Real Estate
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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
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.
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June 26, 2024
Competence-competence doctrine | Esther Carenza
The Competence-Competence doctrine is seen in international commercial contracts governed under the International Commercial Arbitration Act S.O., 2017 c 2 Sch 5., which is now cemented in a Canadian contract.
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June 25, 2024
Ontario regulator urges home insurers to improve claims processes amid rise in extreme weather
A new report from Ontario’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) is urging Canadian home insurers to improve their claims processes to better support policyholders — especially as global warming increases the likelihood of extreme weather events.
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June 25, 2024
Canada sanctions Hamas ‘financiers’ in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel
Declaring “we stand with the Israeli people and call for the immediate release of all hostages,” Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly announced dealings and entry bans of nine “financiers” of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and two Hamas-affiliated financial exchange companies, “effective immediately.”
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June 24, 2024
Liberal government’s ‘intransigence’ and undue secrecy spurs litigation: information commissioner
A recent ruling from the Federal Court affirming a disclosure-of-government records order by Canada’s Information Commissioner illustrates the growth in litigation highlighted by the commissioner's 2023-24 annual report to Parliament, a litigation trend she says is fuelled by the Trudeau government’s court challenges and flouting of her legally binding orders.
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June 21, 2024
Public school boards are bound by Charter; tribunals’ Charter rulings reviewed for correctness: SCC
In an important Charter and standard of review case, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that labour arbitrators and other administrative tribunals “should play a primary role” in deciding Charter issues within their bailiwicks — which Charter determinations courts should review on a “correctness” rather than “reasonableness” standard — and that the Charter applies to Ontario public school boards, thereby protecting board employees’ reasonable expectations of privacy in their workplaces and shielding employees from unreasonable search or seizure by their employers.