Ontario Court of Appeal Reaffirms Franchisee Protections in Franchise Disclosure Regime

Background Historically, when considering whether or not to open a franchise, a potential franchisee would have only the information provided by the franchisor company to rely on. Without any regulatory oversight, franchisors would often only disclose incomplete, or sometimes even inaccurate information, and due to their very limited bargaining power, most franchisees would often have […]

By |2019-05-20T07:35:34-04:00April 30, 2018|Articles, Business Law|

Listen up creative industries: having this clause in your service agreement can help protect your brainchild

Consider this scenario: Your company, BestDesignCorp (“BDC”), is hired by WeAdvertiseCorp (“WAC”) to come up with a design for their upcoming advertising campaign. WAC will pay you in installments upon certain milestones being achieved. BDC gets paid $25,000 after delivering a preliminary design to WAC, which is calculated as 25% of the total work being […]

By |2019-05-20T07:38:28-04:00April 20, 2018|Articles, Business Law, Hugues Boisvert|

Dean Blachford and Karen Cheung Published in Tax Advocate

OTTAWA, Ontario – April 20, 2018 – HazloLaw Tax Litigation Lawyer Dean Blachford and Law Student Karen Cheung have been published in the April 2018 edition of Tax Advocate. Their article explores the legal tests for determining when income is situated “on reserve” for purposes of obtaining an exemption under Section 81 of the Income Tax […]

By |2019-05-15T07:13:22-04:00April 20, 2018|News, Tax Litigation|

Another Free Trade Agreement on the horizon? Canada and Mercosur negotiating towards a comprehensive FTA

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By |2019-05-15T07:13:35-04:00April 19, 2018|International Law, News|

If you are a business owner and your client owes you money, don’t forget this crucial step

In an ideal world, every person you lend money to will pay you back and every customer/client will pay you for your services. Unfortunately, we do not live in that world and people, for a variety of reasons, sometimes refuse to pay their debt and/or disagree with the amount owed. In these situations, most businesses […]

By |2019-05-20T07:41:16-04:00April 16, 2018|Articles, Business Law, Hugues Boisvert|

FinDev Canada is operational to help the private sector in developing countries

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By |2019-05-15T07:13:52-04:00April 3, 2018|International Law, News|