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.

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