![]() 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.
Ford v. Peak Products Manufacturing BCHRT 155Human Rights Tribunal awards our client substantial damages and costs for being dismissed from her employment while disabled.
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. Wendy WoloshynResearch Associate604-266-7006 ext.222wendy@kentemploymentlaw.comWendy is a Research Associate and practices in the areas of employment law and general civil litigation. Wendy was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1998. Her legal experience is wide ranging, and includes corporate and securities law work at a large Vancouver firm and a crown corporation, respectively. While her primary role at Kent Employment Law is as the firm’s research lawyer, she also assists and advises the firm’s other lawyers on a variety of employment law matters. Wendy is a former Board member of the Canadian Bar Association’s Women Lawyers Forum Mentoring Project; she also participated in this Project by mentoring junior women lawyers in Vancouver. Wendy is also a co-author or contributor on a number of the articles found on this website, including Continuing Legal Education Papers in 2006 and 2010, and a 2009 Lawyers Weekly article. |