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Alberta Unlimited Liability Corporations
May 24, 2005
Amendments to the Alberta Business Corporations Act (ABCA) are
in force as of May 17th, 2005. The most significant amendment to the ABCA is the
ability to create unlimited liability corporations in Alberta. An Alberta
unlimited liability corporation (ABULC) is, as the title suggests, a corporation
whose shareholders have unlimited liability for any liability, act or default of
the corporation.
Fixing a Troubled Outsourcing Deal
May 01, 2005
Author, "Fixing a Troubled Outsourcing Deal", CIO Canada
Magazine (IT World Canada), pages 28-29, May 2005.
Four Key Steps For Privacy Compliance
April 02, 2005
As your organization works towards compliance with Canada's
private sector privacy legislation, consider undertaking these four
key steps and their component activities.
Selecting a Privacy Officer
April 02, 2005
A privacy officer is the individual whose principal privacy-related
task is to be responsible for ensuring that a business complies
with applicable mandatory privacy law. As described below,
depending on an organization's approach to privacy, the
privacy officer may have other privacy-related functions as well.
The Impact of Privacy
April 02, 2005
Effective January 1, 2004, most organizations operating in Canada
are required to ensure that they collect, use and disclose
“personal information” in accordance with the
applicable federal and provincial privacy legislation.
Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring
March 15, 2005
This article provides an overview of the recent developments in Insolvency and Corporate Restructuring. In reviewing the past year, the authors indicate a somewhat general let-up in activity in the insolvency bar, a growing trend toward longer and more drawn-out restructurings in Canada and a continuation of the process of legislative reform.
2004 Year in Review (Hong Kong)
January 01, 2005
Michael Olesnicky and Steven Sieker "2004 Year in Review (Hong
Kong)", Tax Notes International (January 2005) pp 48-51
Litigation in Canada
January 01, 2005
"Litigation in Canada" (with Sarah Armstrong) in Winnipeg Legal
Strategies: International Litigation, Aspatore (2005)
Taxation of Stock Options Granted Qua Consultant
January 01, 2005
Anu Nijhawan and Tamara Larre, "Taxation of Stock Options
Granted Qua Consultant", (December/January 2005) XVI(5)
Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement 496.
Reprinted with the permission of Federated Press.
The 'Vanishing Trial': The College, The Profession, The Civil Justice System
January 01, 2005
"The 'Vanishing Trial': The College, The Profession, The Civil
Justice System" (The Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of the Civil
Trial of the American College of Trial Lawyers) (2005), 226
Federal Rules Decisions 414
Restitution of Invalid Taxes Revisited
January 01, 2005
In "Restitution of Invalid Taxes Revisited," published in Tax
Litigation, Martin Sorensen discusses three cases involving
the recovery of invalid taxes and some of the fundamental points
that have arisen.
Protecting Solicitor-Client Privilege
November 26, 2004
Solicitor-client privilege protects communications made between a lawyer and his or her client that are made in confidence for the purposes of obtaining or providing legal advice. Solicitor-client privilege is an important tool in the context of tax planning and future tax litigation as it can be used to keep tax planning documents out of the hands of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), other taxation authorities and the courts.
Source Withholdings: Non-Resident Employees “Visiting” Canada
November 26, 2004
Due to the growth of foreign business activities in Canada, it has become commonplace for employees of foreign corporations to occasionally visit Canada to, for example, briefly attend a meeting or tour Canadian facilities.
Open Season on Analysts?
November 2004
It's not easy to be a financial analyst or advisor these days. Already under siege by various regulators who are increasingly paying attention to misleading 'stock pumping', and investors claiming they were duped by shoddy advice, financial analysts have a new potential adversary: the company that the advisor is covering itself. In a decision released this Summer, one Ontario judge may have opened the door to new claims by companies who feel aggrieved by negative coverage by financial analysts. But the sky hasn't fallen yet, argue Robert W. Staley and Derek J. Bell.
Canadian Cartels and Leniency
September 20, 2004
These two articles provide current insights into Canadian
competition law. The first addresses the international cartel
phenomenon that has emerged in the past decade and its impact on
Canadian competition law. The authors review current laws and
discuss how Canadian competition law is being modernised in an
attempt to keep abreast of current economic thinking. The second
provides an insight into Canada's Competition Bureau with
commentary by the authors. Originally published in the The
Antitrust Review of the Americas (2005).
The Limitations of Deferred Share Unit Plans - August 2004
August 01, 2004
Anu Nijhawan, "The Limitations of Deferred Share Unit Plans", (July/August 2004) XVI(1) Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement 440. Reprinted with the permission of Federated Press.
Bennett Jones