The Supreme Court of Canada has granted Leave in our client’s dispute with his former firm, from which he was forced to resign due to his age of 65 years, although an excellent and productive lawyer on all of the evidence.
The Supreme Court of Canada must be selective in deciding which cases are of sufficient national importance to be heard by the Court. Therefore Murray Tevlin and John Chesko, of our firm, are very pleased that our client’s case has been given Leave to go forward.
Much is in the news about the necessity of people working longer than they had perhaps once planned. Human Rights laws protect most people from forced retirement in most circumstances. The issue here is whether those laws apply to large firms organized under statutes as limited liability partnerships, for example, or other non-traditional or unconventional work arrangements. The heart of the case is toward discerning a legal definition of “employment” for various purposes. This is a central question for most Canadians, we think.
Murray and John are looking forward to being of assistance to the Supreme Court of Canada as it examines this important issue.