by Andriessen & Associates | Mar 27, 2012 | Copyright & Trade-mark, Corporate documentation
Well, yesterday’s Ontario Court of Appeal decision certainly has generated a lot of discussion. You know, the one where Brothels are now legal, well they will be in a year if the Supreme Court of Canada doesn’t disagree. In our office the talk was not of the morality...
by Andriessen & Associates | Mar 23, 2012 | Corporate documentation, Employment issues, Privacy
It’s summertime (not really) and our thoughts naturally turn (again not really) to summer students, interns and other temporary employees. Some of these indentured servants, er, temporary workers, will return to their studies in the fall, some will wander off to other...
by Andriessen & Associates | Mar 14, 2012 | Our Take on Things
We’ve touched on the area of guarantors before – those parties who literally guarantee the performance of some aspect of a legal agreement – and the exposure to liability that a guarantor can have in the event of a default or breach of the agreement. But I don’t think...
by Andriessen & Associates | Mar 8, 2012 | Our Take on Things
Inga and I came across an interesting development recently that has me thinking. In the course of reviewing a statement of claim, we noted that the particulars disclosed various confidential clauses of an agreement that clients of ours had recently entered into. That...
by Andriessen & Associates | Mar 2, 2012 | Our Take on Things
What a difference 15 years can make. I am hardly long in the tooth in my legal career, but the change in the way legal services can be provided due to the massive expansion of internet services has been dramatic over that period of time. When I first started practice,...