2024

Benefits and Pensions Monitor Online highlights two presentations from the OBA’s March 5th CPD session, “Hot Spots: Changes to Ontario’s Pension Landscape – For Better or For Worse

The OBA Public Sector Lawyers Section is pleased to announce that the 2015 Tom Marshall Award for Excellence recipient is Mary Ellen Bench.

The OBA Insurance Law Section is pleased to announce the 2015 Award for Excellence in Insurance Law: Alf Kwinter (Toronto) and Owen J.R. Smith, Q.C. posthumously (New Liskeard)

The OBA Institute 2015 took place February 4-7, 2015 in Toronto and was a tremendous success.

To protect the interest of all parties, the Ontario Bar Association does not wish to comment on any specific case before the court. Recent publicity around the arrest of a lawyer in court attire at an Ontario Courthouse raises important issues of general principle.

OBA Institute’s Health Law session provided a behind-the-scenes look at how Ontario developed its recent e-cigarette legislation and has triggered some good discussions among the legal community.

Canadian Lawyer InHouse covers the crisis communication session at OBA Institute and offers a good read regarding the value of in-house counsel in risk management.

Osler’s Jennifer Fairfax’s presentation at the Environmental Law session at OBA Institute 2015 has raised some good discussions about environmental class actions in Canadian common law.

Toronto, ON – OBA Institute kicks off today and is expected to bring more than 1500 of Ontario’s lawyers and judges to Toronto.

Looking back at 2014, OBA member Gareth Gibbins helped lead submissions to Ontario’s Ministry of Finance that saw welcomed improvements to the Pension Benefits Act.