Articles 2025

Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of July 3, 2023.

The OBA Elder Law Section held its 2023 Elder Law Day on March 28, 2023. Concerns on issues of how the elderly are impacted by capacity issues, when and in what instances should litigation guardians be used, and how lawyers should assist clients with their care needs were the fulcrum of the three panels that had key experts in the industry. The Honourable Justice Gillese who was the keynote speaker.

Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of June 26, 2023.

On June 26, 2023, Howard Black was presented with the OBA Award of Excellence in Trusts and Estates for 2023. For anyone who may have missed this wonderful event, or for those who want to experience it again, Howard has kindly agreed to share a copy of his speech. Many congratulations to the very deserving Howard Black.

Your Public Affairs Liaisons, Krystyne Rusek and Angelique Moss, have been hard at work bringing issues of legislative change and public affairs affecting the estates bar to the attention of our Executive and to our members. Further to the previous update provided in March, Krystyne and Angelique provide an additional update summarizing recent matters.

This article outlines an opportunity for OBA members to contribute to strengthening the capacity of the workplace to fully include workers with disabilities.

This article explores Decision No. 831/22 which addressed the issue of trying to read the WSIB's operational policies together with the AMA Guides to rate a worker's permanent impairment when a worker has overlapping physical brain injuries and psychological injuries.

Although we are only halfway through 2023, there have been plenty of interesting trusts and estates decisions that have been released so far this year. In this article, Garrett Horrocks reviews several of the top cases from the first half of 2023.

As part of a series of Q&As, in this article Sanaya Mistry interviews Lucy Main and Lori Isaj of WeirFoulds LLP about their experiences in their estate planning practices.