How to Guides

With ever-increasing trade and business across the U.S.-Canadian border, lawyers must keep abreast of cross-border legal issues in order to best serve their clients' needs and increase their own business development opportunities.

The Provincial Policy Statement, 2014 is issued under section 3 of the Planning Act. It is effective April 30, 2014 and applies to planning decisions made on or after that date. It replaces the Provincial Policy Statement, 2005.

Gain practical strategies and drafting tools for addressing the essential issues at the intersection of family law, and trusts and estates law.

Essential updates and practical strategies for advocating before Labour Boards, Labour Arbitrators and Human Rights Tribunals.

Get practical tips from the pros on how to be great (if not divine) at this half-day program on key elements such as preparation, e-discovery, credibility, and undertakings.

At this half-day program, prominent litigators will share with you their time-tested strategies and practical advice on topics ranging from preparing your case to the closing argument.

The information in the Toolkit covers federal tax rules under the Income Tax Act and other federal legislation.

The Tax Matters Toolkit will help people who are separating or divorcing understand how tax rules might affect their options and future finances.

Amy Sakalusas, past chair of the CBA’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conference (SOGIC), set the tone for a vigorous debate at Council on a resolution, overwhelmingly adopted, urging Canada’s law societies and its national coordinating body to require all legal education programs to offer equal opportunity to all without discrimination.

In the lead-up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics, a lot of the media attention centred on human rights abuses by the Russian government, specifically the law passed in Russia against anti-gay propaganda.