Ball Professional Corporation
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About Ball Professional Corporation
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Ball Professional Corporation is a Toronto employment and labour law practice that works for both employees and employers, handling everything from severance and dismissal disputes to workplace harassment and discrimination. In more than 35 years of practice, Stacey Reginald Ball has counselled thousands of clients across Toronto and Ontario, from employees and executives to professionals and the employers who hire them.
Ball wrote Canadian Employment Law, the treatise Canada Law Book (part of Thomson Reuters) publishes and refreshes three times a year. Lawyers, law schools and judges across the country use and cite it, and superior courts in every province, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada, have quoted and cited it. Because of the treatise, lawyers, employers and employees across Canada routinely contact Ball for advice on employment law. Ball also receives referrals from law firms across Canada.
At the Supreme Court of Canada, Ball was counsel in Machtinger v. HOJ Industries (1992) and Wallace v. United Grain Growers (1997). In Wallace, Ball argued that an obligation of good faith and fair dealing applies to the way an employee is dismissed. Ball has also appeared before the Canada Industrial Relations Board and other boards and tribunals, has taught at Osgoode Hall Law School and Western University's Faculty of Law, and once edited two Thomson Reuters employment law publications.
Executives, senior managers, physicians and other healthcare professionals, financial and tech workers, salespeople and small business owners are all regular clients. Meeting with clients to work out the rights and remedies they may have is a significant part of the practice, and the firm endeavours to meet clients in a timely and prompt manner.
History
Stacey Ball and Ken Alexander founded Ball & Alexander as an alternative to the bureaucracy of large firms. By 2001 that firm was practising from a turn-of-the-century building in Yorkville at 82 Scollard Street, and in 2006 Ball was still working there under the Ball & Alexander name; a 2008 Law Times story also identified Ball with Ball and Alexander. Ball Professional Corporation practises from the same Scollard Street address today.
Practice areas
Dismissal, severance and constructive dismissal
For employees, the firm looks at whether a termination package is fair, challenges dismissals including those an employer claims were for just cause, and negotiates constructive dismissal claims, taking them to court when it has to. Over 35 years it has negotiated a great many severance deals, employment agreements and settlements of workplace disputes.
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Harassment, discrimination and human rights
Employees who've faced workplace harassment or discrimination can get help filing a human rights complaint, or bringing a civil claim instead, whether that's a tort action such as assault or a wrongful or constructive dismissal case.
Federally regulated employees
Workers under federal jurisdiction, at banks, railways, airlines and similar employers, can get advice on whether to pursue adjudication under the Canada Labour Code or start a wrongful dismissal lawsuit, including where reinstatement with back pay may be available.
Non-competes, restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties
The firm advises on whether a restrictive covenant or non-competition agreement can be enforced and on the limits a fiduciary faces in competing after leaving. It handles post-employment competition, restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties for employers as well as employees.
Work for employers
Employers turn to the firm for employment contracts, exit agreements and termination letters, and for disputes that range from wrongful dismissal and human rights claims to labour arbitrations.
Good to know
Wheelchair accessible
By appointmentHow Ball Professional Corporation works
Settlement comes first. Ball Professional Corporation's strategy is to negotiate a resolution without going to court, and it tries to keep costs down by drawing on its experience in negotiations, while aiming to secure what the client is legally entitled to under Canadian employment law. When a matter can't be resolved that way, Ball takes it to litigation.
Reported cases
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Wilson v. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., 2016 SCC 29
The Court allowed the appeal from the Federal Court of Appeal and restored the adjudicator's decision, holding that employees without a union who work for federally regulated businesses are protected against dismissal much as unionized workers are. Stacey Reginald Ball of Ball Professional Corporation was counsel for the intervener Canadian Association for Non-Organized Employees.
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Matthews v. Ocean Nutrition Canada Ltd., 2020 SCC 26
The Court allowed the appeal, set aside the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal's judgment and restored the trial judgment, clarifying which parts of an employee's compensation count toward reasonable notice. Ball was counsel for the intervener Canadian Association for Non-Organized Employees and presented its oral argument.
Decisions where the firm's lawyers appeared as counsel, from public court records. Past cases don't predict future results.
Milestones & recognition
- Stacey Reginald Ball is recognized in the 20th edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada.
- Ball has been ranked by Lexpert/The American Lawyer among the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.
- Ball is called to the bars of Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.
- Ball is a former executive member of the CBAO Labour section and has chaired and presented continuing legal education programmes for the Canadian Bar Association of Ontario and the Law Society of Upper Canada.
- Ball's articles have appeared in the McGill Law Journal, The Advocates' Quarterly and The Advocate, among other publications.
In the community
- Ball has funded an endowment that pays for a permanent annual scholarship, meant to encourage law students' research in Canadian employment law.
Affiliations & connections
- Canadian Bar Association: Stacey Reginald Ball of Ball Professional Corporation is a member of the Canadian Bar Association.
Lawyers 1
Offices 2
The neighbourhood
The firm's home at 82 Scollard Street is a detached house now in commercial use, listed as a heritage property within the Yorkville Hazelton Heritage Conservation District. Yorkville started out as its own community in 1830 before Toronto annexed it in 1883, and its Victorian homes and residential streets made it into the 20th century largely intact.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Canadian Employment Law cover how courts decide reasonable notice?
- Yes. Entire sections of Stacey Reginald Ball's treatise, Canadian Employment Law, are devoted to the indicia and criteria behind a court's assessment of reasonable notice at common law.
- My union isn't representing me fairly. Can Ball Professional Corporation help?
- Ball Professional Corporation advises workers on whether their union is meeting its duty of fair representation under labour legislation.
- I'm thinking of leaving my job to compete with my employer. Can Ball Professional Corporation advise me first?
- Ball Professional Corporation advises employees before they leave: how much notice they're legally required to give, whether they can take steps to compete, and which workplace documents belong to them and which to the employer. The firm also helps when a former employer threatens legal action or an injunction over post-employment competition.
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