Lewis v. Terrace Tourism Society. 2010 BCCA 346
A majority of the Court of Appeal agreed that our client had been wrongfully dismissed and that she did not repudiate her employment contract when she sued her employer for wrongful dismissal. The case was sent back to the Supreme Court for a calculation of damages.
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Ford v. Peak Products Manufacturing BCHRT 155
Human Rights Tribunal awards our client substantial damages and costs for being dismissed from her employment while disabled.
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Lewis v. Lehigh Northwest Cement Limited 2009 BCCA 424
Our client appealed certain aspects of a trial decision in which he was awarded 22 months of severance. We also successfully defended a cross-appeal by the employer where they argued that Mr. Lewis had failed to mitigate his damages.
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Dismissing the Probationary and Short-term Employee:
Has the Court recognized the imbalance of power or have judges simply gone too far?Click here to read the article (July 2007)
Wrongfully dismissed employees get paid by invoking doctrine of common employer.
Click here to read the article (June 2007)Expedited Litigation Project
Rule 68 is a B.C. Supreme Court Rule that establishes an expedited ligitation pilot project. The Rule, and therefore this project, were in effect as of September 1, 2005 and will remain in place until at least September 1, 2007.Click here to read the article
Losing your job
Simon wrote an article for the web site "www.canada.lawyers.com" with some initial advice for employees that have been dismissed from their employment.Click here to read the article
Employment Law Summary Trials
Simon co-authoured a paper for the CLE Conference entitled - You’re Fired – Selected Issues on Employment Law Summary Trials.Download the pdf
