On January 23, 2008, the SCC heard the case Royal Bank of Canada v. Saulnier, on appeal from the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal. This bankruptcy law case (which has been discussed by Brad Caldwell at TheCourt.ca on January 23, 2008 in a post entitled, “Fishing Licenses as Security for Loans – An Incremental Step [...]

The protective dimensions of labour and employment law regularly collide with the norms of corporate and commercial law. In some instances, legislators have expressly overridden those norms, for example, through related employer provisions that treat two or more legally distinct entities as a single employer, making each jointly and severally liable for the obligations owed [...]