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October 2019
Field Law to be Named 2019 Recipient of the Law Firm Award at Upcoming Women in Law Leadership Awards
Field Law is proud to announce that it will be honoured at the upcoming 2019 Women in Law Leadership Awards with the Law Firm Award, presented by The Counsel Network and The Association of Women Lawyers. The Law Firm Award is presented to a firm ...
November 28, 2019
2019 Field Law Post-Secondary Summit
Conferences
Join us for our fourth annual Summit to focus and collaborate on legal issues facing Alberta’s post-secondary institutions.Topics to be covered include: Innovative Governance During Challenging Times Update on Recent Labour Relations Board ...
November 19, 2019
Cannabis: One Year Later
Seminars
Edmonton Chamber of Commerce
One year after Canada legalized cannabis for recreational use, this panel will discuss the implications in the workplace, society, and to our country overall. The panel will explore all angles of post-legalization and feature experts from workplace saf...
November 7, 2019
Practical Considerations for the Investment Income Rules for Private Companies
Seminars
Private companies have seen much newsworthy tax reform in recent years. Changes to the tax rules on investment income earned by Canadian-controlled private corporations (CCPCs) result in various pitfalls where there is more than $50,000 of investment i...
October 22, 2019
Insurance Industry Update: What You Need to Know
Seminars
The insurance issues surrounding liability for personal injury are always changing. Join lawyers from Field Law's Insurance Practice Group for a free seminar on topics including: Do insurers have to provide advances to Plaintiffs and if so...
October 17, 2019
Business Succession Planning Webinar
Business succession is a principal and critical component of personal succession for owners of closely held businesses. This is a long-term, complex process that must be managed with a structured approach. Presented by Rob Worthington and J.R. Mac...
October 16, 2019
Update on Edibles: Legal Tomorrow!
Keeping Up With Cannabis
Almost 5 million Canadians reported using Cannabis in the second quarter of 2019. For those Canadians, partaking in Canada’s legal cannabis market is about to become much sweeter… Update The Federal Government’s Cannabis Ac...
October 10, 2019
Registration Issues in Professional Regulation Webinar
Professional regulatory organizations are responsible for assessing applications for professional licensing and applying registration requirements in a fair and transparent way. This task is made increasingly difficult by the evolving regulatory and le...
September 2019
Immunizations and Immunity Provisions: The Scope of Protection Under the Public Health Act
Field Law Blog
September 2019
The Best Lawyers in Canada 2020
34 Fielders Recognized
Field Law is pleased to announce that 34 of our lawyers are recognized in their respective practice areas in the 14th edition of The Best Lawyers™ in Canada. Recognition in Best Lawyers™ is based on peer reviews of leading lawyers and ...
September 26, 2019
Must Have Policies for Employers: Why, What + How
Seminars
Join Field Law in Edmonton and Calgary and learn tips and tricks to assist with the implementation and enforcement of three workplace policies Employers should have in place in today’s market.We will explore how changes in legislation and culture...
September 25, 2019
Practical Considerations for the Investment Income Rules for Private Companies
Seminars
Private companies have seen much newsworthy tax reform in recent years. Changes to the tax rules on investment income earned by Canadian-controlled private corporations (CCPCs) result in various pitfalls where there is more than $50,000 of investment i...
September 2019
Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: No Wrongful Dismissal Damages if Disability Benefits Paid
Workwise Newsletter
In Belanger v Western Ventilation Products Ltd, 2019 ABQB 571, a Master of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench found that an employee who became disabled after his notice of termination was not entitled to wrongful dismissal damages because the em...
September 2019
Field Law Lawyers and Department recognized in Chambers Canada 2020 Guide
Field Law is pleased to be listed in the Chambers Canada 2020 guide with three firm rankings and three lawyers ranked. Our firm rankings are: Highly Regarded, Corporate/Commercial Department in Alberta, Band 3 Recognized Practitioner, Employ...
September 2019
Single Use Plastic Bans: What You Need to Know
Field Law Blog
September 16, 2019
Fair Registration Practices Act: Implications for Professional Regulatory Organizations
As we previously reported, on June 19, 2019, the United Conservative Party introduced Bill 11 - Fair Registration Practices Act in the Alberta Legislature. Bill 11 received Royal Assent on June 28, 2019, and will come into force on proclamation.Jo...
September 2019
Doing Work on a Provincial Project? Protect Yourself with a Public Works Act Claim
Field Law Blog
September 2019
Lessons Learned from the Legalization of Cannabis
Conferences
RIMS 2019
September 2019
How Dependent Must a Dependent Contractor Be?
Workwise
The distinction between employees, independent contractors, and dependent contractors is a well-established part of Canadian employment law. But where to draw the line between independent contractors and dependent contractors in any given circumstance ...
July 31, 2019
Field Law Announces Northern Alberta Winners of its 7th Annual Community Fund Program
Field Law awards a total of $30,000 to six Northern Alberta organizations
EDMONTON (July 31, 2019) – Field Law, a western and northern regional business law firm, is pleased to announce the Northern Alberta winners of its Community Fund Program (the Program). Field Law awarded one grand prize and five additional awards...
August 2019
Craft Cannabis: Micro-Cultivation + Micro-Processing Licences
Field Law Blog
August 2019
City Moves to License AirBnBs and Other Short-Term Rentals
Field Law Blog
August 2019
Alberta Court of Appeal Confirms the Limitation Period for Statutory Damages Claims under PIPA
Alert
The Alberta Court of Appeal has recently confirmed that the limitation period under the Alberta Limitations Act applicable to a statutory claim for damages under the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) does not begin to run until a Commissioner&...
August 2019
Case Summary: Goddard v Bayside Property Services Ltd
Defence + Indemnity
The British Columbia Court of Appeal held that a plaintiff can establish liability in an occupiers’ liability case by circumstantial evidence when he/she cannot remember how he/she slipped and fell. Goddard v Bayside Property Services Ltd, ...
August 2019
Case Summary: Merino v. ING Insurance
Defence + Indemnity
The Ontario Court of Appeal held that an auto insurer cannot void a policy for any material misrepresentation, including as to ownership. An insurer wishing to get out of an auto policy for misrepresentation must terminate the policy on notice, which d...
August 2019
Case Summary: SWAT Consulting Ltd v Canadian Western Bank
Defence + Indemnity
An insurer is not required to pay a third party contractor after having previously paid their insured. The third party contractor’s claim against an insurer for environmental clean-up costs owed to the contractor by the bankrupt insured was dismi...
August 2019
Case Summary: Greenidge v Allstate Insurance Company
Defence + Indemnity
Where a Section B insurer insists that the insured submit to a medical examination under the policy, the insured is obligated to attend the examination and submit to the protocols of that examiner or face discontinuance of benefits. The insured is not ...
August 2019
Case Summary: Sound Stage Entertainment Inc. v Burns
Defence + Indemnity
The Contributory Negligence Act of Saskatchewan only provides for apportioning damages among co-tort-feasors in instances of negligence, and does not enable negligent defendants to seek contribution and indemnity from defendants liable for intentional ...
August 2019
Case Summary: Stewart et al. v Wood et al
Defence + Indemnity
The premium that a plaintiff pays for plaintiff adverse costs insurance may be a taxable disbursement in the litigation.Stewart et al. v. Wood et al., 2019 ONSC 3931, per Tausendfreund, J. FACTS + ISSUES The parties settled a personal injury a...
August 2019
Case Summary: Jane Doe 72511 v Morgan
Defence + Indemnity
After the Plaintiff was assaulted by her domestic partner while living with him in his parents’ home and he published a pornographic video of her on the internet, he was found liable for the tort of publication of private facts and, together with...
July 2019
You're Fired: Here's Your Bonus
Workwise Newsletter
If an employee is fired for just cause are they entitled to their performance bonus for the months worked in that year? Most employers probably expect that the answer is no. However, in Master Schulz’s recent decision in Grainger v. Pentagon Farm...
July 2019
Fairness is in the Eye of the Beholder in the Tender Process
Field Law Blog
July 2019
Cutting the Red Tape? New Condo Regulations are on Hold for Further Review
Field Law Blog
July 2019
Legal Cannabis and Alberta Condominiums
Considerations for Creating Enforceable Bylaw Amendments
The federal government recently passed Bill C-45, an act that legalized personal consumption and cultivation of cannabis in small amounts. This new law, referred to as the Cannabis Act, came into effect on October 17, 2018. In combination with newly in...
July 12, 2019
Field Law Announces Northwest Territories Winners of its 7th Annual Community Fund Program
$15,000 to be distributed between three organizations
YELLOWKNIFE (July 12, 2019) – Field Law, a western and northern regional business law firm, is pleased to announce the Northwest Territories grand prize winner and two additional recipients of its Community Fund Program (the Program).The Kole Cro...
July 11, 2019
Understanding Your Intellectual Property Toolbox
Seminars
Do you work in an industry with technology or inventions that you are trying to protect? Or are you looking to commercialize your existing technology and capitalize on it? Join Field Law's Neil Kathol, a lawyer and trademark agent, for a Lunch...
July 2019
Reality Check: Can You Contract Out of Being an Employer?
Workwise Newsletter
With great power comes great responsibility. Certainly this is true of employer-employee relationships, where the power imbalance generally tips in favour of the employer. Employers are responsible for providing training and supervision to employees, c...
July 4, 2019
Field Law Announces Southern Alberta Winners of its 7th Annual Community Fund Program
$30,000 to be distributed between five organizations
CALGARY (July 4, 2019) – Field Law, a western and northern regional business law firm, is pleased to announce the Southern Alberta grand prize winner and four additional recipients of its Community Fund Program (the Program).The Calgary Women'...
July 2019
Tax Incentive Amendments to the Municipal Government Act
Field Law Blog
July 1, 2019
Field Law Announces New Managing Partner
Jeremiah Kowalchuk elected as Managing Partner effective July 1, 2019
EDMONTON/CALGARY (July 1, 2019) – Field Law is pleased to introduce Jeremiah Kowalchuk as Field Law’s Managing Partner for a three-year term commencing July 1, 2019.Jeremiah is experienced litigation counsel, having represented medium-to-la...
June 2019
Alberta Human Rights Tribunal Renders Landmark Costs Award Against Complainant
Canadian Employment Law Today
June 2019
Bill 11 – Fair Registration Practices Act
Alert
As noted in our previous alert, the United Conservative Party’s election platform included a promise to pass a Fair Access to Regulated Professions and Compulsory Trades Act, modelled on similar legislation adopted by the Province of Ontario in 2...
May + June 2019
Drone Workshop: Updates on Canada's Drone Regulations
Seminars
Canada's Latest Drone Regulations - Are You Ready to Fly?The Field Law Emerging Technology Group invites you to take to the sky with your drone, but before you do, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with the regulation, risks and responsibili...
May 14, 2019
Vote Now! The Field Law Community Fund Program Voting Phase is Now Open
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (May 14, 2019) - Field Law needs public input to help determine who of the 86 applicants will be awarded funds from the 2019 edition of the Field Law Community Fund Program (the Program). With $75,000 to be distributed amongs...
June 2019
Public Communications That Do Not Cross the Line: Dealing with Claims of Defamation
Perspectives for the Professions
Tsatsi v College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan, 2018 SKCA 53, held that a physician’s defamation claim against his regulator, his employer, and the government, should be dismissed as a result of the defences of truth and qualified pr...
June 2019
Who’s Responsible Here? The Regulation of Telepractice
Perspectives for the Professions
The internet facilitates world wide access to professional services. This in turn raises significant jurisdictional issues for regulators. If an individual or a company resides in jurisdiction “A” and provides professional services over the...
June 2019
Rectification: Where Are We Now?
Field Law Blog
June 2019
Changing the Health and Safety Culture
Business in Calgary
May 2019
Human Rights Tribunal Renders Landmark Costs Award Against Complainant
Workwise Newsletter
In Facey v Bantrel Management Services Co., 2019 AHRC 4 the Alberta Human rights Tribunal made a watershed costs award against a complainant. Tribunal Chair Langlois-Klassen acknowledged in her decision that costs should only be awarded against a compl...
June 2019
Recent Developments in Family Status Accommodation: A Three-Headed Monster of Approaches?
Workwise
Recent cases dealing with the protected human rights ground of “family status” provide employers with some additional guidance (and confusion) regarding the scope of their obligations, as courts, arbitrators and tribunals continue to try to...
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