Articles 2020

A brief overview of the history of the personal interview for economic applicants for permanent residence and its impact on decision making and procedural fairness.

Highlights from the January 15, 2019 Brown Bag Lunch, including a discussion on filing Estate Information Returns, taxation of estate trustee compensation and the proposed changes to the Ontario Pension Benefits Act.

Learn more about Sajjad’s practice, his experiences, and his motivations for serving on the OBA Citizenship and Immigration Law Section Executive.

Following are summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario this past week. The Court released a number of decisions this week, including an important pronouncement on Construction Act trusts, and the ability of the provincial legislature to establish trust certainties, in The Guarantee Company of Canada v Royal Bank of Canada, 2019 ONCA 9.

In Houle v St. Jude Medical Inc., the Ontario Divisional Court upheld a decision conditionally approving a litigation funding agreement in a products liability class action.

Case review of Biffis v. Sainsbury, a decision of the Superior Court respecting application of the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act.

A short primer on the Local Planning Appeal Support Centre.

In the Star Wars movies, there are points where the Jedi seem to have wiped out the Sith (or vice versa) only to find out that the other has come back to life. Stakeholders, lawyers and insolvency professionals who had seen, or hoped for, the end of the statutory construction lien trust after bankruptcy might be forgiven for feeling like that after January's Court of Appeal for Ontario decision in The Guarantee Company of North America v. Royal Bank of Canada.

The author discusses two recent Tax Court of Canada cases considering the application of the general anti-avoidance rule, from which the taxpayers emerged victorious for various reasons.