Not exact matches
The High Court previously decided
in May 2015 that the BBC was not
in breach of its employer's
duty of good faith by
imposing a cap on pensionable salary.
Did the Court
of Appeal properly exercise its discretion
in imposing a constructive trust to remedy the
breaches of fiduciary
duties?
After affirming the trial judge's decision that Mr. Allen was actually terminated on October 14, 2009, the Court
of Appeal for British Columbia cited with approval the decision
of Bowes v. Goss Power Products Ltd., 2012 ONCA 425, (canvassed by this blog
in the post Fix the
Duty to Mitigate) in which the Court of Appeal for Ontario held that if an employment contract provides for a fixed severance package there is no duty on the employee to mitigate his damages, and held that as Mr. Allen's employment agreement did not impose a duty to mitigate, the trial judge properly found he was therefore entitled to the balance owing for 15 months» salary and benefits in lieu of notice as damages for breach of contr
Duty to Mitigate)
in which the Court
of Appeal for Ontario held that if an employment contract provides for a fixed severance package there is no
duty on the employee to mitigate his damages, and held that as Mr. Allen's employment agreement did not impose a duty to mitigate, the trial judge properly found he was therefore entitled to the balance owing for 15 months» salary and benefits in lieu of notice as damages for breach of contr
duty on the employee to mitigate his damages, and held that as Mr. Allen's employment agreement did not
impose a
duty to mitigate, the trial judge properly found he was therefore entitled to the balance owing for 15 months» salary and benefits in lieu of notice as damages for breach of contr
duty to mitigate, the trial judge properly found he was therefore entitled to the balance owing for 15 months» salary and benefits
in lieu
of notice as damages for
breach of contract.
The Appellants argued s. 185 applied
in the circumstances; that a cyclist should be considered the same as a motorist where there is a
breach of the TSA or the Use
of Highway and Rules
of the Road Regulation, Alta Reg 304/2002 («Road Regulation») because both statutes
impose the same
duties on cyclists and motorists.
Pennsylvania — Attorney Liability, Key Points: Liability for aiding and abetting a
breach of a fiduciary
duty has never been
imposed on an attorney
in Pennsylvania who merely provided legal representation to his client.
Mosley v UK: «Max Mosley has lost his case
in the European Court
of Human Rights,
in which he claimed that the UK
breached his right to respect for private life under article 8
of the ECHR by failing to
impose a legal
duty on the media to notify him
in advance
of a story that violated his privacy....»
(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to product liability, unprecedented
in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort
of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5)
imposing strict liability on an entity not
in the product's chain
of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious»
breach of fiduciary
duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses
in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.
(14)
Imposing, and authorising a Protector to inflict summary punishment by way
of imprisonment, not exceeding fourteen days, upon aboriginals or half - castes, living upon a reserve or within the District under his charge, who,
in the judgment
of the Protector, are guilty
of any crime, serious misconduct, neglect
of duty, gross insubordination, or wilful
breach of the Regulations;