Secret recordings upheld as just cause for dismissal.

Author: Dylan Snowdon The BC Court of Appeal has confirmed that surreptitious recordings of conversations with supervisors and others at work can create just cause for termination of employment.   In Shalagin v. Mercer Celgar Limited Partnership, 2023 BCCA 373 the Court affirmed the trial decision from 2022 where the trial judge found that the employee’s actions ruptured the relationship, […]

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Where you sit affects the view: how to choose the seat of arbitration.

Commercial lawyers and dispute counsel frequently skim over the dispute resolution clauses in contracts, failing to appreciate the importance of the “place” of arbitration (the “seat”). This brief paper explains why you should not discount this issue. I also make the case that my own jurisdiction – Alberta, Canada – should be at the top […]

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Carbert Waite LLP joins IR as the exclusive Commercial Arbitration Member in the Canada – West

IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Curtis Marble of Carbert Waite LLP. Curtis has joined IR as our exclusive Commercial Arbitration Member in the Canada – West. Curtis is a partner at Carbert Waite LLP, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and Co-Chair of the firm’s […]

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