Widdifield Award

The Widdifield Award is a cash award of $500 established by the OBA Foundation with contributions made by the authors of Widdifield on Executors and Trustees (sixth edition). 

The Award is presented annually at the year end dinner of the Trusts and Estates section of the Ontario Bar Association to the author of the best original article in each volume of the Estates Trusts & Pensions Journal.  The winning article is chosen each year by a rotating panel of three of the authors of Widdifield.

Past winners of the Widdifield Award

2024 – John Poyser & Ryan Gorlick & Dr. Arlin Pachet (posthumously)

2023 – Suzanna Popovic-Montag

2022 – Darren Lund & Brittany Sud

2021 – Johanna Caitness

2020 – Hennadiy Kutsenko

2018 - Jeffrey Talpis

2017 - Joel Nitikman​

2014 - Daniel Nelson

2013 - Catherine Brown

2010 - Lionel Smith

2009 - David Freedman

Award Presentation

June 10, 2025

Join us in celebrating the 2025 Award Winners Gwenyth Stadig and Maddi Thomas, on June 10, 2025 at the Gala Dinner of the OBA Trusts and Estates Law at One King West in Toronto