“Equity” and how it’s different from “common law” and “statutory law”
Defined Put in a nutshell, it’s when the court concerns itself with fairness. More formally, Black’s Legal Dictionary defines it as: Justice administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of the common law. […] A system of jurisprudence collateral to, and in some cases independent of, “law”; the object of which […]
“Statutory law” and how it’s different from “equity” and “common law”
Defined Statutory law is that body of laws created by legislatures. (Ontario has all statutes, constantly updated, available at its e-laws site.) Such law includes regulations made under the statutes in question if those regulations are properly made pursuant to a valid grant of authority made by the legislature in the statute in question. (This, […]
Email problem
If you have experienced difficulty reaching David Sanders through his [older] “@camberwellhouse.com” email address, we apologize. There was a gap caused by our transfer from one ISP to another. We have now solved the problem [and emails to the older address will continue to reach David], but ask you to change your email address for […]
“Alert: ORPP Phase-In of Contributions Delayed Until January 2018”
From Blake Cassels: “On February 16, 2016, the Ontario and federal governments announced an agreement regarding the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) (Announcement). The Ontario government is proposing to delay phase-in of the ORPP by starting the first phase of contributions in January 2018. ” Citation and further reading: Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP http://www.blakesbusinessclass.com/alert-orpp-phase-in-of-contributions-delayed-until-january-2018/ […]
