From the local pub, the Jones’ annual Christmas Party to the beer in the locker room after a hard fought old-timers hockey game, any amount of alcohol sets off a ticking time bomb of liability. A must-read for any bar owner.
"Away, lad, away beyond the blue horizon lays the truth of the world." Yeah, whatever. This primer will set you off on your journey over the sea of Canadian maritime law.
Covering bankruptcy, insolvency, business or personal, credit bureaus and debt collection. If you're being hit hard by debt collectors or sinking under a mountain of debt, these sites are where you ought to start. There will be another day when you'll be able to breath normally but that requires positive action on your part; and there's no better place than right here!
Elderlaw is a strange legal creature with its own rules and requirements, dealing with the person and the assets of the elderly and what to do with those assets once death occurs.
One stop-shop for legal information on an essential but also sad area of the law as it is inevitably raised in the emotionaly difficult aftermath of a family breakdown.
Canada's one-stop shop for the best plain language articles on criminal law. All free. All Net.
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This is the primary home for Duhaime.org's legal history information. It is divided into six chambers.
Duhaime's Real-Estate Law Centre. Don't leave home without it! Err ... um ... oops excuse me? This is about home? Hello? Hello!
The law has come a long way, baby! From acts so barbaric that they defy belief, to a modern world where most of the world population is exempt from the tyranical Rule of Man system and benefit from a transparent Rule of Law, this time-table looks at the significant steps in ongoing development of our law.
One-stop shop for all the info you'd ever need à la tort!
Sooner or later, employment law creeps into all of our lives, as summer students at Burger King, manager of a shredding company, CEO of Toyota Canada or as owner of the Vancouver Canucks. This article offers an excellent brew of the essentials of employment law in Canada.
It is the best of law and the worse of law. Oozing hope at every turn, international hobbles along, still staid and clunky, but always hopeful for that slow transition when it will be the true, real law of nations.
LawFun - the prequel! The Internet's home away from home for back-stabbing, mischief-making, self-deprecating lawyers, attorneys, barristers and solicitors.
Stay away unless endowed with a very substantial IQ.
May the actual total loss be barratry or demurrage to your flottila soul! Finally, a Tower of Babel plain language legal dictionary so we can understand what all those maritime lawyers talk about!
"Withdraw contract … suppose that no one can count upon the fulfilment of any engagement … and the members of the human community are atoms that cannot effectively combine; the complex co-operation and division of employments that are the essential characteristics of modern industry cannot be introduced among such beings. Suppose contracts freely made and effectively sanctioned, and the most elaborate social organization becomes possible.” H. Sidgwick, The Elements of Politics, 1879.
This is where we have prepared short descriptions of the lives and times of the most famous (or infamous) people that have shaped our law or legal institutions. The persons selected are taken from all nations and eras and based only on merit. Most are lawyers but this is not a criteria for inclusion.
There is no greater stain on the law then the bloody history of torture in the name of punishment for crime. The legal histories of England, Canada, the United States of America, Australia and, for that matter, virtually all members of the United Nations, are full of examples of awful punishment inflicted on those found guilty of crime.
The official police statement re a certain N. Claus.
The law is far from a substitute for proper crime prevention. The arm of the law can help as a deterrent to crime or, after the fact; try as best as can be done through financial retribution or punishment, to replace the aggrieved party to where they were before the injury. But your best day-to-day bet against crime is proper knowledge about reducing your chances of being a victim, of a tort or a crime. Thus, we believe that our legal information site would be incomplete without a component such as "The Police Station".
Contrary to what bakers would have you believe, torts are not edible. They are bad things; ow-ies. When someone intentionally or by being negligent, and hurts you, the theory has it that you can sue and receive compensation.
Trade-marks or, to use the USA usage, "trademarks", are used by persons selling goods or services to distinguish these from those of others, as duhaime.org does with it's domain name or the underlying law firm, Duhaime Law™ does with those words and Affordable Justice®. This article looks at the law of trade-marks.
When an employer terminates an indefinite term employment contract, they are obliged to give the employee advance notice, or money in lieu of notice (severance pay). Unjust dismissal is concerned with an employer failing to give an employee adequate severance pay, or where the employer alleges that dismissal is based on grounds that do not justify "just dismisal or "dismissal for cause". It can be a high-stakes "cat and mouse" contest, best left to specialized lawyers, but which is generally descibed in this article to the benefit of the unitiated.