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A useful reference guide to use throughout your business career This succinct, accessible text written in plain language, is ideal for business students in college and university, who are looking to gain an understanding of business law principles. This book also provides a handy guide for lawyers, law clerks and paralegals who need to know about business law. The book will help recognize and avoid legal risks that affect businesses and consumers on a daily basis.
Broken down into ten short chapters, for easy assimilation and to reflect a teaching term, Business Law in Ontario, 2nd Edition encapsulates the basic principles, with practical examples, and self-test questions to test the reader's understanding.
New In This Edition
Revised commentary to help simplify understanding of the subject matter
New material on pleadings and the litigation process
Updated commentary on the Duty of Honest Performance and Vicarious Liability
New section on Co-operative Corporations
Revised chapters on Intellectual Property and Torts
Who Needs The Book?
Business and law students – written by an experienced author and professor, this text is a valuable teaching tool structured to reflect the academic term
Business owners and managers – written in plain language
Practitioners – good resource to have on-hand as a primer for junior lawyers or refresher forsenior practitioners
Law libraries & Public libraries – have a copy on your shelves for students, lawyers and business owners
Paul Atkinson, B.A., B.Ed., LL.B., LL.M., has taught law courses at Canadian universities and colleges for over thirty years. Paul studied law at the University of Alberta and Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and economics and education at Brock University. Paul worked as a lawyer in Halifax, Nova Scotia and is the author of Proof: Canadian Rules of Evidence, 5th Edition (2021); The Canadian Justice System: An Overview, 5th Edition (2020); Canadian Private Law (2019); and Business Law in Ontario, 2nd Edition (2016).