How to settle disputes between business partners

Business disputes can become public quickly and impact even successful businesses. In recent media reports, there has been speculation that business owners of the well-known athleisure brand PE Nation, Pip Edwards and Claire Tregoning, are ‘feuding’.

The brand has denied the rumours. But it raises the question: “how do you resolve disputes between business partners?”

Business partnerships can be an excellent way to start and run a successful business and often do well when the partners are aligned. However, disagreements among partners can quickly arise, leading to legal disputes that can disrupt or even destroy the business. It’s crucial for

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Special counsel probing classified documents seeks to question Trump attorney, source says

Special counsel Jack Smith, who is investigating former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, is leaning up pressure on one of Trump’s lawyers to testify before a grand jury, a person familiar with the matter told CBS News Thursday.

Prosecutors argue that they need to learn more about an alleged June 24, 2022, call between Trump and his lawyer, Evan Corcoran. At the time, investigators were seeking to secure documents at Trump’s home and video surveillance tapes of Mar-a-Lago.

ABC News first reported that investigators were seeking to question Corcoran.

The person familiar with the investigation told CBS News

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Northern BC law students tackle CGL issues

A national court competition focused on Indigenous issues and the Coastal GasLink Pipeline

Northern British Columbian residents participated in the 2023 Kawaskimhon Moot, a court competition that has participants from nearly every law school in Canada.

The competition took place earlier this month and was hosted by the University of Victoria Faculty of Law.

Kawaskimhon is a nêhiyawêwin (Cree language) word that means “speaking with knowledge.”

This moot is unique in that it centers Indigenous legal orders alongside federal, provincial, and international laws.

It is consensus-based and non-adversarial and this year focused on the legal issues surrounding the Coastal GasLink

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Municipalities feeling impacts of new housing law

More than three months after Ontario promised to make municipalities “whole” on a loss of development charge revenue, municipal politicians say they’ve yet to see any movement

TORONTO — It has been more than three months since Ontario promised to make municipalities “whole” on a loss of development charge revenue due to a new provincial law, and they say they’re concerned they’ve seen little to no movement.

One large city says it is already feeling the impacts of the law financially, another is delaying a housing-related project due to the uncertainty, and municipalities across the province are passing budgets on

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Trump probably won’t talk to a grand jury in Stormy Daniels case: lawyer

WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump probably will not testify before a New York City grand jury that is considering indicting him over hush money to an alleged former mistress, his attorney said Monday.

“We have no plans on participating in that proceeding,” Trump attorney Joe Tacopina told ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “Decision needs to be made still. There’s been no set deadline, so we’ll wait and see.”

A Manhattan grand jury is investigating the $130,000 that went to former porn star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election.

The Daniels case:Former Trump attorney Cohen to testify before NY

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Space Law Update: One person’s space junk is another’s treasure – who is legally responsible for damage caused by space debris?

Why space junk matters

On 4 May 2022, a heavy piece of unidentified metal crashed through the ceiling of a young Gympie family’s home – narrowly missing the bouncer in which their baby daughter had been lying moments earlier. Less than six months later, four pieces of space junk – which the United Nations says originated from SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience – were discovered in paddocks in and around the Snowy Mountains region.

Fortunately, no one was harmed and minimal property damage occurred as a result of these incidents. However, debris in low-earth orbit has increased by 50% in the

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Aluminum Is Now A Hot Topic In Supply Chain And Trade

Last Friday, February 24, 2023, the Biden Administration issued a Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Aluminum into the United States. You can read the full proclamation here.

Aluminum Is Now A Hot Topic In Supply Chain And Trade

The Proclamation states that, beginning on March 10, 2023, a 200% ad valorem tariff will be imposed on all aluminum articles and derivative aluminum articles produced in Russia. Additionally, on April 10, 2023, a 200% ad valorem tariff will be imposed on aluminum articles where any amount of primary aluminum or derivative aluminum articles used in the manufacture of the articles was smelted or cast in Russia.

The purpose of the Biden Administration’s

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New legislation will reduce barriers for people

British Columbia will become the first province in Canada to systematically amend provincial laws to remove outdated gendered and binary language, better reflecting the diversity of the province and ensuring everyone can access provincial programs and services.

Brenda Bailey, Minister of Jobs, Economic Development and Innovation, has introduced new modernizing legislation to correct outdated language by amending more than 2,300 instances of outdated gendered and binary terms from 21 ministries across 210 provincial statutes.

“Words have a powerful effect, whether written or spoken, and all British Columbians deserve to see themselves reflected in BC’s programs and services,” said Bailey. “We

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