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To be held in conjunction with the Fall Council Meeting of the Ontario Bar Association ("OBA")on Friday, September 19th, 2014 at 7pm.

Congratulations to David Sterns who has been elected Second Vice-President of the Ontario Bar Association. David is a partner at Sotos LLP of Toronto. Congratulations also to Lynne Vicars who has been elected as the OBA’s Treasurer. Lynne is senior legal counsel at Scotiabank.

New consolidated provincial and regional practice directions for all proceedings in the Superior Court of Justice have come into effect following a recent review.

On July 1, 2014, amendments to the Rules of Civil Procedure came into force allowing the Court to stay or dismiss proceedings and motions, on its own initiative, which it considers frivolous, vexatious, or an otherwise an abuse of the process of the court.

The Ontario Bar Association congratulates the Honourable Victoria Starr on her appointment to the Ontario Court of Justice.

Pascale Daigneault, president of the Ontario Bar Association, attended a reception June 11 marking the retirement of Justice Brian Lennox.

Hamilton lawyer John Evans says it is time to get rid of his law books, which were owned by four generations of lawyers in his family, and some of which date back to the 1850s.

Today’s Speech from the Throne, read today in the Ontario Legislature, makes specific mention of legal aid as part of the government’s economic plan, saying it is one of the “necessary foundations” of Ontario’s success.

A group of 13 lawyers are collaborating in the writing, directing, producing and acting of a play that is being staged at Toronto’s Fringe Festival.

The Ontario Bar Association is extending warm congratulations to Janet Minor who has been elected as the new Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada.