Unfair Contracts: Oppression
Home › Contracts ›Unfair Contracts: Oppression Unfair Contracts: Oppression Oppression 27 Million Severance UPM-Kymmene Corp v UPM-Kymmene Miramichi Inc, a decision of the Ontario Superior Court dealt with a shareholder…
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Home › Contracts ›Unfair Contracts: Oppression Unfair Contracts: Oppression Oppression 27 Million Severance UPM-Kymmene Corp v UPM-Kymmene Miramichi Inc, a decision of the Ontario Superior Court dealt with a shareholder…
Home › Contracts ›Unsophisticated Party and the “Entire Agreement” Clause Unsophisticated Party and the “Entire Agreement” Clause The Divisional Court in its February 2014 decision in 2190322 Ontario Ltd. v…
Home › Contracts ›Defence: The Entire Agreement Clause Defence: The Entire Agreement Clause Such a clause, which is distinct from a disclaimer clause, yet much to the same legal effect,…
Home › Contracts ›Rules on the Disclaimer Clause Rules on the Disclaimer Clause The issue of disclaimer clauses is important in claims for negligent misrepresentation as often the challenged contract…
Negligent Misrepresentation: Defence of the Disclaimer Clause A review of the test for a negligent misrepresentation claim may be read here. Cognos & Disclaimer Clause Queen v Cognos is the…
Home › Contracts ›Mistake & Rectification of the Employment Contract Mistake & Rectification of the Employment Contract This argument is distinct from unconscionability as reviewed above. Rectification is an unusual…
Home › Contracts ›Equitable Defences to the Contract Equitable Defences to the Contract The resort to the defence of equitable pleas of unconscionability, undue influence and duress are usually hallmarks…
Home › Contracts ›Duress Duress The essential difference between duress and unconscionability is that duress looks to determine whether the consent was freely given, whereas the latter is founded in…
Home › Contracts ›Undue Influence Undue Influence An argument of undue influence, a remedy in equity as is the plea of unconscionability, looks to the issue of the consent to…
Home › Contracts ›Unconscionable Contract Unconscionable Contract An Equitable Remedy Relief from a contractual term that is unconscionable is founded in equity. Cases succeeding in an employment context are rare.…