Articles 2020

An insightful reminder of the need for family law lawyers to consider their clients' domestic situations in terms of how and when to move a file forward. Steve Benmor shares his experience, including how he has faced these challenges in his own practice, including details gleaned form his training in mediation and domestic violence screening.

Since contesting the validity of a marriage on the ground of incapacity is an imperfect approach, there is a need to explore other potentially available rights and remedies to react to what is actually happening in today’s society. This article considers other grounds upon which a court has the jurisdiction to set aside a predatory marriage as a nullity and also to remedy the wrongs caused by a predator spouse.

Elder abuse can take many forms, including financial, physical, psychological (mental or emotional) and sexual abuse to name a few. Neglect can also be a form of abuse.

Coming out of law school, it’s not uncommon to have clients who are a generation or two older than oneself. Alexandra Manthorpe offers tips for working with older clients that she has learned in her few years of being a lawyer.

Following are the summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.

Smart city initiatives provide a welcome opportunity for public engagement about data governance and privacy in Ontario and beyond.

Topics covered this week included sale of goods, wrongful dismissal, family law (access by the birth mother to an adopted child) and municipal law (interpretation of a zoning bylaw relating to lot coverage).

Our brains are constantly processing the information that bombards us. We need to make sense of the world—and fast—so we use stereotypes to fill any gaps. These stereotypes lead to biases that can affect our judgement and the way we make decisions. Is there something we can do to reduce these biases and prevent them from influencing our choices?

I gave birth to my fourth child on March 9 2019 and when he was barely a month old I did something I wouldn’t have done with any of the babies before: I travelled downtown to attend the Women’s Law Forum’s CLE entitled “Rethinking having it All, a Solo and Small Firm Perspective on Parenting While Lawyering”.