In this leading employment law case we represented a senior manager at Norkse Skog’s Crofton pulp and paper mill who was wrongfully dismissed. Mr. Tull had worked for the defendant and its predecessors for 14 years, and was awarded damages based on a 20 month notice period. Mr. Tull’s claim included a claim for damages … Continued
Counsel for Freightliner have scheduled an examination for discovery of Peter Gregg, the representative plaintiff, at the offices of TevlinGleadle on February 19th, 2004.
The Employment Class action includes two subclasses. One class is for individuals who are resident of British Columbia, the other is for persons who are residents of any other jurisdiction. The Certification Order mandates certain steps to notify each person in both of the two classes, and then gives a period of time (until September … Continued
On June 30, 2003 Judge Bennett formally ordered that the employment law claim of Peter Gregg be certified as a class proceeding, with two classes. These two classes (one of BC residents, and one of non-BC residents) are more particularly described in the formal order which can be viewed by clicking the link below. Certification … Continued
Pension benefits are of critical importance to a great number of Canadian workers. As our working population ages, those persons who have contributed to a pension plan look closely at the pension payments they can expect to receive on retirement. In the event of termination before normal retirement age, this issue is often critical for dismissed workers.
Because the proceeding was intitally commenced as a joint action for pension and employment law claims, after the severance, it was necessary to start a new action for the employment law claims. A new action was commenced on April 4, 2003. Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim, revised to exclude Pension Claims
In this wrongful dismissal action we were lawyers for a senior vancouver police inspector who had invented the investigative tool of Geographic Profiling for making efficient use of police resources in serial murder cases. Trial Judgement Appeal Judgement The important employment law case received some interest in the media: Vancouver Province, October 18, 2001 Vancouver … Continued
On Thursday, February 13, 2003 the Honourable Judge Elizabeth Bennett pronounced Reasons for Judgement certifying the Western Star proceeding as a class action under the Class Proceedings Act. As well, the judge ordered that the pension claims and the employment claims be “severed”. This has required class counsel to commence a separate action for the … Continued
Tuesday, October 15, 2002 TevlinGleadle appeared again in the British Columbia Supreme Court before Madam Justice Bennett, and presented submissions as to why the action commenced in this proceeding should be certified as a class action: Copy of Plaintiff’s Memorandum of Argument in favour of Certification Submissions were made by counsel for Freightliner and the … Continued
On Tuesday, October 15, 2002 TevlinGleadle (Murray Tevlin, Dan Gleadle & Dagmar Dlab) appeared again in the British Columbia Supreme Court before Madam Justice Bennett, and presented submissions as to why the action commenced in this proceeding should be certified as a class action: Copy of Plaintiff’s Memorandum of Argument in favour of Certification Submissions … Continued
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