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At TPL’s Lillian Smith Library tomorrow, Community Legal Education Ontario will be launching its new series of standard pamphlets of starter kit information for recent immigrants.
The materials, which are also available in English and French, cover the following topics:
* Children’s aid: Information for parents
* Criminal charges in [...]
Handy chart summarizing changes to Ontario’s Rules of Civil Procedure
[A post for Ontario lawyers]
As of January 1, 2010, big changes to three parts of Ontario’s Rules of Civil Procedure came into effect. These changes are intended to streamline the litigation process and increase access to justice. Many of the changes to the rules are a result of the Civil Rules Committees (CRC) consideration of [...]
Ontario courts ease into the era of proportionality
It has been a little over a month since the changes to the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure have brought in “proportionality” as a governing principle and brought in specific directions regarding proportionality in the discovery process. This is a summary of a quick case law review I conducted for recent Ontario civil procedure decisions [...]
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Craig Brown on the Apology Act
I’ve covered the Apology Act on Slaw before, and Dan Pinnington has touched on the implication for insurers.
One of my professors at UWO, Dr. Craig Brown, has taken it a step further, and suggests it may even assist insurers. Dr. Brown is the author of Insurance Law in Canada, probably the foremost work in this [...]
Class actions against law firms on the horizon
Three cases that are making their way through the Ontario court system have a few things in common: they’re all recent, all under the Class Proceedings Act, they’re all significant claims and they all name prominent Toronto law firms as defendants.
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E-Health Records Symposium
On January 28, 2010, the Law Commission of Ontario and IP Osgoode held a Symposium on electronic medical records. The Symposium brought together experts from law, academia, health and other areas as part of the consultation that Professor Pina D’Agostino is carrying out in her project on the intersection of IP, ethics and privacy issues [...]
Posted in Conferences and Seminars, Document Management, Intellectual Property Law, Knowledge Management, Law Reform, Law and technology, Medical Issues, Ontario, Privacy Law | No Comments »>
When Will Ontario Courts Assume Jurisdiction Over Out-of-Province Defendants?
A 5-member panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal released a significant, 150-paragraph reasoned decision this morning involving conflicts of laws and when Ontario should take jurisdiction over out-of-province defendants – see:
Van Breda v. Village Resorts Limited, 2010 ONCA 84
http://www.ontariocourts.on.ca/decisions/2010/february/2010ONCA0084.htm
At issue were claims for personal injury damages occasioned as a result of accidents suffered [...]
This Week’s Biotech Highlights
One of the reasons I started the Cross-Border Biotech Blog a year ago was that the industry in Canada was in terrible shape. In the face of a global financial crisis, biotech as an industry was attracting some attention and some bailout funding, but by July last year, 70% of Canadian biotech companies reported having under 6 [...]
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Error on currency date on e-Laws website (Ontario)
Are there any concerns from a risk management / liability perspective over the following warning/error message on the e-Laws website I noticed just now:
NOTICE OF ERROR
From December 18, 2009 to December 29, 2009, the e-Laws currency date should have been December 14, 2009.
See the screenshot here:
Do you review all of your legislative research from [...]
Posted in Legal Research, Legislation, Ontario | 2 Comments »>
A new blog on the New Ontario Rules?
While doing my monthly domain name shopping, I stumbled upon what might be an interesting blog: http://www.ontariorulesofcivilprocedure.com/ It was created only 3 days ago and has no content, except the logo of the law firm behind it: Fraser Milsner Casgrain. Can someone tell me what is the big red square on top of their logo?
Posted in Blogs, Civil Procedure, E-Discovery, Ontario | 2 Comments »>
The LCO and E-learning
Omar Ha-Redeye’s post about e-learning earlier this week prompts me to disclose a possible Law Commission of Ontario e-learning course, in conjunction with Ontario law schools. The LCO is in the process of renewal and one on-going issue is the relationship with the Ontario law schools, especially those schools other than Osgoode (which provides funding [...]
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This Week’s Biotech Highlights
This week in biotech focused on cost effectiveness, as everyone from Ontario to Florida and from VCs to pharma companies continue to look for ways to squeeze the most out of every dollar.
In Florida, a report assessing the state’s progress in attracting high value life science jobs showed that in the first six years of [...]
Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen
For many years now my firm, Adler Bytensky Prutschi, has enjoyed the opportunity to host a student placement for Osgoode Hall Law School’s Criminal Intensive Program (CIP). This week, for the first time in the history of our involvement with the program, we were informed that “due to low enrolment in the course this [...]
Posted in Articling Students, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Criminal Law, Law Firm Finances, Ontario | 3 Comments »>
Supporting Our Troops by Supporting Their Employers
Yesterday’s National Post contained an interesting story regarding government programs around the world targeted at employers of military reservists. In an effort to support troops overseas legislators in the U.K. and Australia have enhanced job protection laws while simultaneously creating compensation programs that pay employers of reservists a stipend to help offset the loss [...]
Posted in Canada, Law Firm Management, Military Law, Ontario, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »>
David A. Ward (1931 – 2010)
We note the passing of David Anthony Ward, one of the founders of Davies Ward, Phillips & Vineberg, and one of the leading authors on Canada’s Tax Treaties.
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