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Apr 27, 2003 · Reasonable Doubts: Directed by Alan Simmonds. With Elizabeth Lackey, Shaun Benson, Richard Thomas, Mark Hildreth. Leon gets a chance to retry the case that made him give up practicing law.
- Alan Simmonds
- 2003-04-27
- Crime, Drama
- 60
- Incompetence
- Insubordination and Insolence
- Insubordination
- Insolence
- Workplace Dishonesty
- Absenteeism and Lateness
- Harassment
- Sexual Harassment
- Workplace Violence
- Off-Duty Conduct
An employer may fire an employee for cause if the employee’s performance is incompetent. Incompetence can refer either to an employee’s lack of capacity to meet a required standard or to an employee’s lack of attentiveness or negligence. An employer has a very high standard to meet if it intends to rely upon an employee’s incompetence as justificat...
In Just Cause: The Law of Summary Dismissal in Canada10the authors note that the terms insubordination and insolence are often used interchangeably. The term insubordination refers to “an employee’s intentional refusal to obey an employer’s lawful and reasonable order” whereas the term insolence refers to “an employee’s derisive, contemptuous and a...
It is a fundamental term of employment that an employee will obey his or her employer’s lawful instructions. Failure to do so may be cause for dismissal, particularly if the insubordination is repeated. Southin J. A. in Stein v. British Columbia (Housing Management Commission)11stated that an employer has a right to determine how his business shall...
Insolence refers to the employee’s use of derisive, abusive or contemptuous language and can involve either verbal or non-verbal forms. It may justify the decision to summary dismissal without the need for the employee to also be insubordinate or neglectful in his or her duty. Nevertheless, in practice, employees dismissed from their employment for...
Employees who have been fired for just cause based on allegations that they engaged in some type of dishonest conduct represent the most common type of justification for summary dismissal. Dishonest conduct includes theft, fraud, breach of trust, and various types of deceptions and misrepresentations. It also includes misrepresentations made to the...
Persistent absenteeism and lateness can lead to an employee being fired for cause if the absenteeism and/or lateness is the result of repeated culpable misconduct. In other words, the employee can be dismissed for cause if the employee is blameworthy for missing work (i.e. slept in, too nice a day to work, went to the theatre instead etc…). Prior t...
An employee who engages in workplace harassment thereby creating a poisoned work environment is at risk of being terminated for cause if the misconduct is of sufficient severity and duration. Workplace harassment has been defined as “engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct against a worker in a workplace that is known or ought reasonab...
In the 2007 decision Foerderer v. Nova Chemicals Corp,26Madam Justice Topolniski provided a useful summary of the law of dismissal for sexual harassment, writing at paragraphs 161 to 163: Sexual Harassment was defined by the Supreme Court of Canada in Janzen v. Platy Enterprises27at 1284, per Dickson C.J. in the following terms: In the 1996 decisio...
An employer has an obligation to protect its employees from workplace violence. Although this legal obligation has always existed as part of an employer’s common law duties in 2010 the obligation was codified in Ontario by way of amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.34The workplace violence and harassment provisions can now be found...
Generally, an employee’s off-duty conduct is irrelevant to his or her employment status and cannot be relied upon by the employer to support a decision to summarily dismiss the employee. However, an employee’s off-duty conduct may become relevant if it has a substantial negative impact on the employer. Obvious examples of off-duty conduct that may ...
"Just Cause" Reasonable Doubts (TV Episode 2003) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Apr 30, 2024 · Reasonable doubt is legal terminology referring to insufficient evidence that prevents a judge or jury from convicting a defendant of a crime. It is the traditional standard of proof that must...
- Daniel Liberto
Jul 27, 2021 · Probable cause is enough evidence to charge a person with a crime, or for a police officer to search a person’s property. It’s enough evidence for a grand jury to indict a person – it’s enough evidence to bring a person to trial, but it’s not enough to convict a person.
Summaries. Leon gets a chance to retry the case that made him give up practicing law. It seems like he learns that there may have been misconduct by the prosecution and Kaplan was the prosecutor. Alex helps him. She finds some witnesses who say that Kaplan ignored and buried some evidence. Kaplan denies doing that.
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Sep 3, 2019 · JUST CAUSE: Just-cause terminations require a high legal burden of proof. The employer must demonstrate that the decision was a reasonable and proportionate response to the alleged wrongdoing. This decision must also take into consideration the surrounding circumstances.
