Real Estate
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June 13, 2024
Inexcusable: Associate chairs missing in action | Voy Stelmaszynski
The absence of permanent, competent associate chairs at Tribunals Ontario spells disaster for each adjudicative tribunal and betrays a lack of commitment to providing leadership when and where it is most needed. Why are there ongoing vacancies in key leadership positions at Tribunals Ontario?
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June 12, 2024
Saskatchewan regulator details strategic plan progress for 2023
Saskatchewan’s law society made strides last year in rolling out parts of its current Strategic Plan — particularly in promoting diversity and equality, ensuring the competence of new lawyers and increasing access to justice for the incarcerated.
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June 11, 2024
Ex-Chief Justice of Canada says judges of Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal remain independent
In the wake of Beijing’s escalating crackdown on independent voices and institutions in Hong Kong since China enacted and expanded a sweeping “national security law,” Hong Kong’s top court is still independent, retired Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin said as she announced her planned departure next month from the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.
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June 11, 2024
Appeal Court restores $1M award for fire-damaged property in 'important' insurance decision
The Ontario Court of Appeal has reinstated an umpire’s determination that the actual cash value (ACV) of a commercial premises partially destroyed in a fire was $1,084,000, finding that the award was not arbitrary even though it far exceeded the market value of the premises.
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June 11, 2024
Repair right in easement does not create obligation to repair
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice in McKinlay v. Chatham-Kent (Municipality), 2024 ONSC 2811, has recently held that a right by a dominant tenement owner in an easement, which includes a right to repair a drain located on the servient lands does not create an obligation by the dominant tenement owner to make such repair.
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June 11, 2024
Clutter: How to remove it and organize your affairs
Whether it is technological challenges, including accessing the information we need through a portal when it used to come automatically through snail mail, new legislation and increasing tax compliance or keeping our estate planning up to date, many of us feel overwhelmed when it comes to keeping our financial affairs up to date and in order.
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June 10, 2024
New leader of Gowling real estate group announced
Gowling WLG recently announced that Hamilton-based partner Mark Giavedoni is the new leader of the firm’s Canadian real estate sector and practice group.
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June 07, 2024
Devry Smith Frank announces new associate lawyer
A recent news release from Devry Smith Frank LLP (DSF) announced the addition of Mohadeseh Bakhtiari as an associate lawyer.
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June 07, 2024
New innovator-in-residence at Ontario Bar Association
The Ontario Bar Association (OBA) announced in a June 5 news release that it had appointed Colin Lachance as the innovator-in-residence for the 2024-25 year.
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June 07, 2024
SCC rules on interplay of informer privilege & open courts in so-called secret trial case
The Supreme Court of Canada says no “secret” trial occurred during the in-camera prosecution of a confidential police informer in Quebec, but it has ordered 9-0 that a redacted trial judgment should be made public, which contains no information that might identify the police informer in breach of what the top court has previously described as the “extremely broad and powerful” informer privilege.