🏠 Home › 📁 Investigations Index › Privilege and Workplace Investigations Privilege and Workplace Investigations Overview The two privileges important to a workplace investigation are solicitor client and litigation privilege.
A summary of the law on these various topics then is as follows: A search of stored electronic communications and notes which violates the expected confidence of the employee
🏠 Home › 📁 Investigations Index › Litigation Privilege Litigation Privilege Trend to Disclosure The Supreme Court in its 2006 decision in Blank v Canada stated, what was subsequently interpreted
B.C.’s Privacy Act creates a statutory tort. It applies where one person “wilfully and without a claim of right” violates the privacy of another. The nature and degree of privacy,
🏠 Home › 📁 Investigations Index › Intrusion on Seclusion Intrusion on Seclusion A private employer, and presumably the investigator, could be sued for breach of the expected privacy of
🏠 Home › 📁 Investigations Index › Protection of Public Interest Protection of Public Interest This issue arose recently in a case in which the party who had complained of
🏠 Home › 📁 Investigations Index › Investigations: Qualified Privilege Investigations: Qualified Privilege An investigator appointed to inquire into allegations of wrongdoing will have a legal duty to provide the
🏠 Home › 📁 Investigations Index › Example of Unfair Investigation: Peoples v Ontario Example of Unfair Investigation: Peoples v Ontario A similar conclusion was reached in a 2008 decision
🏠 Home › 📁 Investigations Index › Investigations: Workplace Policy Manual Investigations: Workplace Policy Manual This is the suggested wording of a Policy Manual on Harassment, Discrimination and Workplace Violence.
🏠 Home › 📁 Investigations Index › Investigations: Privilege: External Regulators Investigations: Privilege: External Regulators The decision of the B.C. Supreme Court in Thomson v Berkshire involved a claim which