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Law Bytes: Summary Judgment Motions and Credibility Issues (Raghurai v. Chung)

If a party fails to provide satisfactory responses or declines to address valid inquiries during the discovery or cross-examination process, a motion for undertakings and refusals might be needed. This motion requests the court’s intervention to compel the party being examined to comply with their undertakings or address questions that were inappropriately refused.

Law Bytes: Claims Against Cryptoasset Trading Platforms

[I]n a still-developing area of law in Ontario dealing with privacy torts, [revenge porn] may also trigger a monetary damages award in the context of a civil claim. In tort law, it falls within a category of privacy torts referred to as publication (or public disclosure) of private facts.

[T]he common law dealt with dog bites/attacks on the basis of scienter (knowledge) or negligence . . . Ontario modified all of this with the introduction of the Dog Owners’ Liability Act.

An incorporated company is one of the most common ways of conducting a business. The corporation is a separate person in the eyes of the law – it’s a separate legal entity. It’s “separate” because it’s a separate legal entity from the people who own the corporation (who are called shareholders). It’s a “person” because it has the capacity, rights, powers, and privileges of a natural person.