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Are municipalities free to conduct themselves as they see fit in proceedings before the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT, formerly known as the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal and before that, the Ontario Municipal Board) without the threat of costs being awarded against them? In short, the answer is no. Municipalities are not exempt from cost awards. This article explains why.

Gowling WLG 's Expropriation Law Group summarizes several complex and compelling expropriation cases from across Canada in 2021. The team highlights a number of important issues and key takeaways for those parties involved in the expropriation process. The court decisions are not listed in rank order.

On Jan. 1, 2022 amendments to the Ontario Planning Act were proclaimed. As a result of these amendments, a good number of unfortunate traps have been done away with. This article summarizes those amendments.

Ronak Shah and George Boynton Payne discuss a growing trend among organizations to include privacy and data governance metrics and disclosure as part of their environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting framework, and highlight practical steps an organization can take to move beyond a traditional regulatory compliance approach to privacy and security.

Ontario and BC courts have recently taken conflicting approaches to the standard of review of jurisdictional decisions in international commercial arbitration under the UNCITRAL Model Law. In this article, Chloe Snider and Karin Kazakevich explore this case law in detail, including the theoretical differences between the correctness standard and a hearing de novo.

It is well known that workers’ compensation benefits are in lieu of the accident-related damages that can be civilly claimed by a worker or their estate. What happens, however, to the rights of action held by family members who are not part of a deceased worker’s estate or dependents? Do these family members retain the right to commence civil litigation in respect of a work-related fatality?

Learn how the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) sends and receives documents electronically and where you can find more information on the WSIAT's E-Share and E-File services.

In Chow v Facebook, the BC Supreme Court joins several other courts in declining to certify class actions based on a lack of "compensable" harm. The Court held that deployment of judicial resources where there was no evidence of compensable harm "would be the antitheses of judicial economy and would not provide meaningful access to justice."