INTRODUCTION In today’s workplace, privacy is an evolving issue and Canadian privacy law is developing rapidly. Perhaps surprisingly, only a handful of Canadian jurisdictions, (including British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Newfoundland) have privacy legislation that creates a statutory tort or civil right of action for invasion of privacy. Until recently, most Canadian jurisdictions couldContinue reading “Opening the Door for Intrusion upon Seclusion: The Common Law Tort of Invasion of Privacy and what it means for Employers”
Can a Partnership be an Employer of a Partner? Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP v. British Columbia (HRT)
*By Devin Lucas and Shafik Bhalloo In Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP v. British Columbia (Human Rights Tribunal)[1], the equity partner, John Michael McCormick, entered into a partnership agreement with Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, an international law firm operating as an extra-provincial limited liability partnership registered pursuant to the Partnership Act of British Columbia. Under thisContinue reading “Can a Partnership be an Employer of a Partner? Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP v. British Columbia (HRT)”