Tips for businesses from being sued Avoid Being Sued: Easy Ways To Protect Yourself And Your Business Running your own business is fun, exciting and (hopefully) profitable. Getting sued when you run your own business is never good. Lawsuits are costly, time consuming and emotionally draining. If you can avoid being sued, [...]
Understanding Changes To The Alberta Real Estate Purchase Contract Looking At the Major Changes In Purchase Contracts For Alberta Real Estate There have been significant changes to the Alberta Real Estate Purchase Contract used in Alberta. Recent years have seen smaller updates but this marks a major change. It is very important to [...]
Does President Trump’s Immigration Executive Order Have Canada Trump’ed? Immigration post-Donald Trump On January 27th, 2017 THE EXECUTIVE ORDER PROTECTING THE NATION FROM FOREIGN TERRORIST ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES came into force. Informally it’s called, the Executive Order on Immigration. As a result citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria [...]
Properly Maintained Corporate Minute Books Save Your Time, Stress and Money The minute book of an Alberta corporation organizes and records all the legal information about the incorporation. After a company is incorporated, many corporations neglect and fail to update their minute book. This is because owners are attending to the day to day [...]
Rights of Common Law couples in Alberta Alberta Common Law Property Key Factors There are many myths and rumours about what the laws in Alberta are when it comes to common law relationship and common law property. A common law relationship is one where people live together as a couple but are [...]
Celebrity law suit over use of image in video game. Lohan and Gravano Sue Take-Two In 2014, actress Lindsay Lohan and Karen Gravano, who was on Mob Wives, sued the company Take-Two, which published Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 5. The women claimed that the company had used their images, and some circumstances [...]
Co-worker gets restraining order for harassing emails. News Anchor in Wisconsin Gets Unsettling Emails The news anchors that you watch on your local morning news always seem to get along and generally have some silly, somewhat corny banter going on between them. They often seem like happy people ready to greet you each [...]
Daughter brings father to court over being grounded Court Overturns Grounding of 12 Year Old in Canada Parents can sometimes have it rough. They try to raise their children right, and sometimes that means doling out punishments, and often those punishments are in the form of grounding the child. The grounding can mean [...]
Michael Jordan’s brand was used in a small meat company’s advertisement. Protecting the Michael Jordan Brand Basketball legend Michael Jordan has an image and a brand to maintain. Today, he makes the majority of his money off of his brand, and when something encroaches into that territory, there’s really no other choice but [...]
Wacky Peeping Tom Legal Rights Peeping Tom Sues Police The Peeping Tom Wanted His Stash BackThe world is full of weirdos and creeps, and quite often, they get busted for something that illuminates their strangeness. However, sometimes, the strangeness goes a bit further than normal, as is the case with a peeping Tom [...]