In its current Ontario edition, The Lawyer’s Weekly published an article on the McCormick human rights complaint being pursued by Murray Tevlin, of TevlinGleadle Employment Law Strategies, pursuant to the BC Human Rights Code. This proceeding involves the claim of a long service equity parter based on age discrimination. The current stage involves a determination … Continued
This is the second judgement of the BC Supreme Court in this proceeding. In the initial decision, Madam Justice Bruce dismissed the plaintiff’s application for an interlocutory injunction restraining conduct by our clients based on allegations of breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty. She did so because a collective agreement in place between … Continued
TevlinGleadle, as counsel for Mr. Somerville delivered detailed Outline of Written Submissions as to the reasons why this proceeding should be certified by the court as a class action under the BC Class Proceedings Act.
Catalyst filed a formal document, entitled “Response to Civil Claim” on December 23, 2010. A copy can be found here.
Catalyst filed affidavits of Steve Boniferro and Brian Baarda in response to the application of the plaintiff for certification of his employment law action as a class proceeding.
In this employment law case we acted as lawyers for Pat Devlin, who had for some years acted as President and Chief Executive Officer of NEMI Northern Energy and Mining Inc. Our client sought and recovered a substantial award based on a contractual clause mandating a termination payment in the event of a dismissal without … Continued
We are bringing an age discrimination claim on behalf of a senior lawyer against a leading inter-national law firm, which we say is forcing his retirement. The Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed the law firm’s challenge to our age discrimination claim. As the Tribunal stated “the parties agree that Mr. McCormick is a skilled lawyer … Continued
We represented the Plaintiff in an employment law action which invoked two main issues. First, the parties disagreed regarding whether there was a breach of contract (constructive dismissal). The Plaintiff had typically worked 60 hours per week during her employment but there was no explicit contractual term entitling the Plaintiff to work a particular number … Continued
Tevlingleadle filed the following on behalf of Mr. Somerville: Notice of Application Affidavit No. 1 of Darryl Somerville Affidavit No. 1 of Chris Forguson
The parties have agreed on the following timetable for steps prior to the Certification Motion: Plaintiff’s Certification Application and supporting Affidavit(s) – Nov 26 Defendant’s responding Affidavits and either Response to Notice of Civil Claim, or Application to extend time to file it – Dec 17 Plaintiff’s Reply Affidavits on certification motion and (if necessary) … Continued
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