Technically but not reasonably mistaken, Canadian Lawyer

Neill May is a contributor to Canadian Lawyer magazine.  This article first appeared in the January, 2017 issue.

Excerpt from "Technically but not reasonably mistaken":

Mixed emotions are a dangerous topic of conversation for lawyers, because you can end up hearing about punchlines about a client’s hilarious mixed feelings if her lawyer drives off a cliff in her new Maserati. However, a mixed response is mildly inevitable to the recent Supreme Court of Canada case, Mennillo v. Intramodal Inc. There can be few better advertisements for the benefits of legal services than a case that goes to the highest court because of sloppy corporate paperwork, but I expect that many corporate lawyers have lost sleep over the prospect of technical procedural glitches resulting in massive expense, delay and (worst of all) scrutiny. The court’s decision in the case shed useful light on the difference between failure to observe technical requirements of applicable corporate law and conduct amounting to oppression.