Articles 2023

As a young lawyer trying to learn the ins and outs of practice, it can be difficult to stay on top of recent jurisprudential developments. This article provides four tips on how you can keep up with current case law and maintain the requisite level of competency to represent your clients.

As the highly-contagious Omicron variant sweeps across the province and COVID-19 immunization campaigns for children ramp up, two recent Ontario decisions—A.C. v. L.L., 2021 ONSC 6530 and Saint-Phard v. Saint-Phard, 2021 ONSC 6910—offer a glimpse of the legal trends emerging at this latest intersection of family law and health law.

Following are this week’s summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of January 17, 2022.

Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of January 10, 2022.

The author shares his insights and lessons learned after having done his first appeal before the Court of Appeal as a sole practitioner.

In this article, the author reflects on experiences since March 2020 working remotely and challenges perspectives on the benefits of in-person as opposed to remote office environments.

Are you looking for information about community impact investing? Two resources are now available for charities and not-for-profits in Ontario from the Cooperation Council of Ontario, Ontario Trillium Foundation and Canadian CED Network. There is a report to help you understand the current state of community investment organizations in Ontario and a guide that outlines the phases of development for community investment cooperatives.

Charities that qualify as designated municipalities can be eligible for a rebate from the GST/HST paid on property and services, but does a supply of market rate units for moderate income households qualify? A recent CRA interpretation letter explains how section 259 of the Excise Tax Act and CRA’s info sheet Municipal Designation of Organizations Providing Rent Geared to Income Housing might apply in this situation, and why the charity’s market rate units would not qualify for the rebate.