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August 24th, 2018

Directors’ Liability: Get the Means to Defend Yourself!

The directors of any corporation have important duties and obligations which, in certain cases, can entail their personal liability.1 As in any area of human activity, allegations of fault can be made against directors, and the latter must defend themselves in order to show that the allegations are either baseless or that the director acted with […]
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August 23rd, 2018

Demystifying Construction Management Contracts

While construction management contracts have gained in popularity since the revision of standard contracts proposed by the Canadian Construction Documents Committee (the “CCDC”) in 2010, they have given rise to recurring questions among stakeholders in the construction industry and members of the legal community. Here are the questions most frequently asked: What distinguishes the Construction […]
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August 20th, 2018

An Injury Sustained While Clearing Snow off a Vehicle Is an “Automobile Accident”, the Court of Appeal Decides

This article is a modified version of a case comment initially published by Éditions Yvon Blais (Thomson Reuters) in August 2018 (EYB2018REP2523). As two recent court cases show, getting injured while clearing snow from a car does not immediately bring to mind the concept of an automobile accident. The Court of Appeal, however, in its […]