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The Separation of Statutes: The Effects of Bankruptcy on Spouses

  • June 30, 2021
  • Nadine Saba, Michael MacNaughton Student Writing Award finalist

In this paper, the author argues that legislative reform is necessary to ease the impact of the treatment of divorcing spouses as unsecured creditors in a bankruptcy. Nadine Saba first provides an overview of the bankruptcy and family legislation, with a discussion of the seminal case law. She then discusses the feminization of poverty, and concludes with suggestions for legislative changes.

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Notice to the Profession - Toronto - March 18

  • March 22, 2021

A link to the latest amendments to the Notice to the Profession - Toronto, which include updates to the Registrars in Bankruptcy section (Section F).

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Check Your Numbers Twice: Receiver and Its Counsel Denied Their Inadvertently-Omitted Fees and Disbursements

  • December 15, 2020
  • Jeremy Nemers, Aird & Berlis LLP

In what can only be described as a bitter pill to swallow for the professionals involved, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Duca Financial Services Credit Union Ltd. v. 2203284 Ontario Inc. has refused to approve the inadvertently-omitted fees and disbursements of its own receiver and receiver’s legal counsel, notwithstanding the highly unusual outcome that all other creditors had already been paid in full (thanks, ironically, in part to the efforts of the very receiver in question).

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Supreme Court of Canada Clarifies the Place of the Anti-Deprivation Rule in Canadian Insolvency Proceedings

  • November 09, 2020
  • Michael Nowina

In Chandos Construction Ltd. v. Deloitte Restructuring Inc., a decision released on October 2, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed the anti-deprivation rule in the common law of Canada. The dispute in this case revolved around a construction contract between Chandos Construction Ltd. and Capital Steel Inc. that included a clause which provided a fee of 10% of the contract price for the inconvenience and for monitoring the work in the event of Capital Steel’s bankruptcy.

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Construction Trusts Can Apply to Funds Received by CCAA Monitor: the Court of Appeal’s Decision in Urbancorp

  • July 16, 2020
  • Laura Brazil, Stephen Brown-Okruhlik and Matti Thurlin

In a recent decision in Urbancorp Cumberland 2 GP Inc. (Re) (“Urbancorp”), the Court of Appeal held that statutory trusts can arise under the Construction Act over sale proceeds received by a court officer in a court-supervised sale process under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (“CCAA”). The decision also limited the application of the Court of Appeal’s earlier decision in Re Veltri Metal Products Co.

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Jon Wigley

Celebrating the Late Jonathan Wigley, OBA Murray Klein Award for Excellence in Insolvency Law Recipient

  • June 18, 2020

The 2020 OBA Murray Klein Award for Excellence in Insolvency Law winner, Jon Wigley, a partner at Gardiner Roberts LLP, was a credit to the profession – a stellar lawyer, model of integrity and generous mentor. Sadly, Jon passed away before he could receive this honour. In this Q&A, two of Jon’s long-time friends and colleagues offer insight into why he was so highly regarded within the legal community and how his legacy will live on in those who benefitted from his sage advice and fine example.

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