Could one add additional carve - outs for consumer contracts
regulated by provincial law, similar to the one recently added for payday lenders?
Although at the time this case was heard, the majority of provincial and territorial appellate courts held that courts had jurisdiction to prevent defence counsel from withdrawing due to non-payment in fees, there was some division in the case law and differing approaches had been taken in the codes of conduct
established by provincial law societies.
Many customize the checklists published
by provincial Law Societies for a particular practice area, client service style or matter management process.
Courthouse libraries are funded in a variety of ways depending on the province; but as a general rule, funds are
provided by the provincial law society and law foundation.
Unless you are in a federally regulated industry your employment is governed
by provincial law so you need to tell us if you are governed by national or provincial law and, if the latter, which provence.
So the notion that the constitution could bridge the boundaries that are too often
created by provincial laws and that the justices could find a right to economic liberty in the way that they've laudably found rights to so many other pieces of modern Canada was dazzlingly tempting to many of our brightest commentators and public policy thinkers.
The Court made a number of comments in reaching this conclusion, which suggest that federalism concerns, and particularly the doctrine of «interjurisdictional immunity» in favour of Canada's exclusive jurisdiction over «Indians and lands reserved for Indians», have no place at all in assessing the infringement of section 35
rights by provincial laws of general application.
Others may be
bound by provincial laws which, in Ontario for example, stipulates employees must be paid overtime par for hours worked in excess of 44 per week.
In February, the province moved to strip Cash Store's payday loan license, claiming the fees it charges customers vastly exceed the limits
established by provincial law.
By way of example, despite working for a First Nations government a bus driver for an educational unit, an employment counsellor with an Ontario Works unitand a worker from a negotiation office were all found to have their employment governed
by provincial laws.
Canadian employment law is generally governed
by provincial law and may vary from province to province, with the exception of businesses considered to be «federal» in nature, in which case federal law governs.
Frankly, drop out of CREA as a province as well as we are governed
by provincial laws.