Legal

Good risk management under a contract requires contractors and subcontractors to be thinking about the contract throughout the life of a project.

Summarizing the framework for Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL).

The time for planning on contracts is at the outset, when everyone is getting along.

We would like to share a recent experience, which led to a Court deciding whether or not what we were doing fit properly within that shift.

The case also means parties are now clearly held to a standard of honesty, one which many did not believe previously existed.

In 2010, the owners of a property in Ottawa hired a contractor to build a home and then install a stone facade around it.

Passed in March of 2004, Bill C-45 established new legal duties for workplace health and safety, and imposed serious penalties for violations that result in injuries or death.

This month we complete our series of articles on debt collection with a discussion of what contractors, subcontractors and suppliers might do to protect themselves as a job moves towards completion.

This standard form contract was prepared by the Landscape Ontario Grounds Maintenance Commodity Group, which included representatives of insurers and the legal profession.