Watson Goepel is thrilled to announce that six of our lawyers have been recognized in Best Lawyers in Canada™ 2026 and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch™ in 2026 for their remarkable success and excellence in their area of expertise.
A decision of the British Columbia Supreme Court released on May 23, 2019 makes it clear that insurance companies will need to strictly comply with statutory obligations in drafting policies, or risk losing the protections afforded under a policy.
The head of Watson Goepel’s Family Law Group will be presenting on “Difficult Cases Involving Aging Clients” at the Collaborative Divorce Vancouver’s Older and Wiser: The Phenomenon of Grey Divorce conference being held May 23-24.
Watson Goepel LLP was proud to sponsor the Corpus Christi College and St. Mark’s College at UBC: Dinner at the Gallery fundraising event on February 20th, with lawyers Celso Boscariol and Anita Boscariol in attendance. They are seen here with Peter Meehan, President of the Colleges.
For some, hiring a lawyer to represent them in their matter is simply not a financial option. In other cases, individuals start their case with representation but eventually run out of money and need to terminate their lawyer’s services before their matter is resolved.
Celso Boscariol K.C. presented at the University of Milan, School of Law on May 2nd, 2019 on the topic of Doing Business in Canada: Impact of the Comprehensive Economic & Trade Agreement (CETA).
You may or may not have been asked for your input on what should happen regarding parenting plans. Research suggests that very few parents actually sit down with you to talk about the separation and the reasons for it, so you may even be in the dark about where you are going to live. Parenting issues have probably been resolved without a lot of input from you. What people don’t always realize is, after the divorce, things sometimes get even worse.
The Thomas v Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. line of cases was initiated by the Saik’uz and Stellat’en First Nations, located west of Prince George (the “First Nations”) as a claim for damages against a private defendant for alleged harm to proprietary interests based on a claim of asserted, but unproven, Aboriginal rights and title. This case presented the opportunity for a new development in aboriginal law.
On June 13, 2019, significant changes are being introduced that will directly affect corporations registered federally under the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA). The pending changes are designed to bring the CBCA into compliance with Financial Action Task Force recommendations made in October 2018, specifically recommendations 10 and 22 which were intended to prevent the misuse of Canadian financial institutions by corporations for purposes of tax evasion, corruption, money laundering and terrorist funding activities.
Anyone can be fired, but there are protections in place for employees who are terminated without good reason – what is known in employment law as without “just cause”.
One such case that caught my eye was M.W.Z and G.Z. v The Province of British Columbia. In this case the parents had adopted a child from Nepal in 2006. They applied to the Court in 2017 to not only change their daughter M’s name, but to change her date of birth to make her ‘legally’ 2½ years older than what they were told when she was first adopted.
If you follow local media coverage, you will know that changes in the real estate market in the Lower Mainland of B.C., and Vancouver in particular, are having far reaching effects. These effects ripple down to family law cases too. In many situations where people are separating or divorcing and also have to deal with shared real property, the changes in market value of their home, or the new mortgage qualification rules, are making the settlement of property issues more challenging than they may have been in previous years.
