Should Alberta Reform The Personal Property Security Act?

The Alberta Personal Property Security Act [PPSA] came into force in 1990 and produced a significant improvement in secured transactions in Alberta by removing many of the restrictions and limitations that prevented the use of secured credit. Since 1990, it has become clear that several areas of the law are in need of reform. Online banking and ecommerce as well ambiguities in the law contribute to the need for reform. The PPSA also did not [...]

By |2023-04-24T09:18:04-06:00January 20th, 2021|Latest News, Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Personal Property Security Act, Report for Discussion 35

The Alberta Personal Property Security Act [PPSA] came into force in 1990 and produced a significant improvement in secured transactions in Alberta by removing many of the restrictions and limitations that prevented the use of secured credit. Since 1990, it has become clear that several areas of the law are in need of reform. Online banking and ecommerce as well ambiguities in the law contribute to the need for reform. The PPSA also did not [...]

By |2022-03-14T12:10:28-06:00December 2nd, 2020|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Alberta Non-Profit Corporations: Getting Legislation that Helps

In April 2013, The Muttart Foundation hosted a consultation conference in Banff, Alberta. The Alberta Law Reform Institute had the opportunity to meet with more than thirty experts from Non-Profit sectors across Canada, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom to exchange information and discuss the issues that Alberta Non-Profits face. This report summarizes the consultation and will be invaluable in guiding our recommendations in reforming the primary non-profit corporate legislation in Alberta, the Societies [...]

By |2020-08-05T11:59:20-06:00September 8th, 2013|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Reasonable Accommodation in the Workplace, Consultation Memorandum 2

This memorandum proposes to reform the duty of accommodation in the workplace. In order to help increase participation in the workforce by disabled person and members of other minority or disadvantaged groups. It proposes a duty of accommodation that would prohibit the exclusion of such persons from particular jobs where it is reasonably possible to provide accommodations that allow them to perform the necessary work. This report recommends the enactment of legislation creating an express [...]

By |2021-02-10T14:27:56-07:00November 1st, 1995|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Business Names Legislation, Consultation Memorandum 3

This paper considers the desirability and design of provincial legislation that pursues the regulation of business names and business name disclosure. Business name regulation is for the purpose of limiting the scope for confusion caused by the use of similar names. Business name disclosure requires that firms that use a business name disclose certain information about themselves to the public. This paper discusses the two objectives of business names legislation and then describes the general [...]

By |2021-02-10T14:30:03-07:00December 1st, 1996|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Should a Claim for Punitive Damages Survive Death?, Consultation Memorandum 5

The purpose of this Consultation Memorandum is to invite comment as to whether or not a claim for punitive damages should survive the claimant's death. This memorandum addresses the nature of punitive damages, present Alberta law and its history, reasons for and against allowing punitive damages, and whether reasons for non-survivability of damages for non-pecuniary losses in general apply to punitive damages. Comment is invited on several issues including: should the Survival of Actions Act be amended [...]

By |2021-02-10T14:30:55-07:00December 1st, 1998|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Class Actions, Consultation Memorandum 9

This report makes recommendations to reform the existing procedure for handling a class action and proposes that Alberta enact a modern class actions statute based on the Canadian model that has been enacted in Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia. Primary recommendations would add a procedure to the existing procedural framework for handling litigation involving multiple plaintiffs having the same or similar claims against the same defendant. Ancillary recommendations would add a procedure for handling litigation [...]

By |2021-02-09T11:26:59-07:00December 4th, 2000|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Standardizing Limitation Periods for Actions on Insurance Contracts, Consultation Memorandum 10

When the new Limitations Act came into force on March 1, 1999, a number of changes were made to the limitation law in Alberta. The limitation periods for actions on insurance contracts is in a state of confusion, several of the limitation periods that the Insurance Act prescribes are inconsistent with the general limitation periods in the Limitations Act. The scope of this project addresses issues which relate to rationalizing limitation periods for actions against insurers. The issues addressed and [...]

By |2021-02-09T11:29:54-07:00December 4th, 2001|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Creditor Access to Future Income Plans, Consultation Memorandum 11

This project addresses the question of whether registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs), deferred profit-sharing plans (DPSPs) and registered retirement income funds (RRIFs) should be exempt from the remedies of creditors. The present law is examined in depth, and looks at the conflicting policies relevant to the present study, as well as issues that arise from these conflicts. Issues raised in the memorandum are the pros and cons of whether Alberta law should recognize any exemption [...]

By |2021-02-09T11:31:20-07:00June 4th, 2002|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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