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McLennan Ross LLP Edmonton, ON Document Search Results (15) Show: results per page Sort by:  | What’s In a Name? Avoiding Liability for Infringement of Proprietary Rights
Samantha C. Kernahan; McLennan Ross LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 30, 2012, previously published on Summer 2012 Starting an enterprise and building its reputation requires an investment of time, money and opportunities. No person who makes this investment plans to lose it. However, by not paying close attention to the legal issues surrounding the naming of an enterprise and the protection of proprietary...
| | Limiting Severance Obligations: Not As Easy As You May Think
Daniel R. Bokenfohr; McLennan Ross LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 30, 2012, previously published on Summer 2012 Without an express agreement specifying the severance owed to any employee upon termination without cause, employers have an implied obligation to provide “reasonable notice”. Reasonable notice is determined on a case-by-case basis according to a number of factors such as the character...
|  | Direct Service Providers: A Caution
Hugh J. D. McPhail; McLennan Ross LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 15, 2012, previously published on May 9, 2012 We continue to see a common use of “direct service providers” and other similar contractor arrangements. They all assert that the individuals are “contractors” and not “employees”. Some of these situations involve individuals who are controlled and directed like...
| | Accelerated LMOs
Brian DeMong; McLennan Ross LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 15, 2012, previously published on May 4, 2012 Effective immediately Service Canada is implementing a new Accelerated Labour Market Opinion (A-LMO) Initiative to expedite pre-approved employers who have met certain established criteria in getting LMOs for most skilled temporary foreign workers within 10 business days.
| | Major Federal Changes: Bill C-38
Sean D. Parker; McLennan Ross LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 3, 2012, previously published on April 30, 2012 On April 26, 2012, a new budget bill (“Bill C-38”) was tabled in the federal House of Commons. As suggested in press releases issued by the Federal Government last month, Bill C-38 contains several significant changes to federal environmental legislation, including: the Canadian...
| | Is the Struggle for Tax Planning Truly Over?
Douglas J. Boyer; McLennan Ross LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 3, 2012, previously published on April 26, 2012 As tax planners, we often work with clients to implement transactions that ‘strip’ surplus assets from corporations: this is just a fancy way of describing how an individual obtains corporate assets, while paying the least tax possible. Why else would you hire a tax lawyer?
| | “Reasonable Notice” Required Both Ways
Hugh J. D. McPhail; McLennan Ross LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 24, 2012, previously published on April 23, 2012 The Ontario Court of Appeal recently upheld a judgment awarding over $20 million in favour of an employer against four former employees who quit in unison on two weeks’ notice. Why the damages? They were key employees of a software engineering firm and left the company crippled when they...
| | Two Not Always Better Than One
Kathleen Bellows; McLennan Ross LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 20, 2012, previously published on April 13, 2012 Last week, the Court of Appeal released its decision in Gallant v. Farries on the issue of severing a trial into multiple trials. The Chambers Judge ordered that the trial in this medical malpractice lawsuit be split into two trials, one on liability and another on damages. The defendant who had...
| | New Skilled Trades Immigration Stream to be Created
Brian DeMong; McLennan Ross LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 20, 2012, previously published on April 17, 2012 McLennan Ross would like to report on an announcement that Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney made at a luncheon in Calgary on April 10, 2012. He outlined plans to create a new Skilled Trades Stream to help combat our nation’s growing labour shortages in construction, oil and...
| | Common Interest Privilege: The Risks of Sharing Work
James C. Lingwood; McLennan Ross LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 17, 2012, previously published on Spring 2012 ...it is important that the fundamental professional standards be maintained and indeed improved. This is essential if the confidence of the public that the law is a profession is to be preserved and hopefully strengthened. Nothing is more important to the preservation of this relationship than...
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