Criminal Law
You may have seen the movie “Double Jeopardy” about an accused and a murder. There is a very old principle of criminal law that an accused may not be charged twice for the same offence because that would place the accused in jeopardy twice. Since about 1900 in Canada,...
Criminal Law
I was recently told a story about identity theft. My friend was sitting in his office in Haliburton one day, and unknown to him, his charge card was being used in Hamilton at a sporting goods store to purchase over $4,500 of sporting goods. He went to Toronto the next...
Criminal Law
Punishment for crimes committed, of course, goes back millennia. The biblical phrase “an eye for an eye” readily comes to mind. In Canada, the criminal law, including the law of sentencing, derives almost entirely from the Criminal Code which was first enacted in...
Contract
A binding contract is one that is based on a bargain. A bargain requires an offer, the acceptance of that offer, and the exchange of “consideration” between the parties to the contract. For example, a vendor offers to sell an appliance to a person for $500...
Contract
Tim Horton’s was a franchisor and had a franchise agreement, or contract, with Donut King, a franchisee, which ran 12 Tim Horton franchises in Ontario. A male employee of Donut King was apparently sexually harassing female employees of Donut King which was contrary to...
