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Employment Disputes
Legal action is being brought by a former employee who is demanding to be reinstated with retroactive compensation. This employee was fired for cause which is documented.

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» Contract Disputes and debt recovery
» Statutory Licence Protection
» Property Protection
» Bodily Injury
» Tax Protection
 

  • The president of a sports league wants to know whether some criminal charges that were filed against a coach 5 years ago can or have to be reported to parents.

  • A manager wants some guidance on the legal aspects of having disciplinary meeting with a poorly performing employee.
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Claims Examples

1. Employment Disputes

  • An employee is dismissed from work for being late and missing important meetings. As a result, she is fired. She commences a wrongful dismissal action alleging discrimination based on her sex and her hearing disability.
  • A shopkeeper performed a citizen’s arrest on a shoplifter and was charged criminally. The trial alone would have cost him in the region of $10,000 a day.
  • An employee has been sued for allegedly failing to comply with privacy legislation. There is no reasonable prospects requirement for the Legal Defence cover and therefore even if a policyholder is guilty, our lawyers can help to mitigate fine, sentence etc.

3. Contract Disputes and debt recovery

  • The printing company a business employs has printed substandard product and is refusing to honor its quality commitment.
  • A customer is refusing to pay her invoices.
  • A client incorrectly alleges that a company did not provide all the services agreed upon and so has refused to pay his account.

4. Statutory Licence Protection

  • A restaurant inspector has cited a restaurant for serving an underage customer and has suspended its operating license.
  • The City suspends a bakery’s licence because it failed a Health and Safety inspection.

5. Property Protection

  • A neighbor is interfering with the operation of a business by repeatedly parking his vehicles on the property preventing customers from using the lot.
  • A sports club rents the second floor of a building. Noxious vapours from the cabinetmaker on the ground floor are turning members away and threatening the sports club’s livelihood.

6. Bodily Injury

  • An employee is injured in the course of carrying out her employment duties and there is no workers’ compensation scheme.
  • A sales representative of a company injures himself at a client’s premises while doing a presentation.

7. Tax Protection

  • A company has received a notice of tax audit.
  • CRA requires proof from a business of the GST they have paid in a past taxation year.
    Briefly, they want corroboration that the input credits are accurate.
  • The PST department would like to audit all the invoices of a company to confirm that the correct amount of PST was remitted back to the government.
Advice Examples
  • A company’s CFO wants to know if she is in a conflict of interest.
  • An office was robbed and confidential information was stolen. Does the company have to notify their clients?
  • A business wants to terminate an employee. How do they do this and what are his/her rights in the matter?
  • What is the relevance of a shareholder agreement?
  • What kind of license does a company need to operate its business?
  • Is it necessary to make provisional installments for GST/PST/HST?
  • Should a company hire someone as an employee or on a contractual basis?
  • Can a landlord increase the rent without prior notice?