Pulse
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June 28, 2024
SCC settles confusion in tax disputes about jurisdictional boundaries of Federal and Tax Courts
In judgments that clarify the jurisdictional boundaries between the Federal Court and the Tax Court in tax disputes, the Supreme Court of Canada has rejected separate appeals by two Canadian companies who challenged how their taxes were assessed by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).
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June 28, 2024
Law firm leadership part five: Lessons learned in fluidity: A mind map for leadership | Gary Mitchell
In today’s rapidly changing business environment, staying rigid and inflexible can be detrimental. This is especially true in the legal profession, where change, chaos and disruption are constants.
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June 28, 2024
Veteran Toronto lawyer starts term as LSO treasurer
The Law Society of Ontario’s (LSO) new treasurer praised his predecessor, spoke of past accomplishments and talked about “ceremony, fellowship and policy.” The LSO’s June 28 Convocation featured remarks by newly elected treasurer Peter Wardle, a Toronto-based commercial litigation and professional liability lawyer who will serve in the role for the 2024-25 term.
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June 28, 2024
Strategic merger of Hillenbrand Kozicki and MLT Aikins announced
Commercial real estate firm Hillenbrand Kozicki LLP and MLT Aikins LLP, which focuses on serving clients in Western Canada, recently announced a merger that will take effect on Sept. 1, 2024, a press release announced.
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June 28, 2024
The homeliest pooch from Coos Bay to Petaluma | Marcel Strigberger
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the ugliest of them all? Wild Thang of course … the eight-year-old Pekingese from Coos Bay, Ore. This poor pooch won first prize at the annual world’s ugliest dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. His owner notes that she entered the guy five times, during which he scored second place three times before recently winning the biggy. For Wild Thang, five was the charm.
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June 28, 2024
Crime school | John L. Hill
Two seemingly unrelated news stories that should concern us broke in the past week. The first story concerned the 124 people arrested by Ontario’s carjacking task force. Police say many were out on bail and rereleased after their latest arrest.
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June 28, 2024
Designing the impossible: A perfect Request to Admit Rule
The recent decision in Khan v. Law Society of Ontario, [2024] O.J. No. 276 has sparked renewed interest by regulators of professions in whether the “request to admit” process can have the effect of streamlining discipline hearings. The Divisional Court upheld a discipline finding based, in large part, on deemed admissions by the lawyer facing discipline who had refused to make admission on the facts contained in a 484-paragraph request to admit that included 310 documents. The discipline hearing panel ruled the facts in the request to admit were deemed to be admitted because the lawyer had failed to properly engage with the process. In essence, the lawyer had responded with a blanket denial (based on legal arguments) without responding specifically to the assertions of fact or the authenticity of the individual documents.
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June 28, 2024
Clark Wilson announces new associate
A recent news release from Clark Wilson LLP announced the addition of Connor Watt as an associate in the firm’s commercial real estate law group.
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June 27, 2024
Canada sanctions ‘extremist settler violence’ against Palestinians
Canada has imposed sanctions on seven Israelis and five entities in Israel “in response to the grave breach of international peace and security posed by their violent and destabilizing actions against Palestinian civilians and their property in the West Bank.”
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June 27, 2024
Ontario has ‘jumped in and done something really proactive’ with homeowner protection law: lawyer
Ontario’s law society is warning practitioners to be mindful of new provincial legislation that banned the registration of notices of security interest for consumer goods on the provincial land registry. Notices of security interest, known as NOSIs, are registrations that may be made on the land registry system by a business when it rents, finances or leases goods such as a water heater or furnace installed on a property.