Media Releases

Through budget consultations, the OBA has urged the government to increase legal aid financial eligibility levels and associated funding as an important way to increase access to justice and help build a sustainable legal aid system in Ontario.

TORONTO – The legal stars of tomorrow will be on full display Thursday as teams of high school students from Windsor, Sudbury, Brantford, Ottawa, Mississauga, Richmond Hill and Brampton compete for the provincial championship of the Ontario Bar Association Secondary School Mock Trial Tournament.

Malcolm Higgins, a retired police officer, hockey dad, and lead singer in an AC/DC cover band, was killed in a car accident five years ago.

The Ontario Bar Association (OBA) and Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) are encouraging Ontarians to register consent for organ and tissue donation this April, and to make a Power of Attorney to ensure that health related wishes are honoured.

Ontario Bar Association is very pleased to welcome United States Consul General Jim Dickmeyer to the Ontario-New York Legal Summit.

TORONTO -- The Ontario Bar Association is calling on the Law Society of Upper Canada to adopt a non-discrimination requirement for all current and future law programs in order for their graduates to be recognized for admission to the bar in Ontario.

The Ontario Bar Association is calling for the government’s proposed anti-SLAPP legislation, now being debated at second reading, to proceed to committee.

The Hon. Annemarie Bonkalo, Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, and l’AJEFO, l’Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario, will be honoured as recipients of the Ontario Bar Association’s President’s Award.

David Usher, Juno Award winning musician, to speak on creativity

Treaties must be “honoured and enforced”