A claim number is the unique number that the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) gives to each injury you report. It’s on the first letter that you get from the WSIB and all other WSIB documents about your injury.
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A clearance certificate is a document that an estate trustee gets from Canada Revenue Agency. It confirms that all money the person who died owed to the Canada Revenue Agency has been paid.
When you apply for a job or volunteer position, you might be asked for a criminal record check. Instead of a criminal record check, you may be able to get a clearance letter from your local police.
A clearance letter confirms that as of the date of the letter, you don’t have any:
- criminal convictions
- outstanding warrants
- criminal cases that are being dealt with in court
At the end of your trial, you get a chance to briefly tell the judge why you should get the court order you're asking for. This is called a closing statement. Your closing statement should be based on:
- what you or other witnesses said
- the documents used as evidence
- family law rules and laws
You cannot talk about any new information that wasn’t used as evidence in the trial.
The co-accused are other people who are charged on an information with you. They may or may not be charged with the same offences as you. But their charges are related to yours. Their charges and yours likely involve the same incident.
A co-owner of a debt is someone who owns part of the money that a person is owed. For example, two people who share a joint bank account are co-owners of the debt.
To co-sign is to sign a legal agreement together with another person for a loan or other debt. When you do this you are jointly responsible for paying the debt. For example, if you co-sign a lease, you are responsible for paying all of the rent, even if the other person doesn’t pay their part.
A code of ethics is a set of rules that say what members of an organization or profession can do, and how they are supposed to behave and run their business. For example, a non-profit credit counsellor will protect a client’s privacy and not share information about a client without getting permission.
A cohabitation agreement, sometimes called a domestic contract, is a written contract that non-married partners can make that says how they will deal with their issues while they are living together, after they stop living together, or if one of them dies. They can make this kind of contract before living together, or while living together. For example, a cohabitation agreement can say how much spousal support one partner will pay the other if they separate. It cannot say who will have custody or access to any children.