Pluri Vox - Federal Court of Appeal finds that a corporation can employ and "control" its owner - and hire him as an independent contractor, too!

Webb J.A. found that a corporation can have the legal power to control an individual, consistent with that individual being its employee, even though that individual, as its sole shareholder, in turn had legal control of it.

Webb J.A. also noted that, as a legally distinct person, there is nothing preventing a corporation from dealing with an individual in both capacities simultaneously - as an employer and as a contractor.  For example, an individual could be both a corporate director and an independent contractor.

Scott Armstrong.  See summary of Pluri Vox Media Corp. v. The Queen, 2012 FCA 295, under s. 5.