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What Nova Scotia Employees Need to Know About “Just Cause” and Termination Without Notice
What Nova Scotia Employees Need to Know About “Just Cause” and Termination Without Notice If you work in Nova Scotia, you may have seen a “just cause” clause in your employment contract—often worded to say your employer can terminate you without notice or pay-in-lieu...
When Insurers Get It Wrong: Understanding the Pitfalls of Denied Long-Term Disability Claims
If you’ve been denied long-term disability (LTD) benefits, you’re not alone.
The Minor Injuries Cap
Understanding Nova Scotia's Minor Injury Cap If you have been in a car accident in Nova Scotia that was caused by another driver and suffered injuries, you may be entitled to receive compensation for the impacts of those injuries to your daily life. Your personal...
Mitigation for Car Accident Victims
Mitigation for Car Accident VictimsIn a personal injury case, the plaintiff has to prove that they suffered a loss because of their involvement in the car accident. The main types of losses are damages for pain and suffering, damages for loss of housekeeping capacity,...
What Compensation is Available To Car Accident Victims in Nova Scotia?
What Compensation is Available To Car Accident Victims in Nova Scotia?In Nova Scotia, automobile insurance is mandatory. There are some types of compensation that you will be entitled to receive through your own insurance company. If you are not at fault for the...
Lawyers raise concerns about N.L. consultant’s possible bias
Parent company’s profits from insurance industry could skew reports, PUB told Questions about the independence of the consultant hired by the Public Utilities Board (PUB) to assess the auto insurance industry in the province became a little too intense Friday for PUB...
CBC Investigates / Mom of terminally ill boy fights order to repay $31K in social assistance
Samantha Monaghan to battle Nova Scotia government in court after it said she had unreported income.The Nova Scotia mother of a terminally ill boy is taking her fight with the Department of Community Services to court after the government kicked her off social...
HRM employee takes Human Rights Commission to court over bullying complaint
Lynn Matheson claims she developed a mental illness due to a 'toxic' work environmentA Halifax Regional Municipality employee who claimed she was bullied into depression at work, is taking the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission to court after it dismissed her case.In...
CNIB faces legal challenge by ex-kiosk operator accused of mishandling money
CNIB, the national registered charity for the visually impaired, is again facing a legal fight with a former lottery kiosk operator who says he's been wrongly terminated and accused of mismanaging funds.Mike Perry is one of at least seven former kiosk operators to be...
N.B. attorney general proposes litigants pay jury costs in some cases
People involved in certain civil lawsuits in New Brunswick could be ordered to pay the jury costs in trials under changes proposed by Attorney General Serge Rousselle.Under the proposed change, legal actions for libel, slander, malicious arrest, malicious prosecution...
Fredericton, RCMP sued by fired Fredericton police officer
Allegations against police force include negligence, extortion, perjury and false imprisonment.Former Fredericton police officer Jeff Smiley and his common-law wife Kim Burnett have made a series of allegations against Fredericton police and the RCMP in a civil suit...
Cyberbullying law ruled void in Nova Scotia
Rehtaeh Parsons’ death in 2013 shocked people across the country, most particularly in Nova Scotia where after being sexually assaulted and belittled on the web, the 17-year-old attempted suicide in the bathroom of her family home and later died.Within weeks and...
Olivia’s Divas 2015
On October 24, 2015, our firm team, Olivia's Divas, participated in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada's annual Light the Night Walk.We are proud to say that we raised a total of $12,151.00 to help find a cure!
Rehtaeh Parsons’ Death Inspired a Cyberbullying Law in Canada — But Does It Hurt Free Speech?
A Canadian lawyer has launched a constitutional challenge of an anti-online harassment law, arguing its definition of "cyberbullying" is too expansive and infringes on free expression. The case of two feuding businessmen, one alleging the other "cyber-bullied" him, is...
Nova Scotia judge reserves decision as cyberbullying legal battle wraps up
An anti-cyberbullying law drafted in response to the Rehtaeh Parsons case was defended Thursday as necessary to fill in significant gaps in the criminal law. Nova Scotia’s Cyber-safety Act is the subject of a Charter challenge by Halifax lawyer David Fraser as part of...