In a USA Today article “TwitPic, WordPress to go dark for online SOPA protest” Yamiche Alcindor reported that WordPress, along with other websites will not available on Wednesday January 18, 2012 to protest the proposed US legislation, Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act. WordPress is the host site for PitbLAWg. If WordPress [...]
A purchaser of residential real estate closes the transaction, moves in and then subsequently discovers that there is a convicted pedophile living across the street. The new purchaser has a young family living with him. Is the existence of the neighbouring pedophile a “latent defect” under real estate contract law sufficient to enable the purchaser [...]
If you are involved with a federally incorporated charity or non-profit corporation, you need to know that the law has recently changed and that you must take steps to address this. To learn what is required and how this change in the law will affect your organization, take a look at the PitbLAWg post by [...]
Many times, clients do not know how to deal with jointly owned property after their marriage or common law relationship has broken down. In his recent Whiteboard session on this topic, Les Kirchner discusses who is affected by property laws, what constitutes property, and how to define the general property categories. Les points out that the [...]
In 2009, a woman initiated a lawsuit against a Californian advertising firm and Toyota U.S.A. because of an aggressive advertising campaign that she claimed was designed to make individuals believe they were being stalked by a criminal (which, in fact, turned out to be fictitious). While the charges are now being dealt with by the Los Angeles Superior [...]
Since becoming the fifth jurisdiction in Canada to adopt franchise legislation with the passage of The Franchises Act (the “Act“) on June 17, 2010, the Manitoba Government has been developing the Franchises Regulation which has been released this week for public consultation and may be reviewed here . The Act will come into force on a date [...]
When taking security from a general (as opposed to a limited) partnership, the creditor must list as debtors in its financing statement both the partnership name plus the names of each of the partners of the partnership. This can cause difficulties when the partnership in question comprises many partners. For an expansion on these problems, [...]
Many property owners have been working all year getting apartment buildings registered as condominiums, but this will be much harder when new laws come into effect on November 7. The government hasn’t quite slammed the door on conversions, but almost. See my Whiteboard Session for more details.
This is a fundamental principle of employment law that is vital to every employer – employee relationship. The respective rights and obligations of employees and employers relating to overtime are governed in Manitoba by the provisions of the Employment Standards Code. The basic principle is that where an employee works more than 8 hours in [...]
Are you responsible for a federally-incorporated not-for-profit corporation? If you are, the clock is running on your deadline to make changes that are required by the introduction of the new Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (the “CNCA”). Industry Canada has just announced the CNCA will come into force on October 17, 2011. Find out what you need to do to comply with the new law, and when you need to do it.
