For the family members of a missing person, there may come a time when it is reasonable to infer the person is deceased. In such a situation, these family members may need to obtain a legal declaration of death for the person in order to deal with the various legal issues that arise upon this...Read More
Rent increases for tenants of residential property in British Columbia are controlled by the British Columbia Residential Tenancy Act. A landlord is permitted to increase his or her tenant’s rent every 12 months, and must give the tenant at least three months’ notice of the increase. Each year, however, a landlord is only permitted to...Read More
News Report Publishing The Vancouver community centre associations represented by DLG win an injunction against the Vancouver Park Board to stop the Park Board from terminating their contracts with the community centre associations and kicking them out of the community centres before a decision is reached in their ongoing lawsuit. Read more about this case...Read More
News Report Publishing DLG discusses its recently-filed injunction application on behalf of a group of six community centre associations after the Park Board responded to their lawsuit by trying to evict them from the community centres they have jointly run with the Park Board for decades. Read more about this case from Sandra Thomas at...Read More
News Report Publishing This article discusses the injunction being sought by six community centre associations, represented by DLG, to stop the Park Board’s retaliatory efforts brought in the wake of a lawsuit filed by the community centre associations against the Park Board. Read more about this case from Sandra Thomas at this link Vancouver is...Read More
News Report Publishing DLG discusses an injunction filed against the Park Board after the Park Board took steps to centralize revenue of all Vancouver community centres – including revenues belonging to the six community centre associations DLG represents. Read more about this case from Sandra Thomas at this link Vancouver is AwesomeRead More
News Report Publishing The Park Board and DLG, acting on behalf of a group of community centre associations, discuss their differing perspectives after the Park Board seeks to launch a system of community centre registration which, DLG argues, will centralize revenue and control with the Park Board and deprive the community centre associations of their...Read More
News Report Publishing Six community centre associations and DLG, as their legal counsel, discuss a lawsuit filed against the Vancouver Park Board for breaches of their contracts pursuant to which they operate particular community centres in Vancouver and have for decades. A copy of the Notice of Claim against the Park Board is provided. Read...Read More
News Report Publishing DLG and its client, a city of Vancouver employee, discuss an alleged breach of the employee’s privacy by his employer. Read more about this case from Bob Mackin at this link Vancouver is AwesomeRead More
The Canadian Government seeks to attract experienced business people to Canada who will support the development of a strong and prosperous Canadian economy. There are different ways to immigrate to Canada as an investor. The most popular one is the Provincial Nominee Program – Business Stream. Here, the applicant needs to demonstrate their intentions to...Read More
On 18 March 2013 the new British Columbia Family Law Act comes into force and will replace the current Family Relations Act and the way the law in BC deals with cohabitation, marriage, separation, and divorce. There are too many changes to go through in detail in a blog post, but here are some highlights...Read More
In British Columbia, we have multiple levels of government. In this post, we will be dealing with the municipal, provincial, and federal governments in BC generally. I have drafted City policies, have worked for the City of Richmond and Surrey Bylaw Departments, and the Provincial Translink department, and as such, have a sense of the...Read More
Many of our local and international clients are interested in building their own homes to live in or for investment. In BC, we have the Builders Lien Act . This is a key piece of legislation when building or renovating a residential or commercial property in BC. Too Easy and Too Costly This Act is...Read More
Dean Davison of Davison Law Group was one of three speakers at a seminar dealing with the legal and tax implications of receiving a financial windfall such as an inheritance or sale of a business.Read More
A while back we wrote about the importance of written employment contracts and we referred to various key clauses that an employer should include or should at least consider including in a post-employment restrictive covenant, otherwise known as a non-solicitation/non-competition clause. Such clauses are optional. You will never be legally wrong for not including such...Read More
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be…but if you must be a lender, exceed not the rate of interest that is criminal.” Polonius (if he had been a lawyer) There is in Canada a criminal rate of interest – exceed it, even accidentally, and there are consequences. The law is found in s. 347 of...Read More
If you have a trust set up or are the beneficiary of a trust, then this article probably isn’t for you. If, however, you aren’t entirely certain what a trust is, or why people have them or if you need one, then read on. A trust is essentially a legal arrangement where a person (called...Read More
If you have decided to incorporate a new company, one of the first decisions you will have to make is whether you will incorporate under British Columbia or federal legislation. British Columbia companies are governed by the British Columbia Business Corporations Act (“BC Act”) and federal companies under the Canada Business Corporations Act (“CBCA”). There...Read More
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