DISCUSSION FORUM 3

Human Resource Management Business law discussion assignment,
DISCUSSION FORUM 3

Drafting contracts can be very tricky. When you work in HR, you most certainly will be using precedents/templates that your company has already established and the originating contract was most likely drafted by a lawyer. However, you may be responsible for using these templates and adjusting the terms and conditions to suit. And this is where you must pay careful attention to the details because one seemingly minor mistake could end up costing your company significant time and expense.

Not only are language, spelling, syntax, and semantics important but you also have to pay attention to punctuation too! This is why we (your instructors) are justified in marking you on your writing skills in this course.

For this discussion forum, you are to share a story that illustrates how a mistake made in a contract negatively affected one of the contracting parties. For example, you can write about:

1) AMJ Campbell v. Kord Products Inc.

2) Bell Canada v. Bell Aliant Region Communication

There are plenty of articles written about the two cases above. However, make sure you cite from a credible source and use CanLII to reference directly from the case law. You can write about the same case as someone else who has posted before you, but make sure you write about a different element or provide a different perspective.

You may select a different case (from the above) to write about as long as it is a contract and/or employment law case and it points to an error in drafting. When writing about a case, make sure to mention the exact clause that caused legal problems and explain why the clause was problematic.

Remember:

This is a law course and the quality of your writing matters; that is why 1 mark out of the possible 5 in your discussion forums is attributed to writing quality.