Rare in Canadian law until recently, the full exposure posed by such claims remains unknown, given the fact that few cases that has yet come to trial. Any company with a pension plan, however, may be sitting on...
| | Important Changes to the Canadian Domain Name Dispute Policy
Bradley J. Freedman; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 15, 2011, previously published on December 14, 2011 Certain disputes involving alleged bad faith registration of .ca domain names can be resolved by arbitration pursuant to the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (known as the “CDRP”) mandated by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (“CIRA”). The CDRP’s...
| | Preparing for Canada’s New Anti-Spam and Online Fraud Act
Bradley J. Freedman; Borden Ladner Gervais LLP;
Legal Alert/Article November 29, 2011, previously published on November 28, 2011 Canada’s new anti-spam and online fraud act (commonly known as “CASL”) creates a comprehensive regime of offences, enforcement mechanisms, and potentially severe penalties (including personal liability for corporate directors and officers) designed to prohibit unsolicited or...
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