A WORD TO THE WISE, And The Confusion That Sometimes Follows
by John McGill
My grandmother had a favorite saying: ‘A word to the wise is sufficient’, meaning of course that I should shape up or the next time I would be in even more trouble. Regrettably I didn’t always understand what I was supposed to do to avoid the “next time”. Courts do this correction with direction in their decisions too, and sometimes that direction is not clear either. A good example is the latest decision in Pacific Caisson & Shoring Inc v Bernard Bros. Inc.