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Health Canada identifies lithium-ion batteries, infant bath seats, and water beads as hazards of concern
Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
United Kingdom | Publication | January 2022
The High Court has once again confirmed that to understand pension scheme documents the courts will focus on the meaning of the words used and attach less weight to the background facts than might be appropriate when interpreting commercial contracts. This is consistent with other recent pensions cases, such as the Court of Appeal’s decision in Britvic PLC v Britvic Pensions.
In De La Rue Plc v De La Rue Pension Trustee Ltd, a careless cross-reference from a deferred revaluation rule into a pension increase rule had created uncertainty about how deferred members’ benefits should be revalued. On a wider interpretation, the rule could be read as giving deferred members a right to the better of statutory revaluation or a scheme-specific revaluation method. Read narrowly, deferred members would only be entitled to statutory revaluation.
Focussing on the wording of the rules, Mr Justice Trower decided that the narrower interpretation (favoured by the scheme employer) was the better interpretation.
This decision confirms once again how critical it is that the utmost care is taken when drafting or amending pension scheme rules to avoid being stuck with unintended benefits. The words used are of paramount importance.
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Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
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An employer’s ability to ask for a sick note when an employee is absent from work due to illness is becoming increasingly curtailed across Canada.
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Since 2022, the Government of Canada has introduced three waves of amendments to the Competition Act (Act), making substantive changes to Canada’s competition laws, with the most recent amendments receiving royal assent on June 20, 2024.
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