The contentious issue of whether a bankrupt’s personal pension should be available to his creditors has given rise to a number of court decisions over the years. Many thought the issue had been put beyond doubt in 2000 when the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act removed most pensions from an individual’s estate on bankruptcy although it was generally accepted that it was still possible for a court to make an income payments order over […]
In the recent case of Malko-Monterrosa v. Conseil Scolaire Centre-Nord1, the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal recently heard a complaint filed by Ms. Malko-Monterossa, a teacher who alleged that the Conseil Scolaire Centre-Nord discriminated against her on the grounds of race, colour, gender and ancestry when it failed to protect her from a prolonged campaign of harassment by a student of the school board.
Stating the test for workplace harassment as “unwelcome conduct related to prohibited […]
Among the Court of Appeal of Alberta’s first decisions of the New Year, was its decision in Peters & Co Limited v Ward, 2015 ABCA 6 (CanLII), regarding the matter of an Anton Piller Order obtained by an employer, an investment firm. The Order permitted the search and seizure of a former employee’s residences, vehicles, computer and other digital storage devices, and an office building, for property allegedly taken from the employer.
Anton Piller Orders […]