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An Update To Our Clients About COVID-19

Pushor Mitchell strives to provide a safe work environment for its employees, to protect its clients, and cooperate within its communities as we respond to COVID-19.

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Oral Contracts and Agency: Working out Who Owes What

For a host of reasons, folks often enter contracts through verbal agreement either not fully appreciating that they are entering into a binding contractual relationship or because one or more parties has refused to agree to reduce the contract to writing.

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Expanding the Scope of Work: Renegotiate, Capitulate or Litigate

It is an unfortunately common story in construction litigation: parties agree on a scope of work and price, the scope of work changes and the parties don’t go back to the bargaining table to reach an agreement on the new scope of work.

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Powers of Attorney and Your Financial Institution

A Power of Attorney, if used carefully, is an important estate planning tool. This legal document is commonly prepared to provide for situations where a person cannot manage his or her own affairs.

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Definitive Authority on Derivative Actions in BC

Intra-company disputes often involve two broad categories of remedies: oppression: where a minority shareholder claims they are being disadvantaged by the majority in some fashion and seek to have the court exercise its broad statutory discretion to correct the issue; and derivative actions: where a shareholder or director seeks to have the court compel a […]

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Two New Paid Leaves for Employees: Temporary COVID Leave and Permanent Sick Leave

British Columbia recently passed legislation requiring employers to provide employees with two new separate paid leaves.

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Can A Relationship Conducted Virtually be a Marriage-like Relationship?

A recent interesting court decision came out last week from the B.C. Supreme Court.

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Release of Consumer Information Brochure on Pre-Sale Purchases

The Office of the Superintendent of Real Estate (OSRE) has released a new information brochure for consumers looking to purchase a pre-sale condo.

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Estate Planning – Corporate Considerations

There are a number of important considerations which arise where an estate planning client holds shares in a company including legal, tax and financial considerations.

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A Collapsing Construction Project without a Contract: Sorting out the Parties’ Rights

Whenever parties fail to fully document the contractual agreement between them, the risk of litigation is heightened given the lack of prescribed remedies and consequences in addition to a wide spectrum of issues.

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