A Vancouver realtor, Wilbur Roshinsky, was recently suspended by the Real Estate Council of B.C. for taking advantage of a 90 year old spinster suffering from dementia. The realtor arranged to sell the spinster’s home to a developer for a price well below market rate. CBC reports that the transaction was only caught and cancelled when the spinster’s lawyer learned of its ...
This post was submitted by Lawson Lundell guest author Euan Sinclair, Director, Knowledge Management.
In the absence of a national identity card, many Canadians are routinely required to use their driving licences to prove their identity in the course of business, commerce or travel. But when is it lawful for organizations to record information from the licence to ...
Almost the only member of the press to notice, Julius Melnitzer recently reported an Ontario Court of Appeal decision that held the Royal Bank of Canada had no right to freeze accounts belonging to one of its customers by simply starting a lawsuit. The case turned on the application of a little known (but much loved by litigators) section of the Bank Act: section 437(2). This ...
In an intersection of law and Canadian pop-culture, k.d. lang successfully defended her California judgment against her ex-manager, Annabel Lapp. Lapp, a Canadian resident, had been k.d.’s manager for 16 years prior to November 2005. Matters became nasty when k.d. sued Lapp in California for fraudulently handling her finances. k.d. effectively obtained a default ...
No day goes by without some new internet peril being drawn to our attention. The most recent evil is an internet based program called Firesheep. Like others (i.e. Wireshark, Tshark, Snort, Nmap, etc.), this program, a free download on the internet, allows users to troll cyberspace for open WiFi networks and, by doing so, access personal data and communications. The danger in ...
You just discovered that one of your company’s directors or a senior employee has been engaging in a fraud. One of the first things I get asked in situations like this is whether the conduct of the employee/director will be treated as the conduct of the company generally. Can the company distance itself from its agent’s conduct? It matters for a variety of reasons ...
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