Glossary
Assets, sometimes called property, are money and anything you own that has value and can be exchanged for money. This can include cars, jewelry, land, and investments such as an RRSP or a pension plan. Assets can be used or sold to pay debts that you owe.
In Family Law, Income Assistance, Tribunals and Courts, Wills and Powers of Attorney
Assets, sometimes called property, are things that you own. For example, assets include cars, real estate, registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs), and any savings you have.
In Housing Law
Give your rented home permanently to a new tenant, who is called your assignee. The new tenant takes over all your responsibilities such as paying rent. Usually you need the landlord’s permission. Assigning means you have no right to move back in. It is often mistakenly called subletting, but subletting is something different.
An automatic discharge ends the bankruptcy process. It happens when you’re released from most of your unsecured debts without having to go to court.
When someone is bankrupt for the first time, the discharge could happen as early as 9 months after you file for bankruptcy.
In an averaging agreement, you agree to get overtime on the average number of overtime hours you work over 2 weeks or more, not the actual number of hours.
In most jobs, the hours you work over 44 hours a week are overtime hours. And for those hours you get paid 1 ½ times your regular wage.
To average your overtime hours over a certain number of weeks, take the total number of hours you worked in that period and divide by the number of weeks in that period.
Then subtract 44 hours from the total and multiply by the number of weeks in the period to figure out the overtime hours you’ll have.
In Criminal Law
If you are released from custody after a bail hearing it means that you have been given bail. Bail is also known as judicial interim release. This means that the Court is satisfied that if they release you, you will not commit crime, you will show up to your court dates and you will follow all the rules the court gives you while your case is ongoing.
If you are not released after a bail hearing you will be held in custody until your case is over or until you are released from custody on a bail review.
In Abuse and Family Violence, Family Law
A bail hearing is when the person charged with a crime goes to court after they have been arrested. At court, they ask a judge or justice of the peace to decide whether the police can continue to keep them in jail, or whether they must let you go.
The judge might give you “conditions” that you must follow if they let you go. For example, the court might order them to stay away from their partner.
In Criminal Law, Mental health court and drug treatment court
This is a court proceeding to decide whether a person charged with a criminal offence can be released from custody while their case is going on, and if so, on what conditions. In most cases a justice of the peace will conduct the bail hearing with a Crown and a defence lawyer (including duty counsel).
In Criminal Law
The bail program helps people in bail court who do not have anyone they can ask to be their surety. Through the bail program, the accused person is supervised. They must report to a caseworker at regular intervals and follow other conditions if they’re told to. This helps address the court’s concerns about releasing the accused person. The bail program is a stricter type of release than being released on your own recognizance.
In Criminal Law
This is a court proceeding in Superior Court where the result of a bail hearing can be appealed. You can apply for a bail review if you are denied bail at your bail hearing. To succeed, you must show either a change in circumstances or an error of law by the justice of the peace who conducted your original bail hearing.
A change in circumstances is a big change in your life that makes your bail plan more suitable. For example, you may have an additional surety who is able to help supervise you.