Wills, Trusts & Estates
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January 18, 2024
Help wanted: Effective leadership at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario | Brian Cook
The position of associate chair of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) is vacant for the fifth time in as many years. Reporting to the executive chair of Tribunals Ontario, a cluster of 14 adjudicative tribunals, the associate chair is effectively the chair of the tribunal, with responsibility for the recruitment and training of new members, management of the case load, development of procedural rules, as well as adjudicative and policy leadership.
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January 17, 2024
Five new partners added at Clark Wilson
Five lawyers at Clark Wilson LLP have joined its partnership, according to an announcement by the firm.
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January 10, 2024
Supreme Court of Canada judge fell and injured his ribs, but top court says he remains on the job
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Nicholas Kasirer has had a fall that injured his ribs and kept him from participating in a Toronto legal conference where he was scheduled to speak, but the top court told Law360 Canada the Quebec jurist is continuing to “fulfil his duties at the court and there has been no impact on his work.”
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January 10, 2024
Reynolds Mirth adds two partners
Edmonton’s Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer LLP has announced that Lauren Chalaturnyk and Emma Banfield have become partners.
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January 10, 2024
Manitoba regulator outlaws video ID of clients involved in financial dealings
As part of ongoing efforts to protect its members from being used in money laundering schemes, the Law Society of Manitoba has made it so lawyers can no longer use video conferencing to verify the ID of clients involved in financial transactions.
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January 10, 2024
Navigating the digital future: Law Society of Ontario’s virtual verification update
New year, new rules! The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) has started the new year by implementing virtual verification requirements for lawyers and paralegals, effective Jan. 1. As Canadian society moves towards a more digital world, the legal profession is continuing to follow suit by adopting new virtual practices as financial misconduct and fraud continue to be a serious concern in Ontario.
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January 09, 2024
Priority of Crown’s debt over creditors of equal degree
The Crown’s “prerogative of priority” has been enforced in Canada since it was established as a colony of England. See Canada v. Bank of Nova Scotia, [1885] 11 S.C.R. 1 (“the Crown is entitled at common law to a preference … , the Queen’s rights and prerogatives extending to the colonies in like manner as they do to the mother country.”).
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January 08, 2024
Pallett Valo announces six new partners
Pallett Valo LLP welcomed six lawyers to its partnership as of Jan. 1: Ahmed Bulbulia, Monty Dhaliwal, Alan Kay, Andreea Muth, Lisa Sticht-Maksymec, and Maria Tassou.
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January 08, 2024
Three new partners for Aird & Berlis
Aird & Berlis has announced that Yosef Adler, Ryan Ghuman and Queenie Lo have joined the firm as partners and members of the firm’s corporate/commercial group.
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January 03, 2024
Costs submissions invites judicial ‘Oxymoron of the Year’ award
On Dec. 19, 2023, Justice Frederick Myers presided over a high-conflict estate case, Rai v. Bhalla, 2023 ONSC 7182, where the applicant identified 23 heads of relief against five parties, including the Public Trustee, and sought orders for the revocation of a power of attorney; an order for the appointment of a guardian for an elderly parent; an accounting of funds allegedly taken from the estate of the elderly parents; orders for a constructive and resulting trust; and a declaration that the family matriarch’s will was not valid.