If you use Gmail as your primary business e-mail provider, you may be interested in a new plugin for Firefox or Chrome called Boomerang.

In the world of Canadian commercial leasing, justice Bora Laskin’s 1971 decision in Highway Properties Ltd. v. Kelly Douglas and Co. Ltd. stands out as the unrivalled seminal case on point. In Highway Properties, the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed that a commercial landlord had at its disposal three historic remedies with which to deal with a defaulting tenant.

Wrongful dismissals come in many forms, including temporary layoffs. In Elsegood v. Cambridge Spring Service (2001) Ltd., the Ontario Court of Appeal examined a novel legal issue of whether common law wrongful dismissal damages are available to employees whose dismissal was triggered by the operation of the Employment Standards Act due to the prolonged layoff.

At a time of stretched government budgets, it’s hard to argue against Legal Aid Ontario’s move in the past couple of years to dramatically reduce its deficit.

There’s a shocking legal matter that needs sorting out involving a group of workers with developmental disabilities in St. Catharines, Ont., who, according to allegations put to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, earned $1.25 an hour or less for 10 years.

Last June, an arbitrator opened up a potential can of worms in ruling that a school board must subsidize digital hearing aids for a teacher as part of its duty to accommodate short of undue hardship.

It was certainly a happy holiday season this past December for the former wife and appellant in the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent case of L.M.P. v. L.S. The case clarified the test to use in a variation application under s. 17 of the Divorce Act.

As the federal government and First Nations leaders proclaimed their wish to reset the relationship between the Crown and aboriginals in Canada last week, there was predictable criticism about the lack of concrete action.

It was chilling to hear that the criminal justice branch of the Ministry of the Attorney General of British Columbia intends to film the trials of more than 700 mainly first-time offenders for a rash of comparatively trivial public mischief offences that took place in downtown Vancouver on June 15, 2011.

In many ways, last week’s Jones v. Tsige ruling on the tort of invasion of privacy was long overdue.

Every year, with hundreds of new technology developments, it’s difficult to determine which ones to pay attention to and which ones to ignore.

The family law rules that govern all family law matters before the courts in Ontario were the product of lengthy discussion, consultation, and debate among family lawyers, judges, and family law academics.