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.
2026 Award Recipient
Past Recipients
2025 - Gwenyth Stadig & Maddi Thomas
2024 – John Poyser & Ryan Gorlick & Dr. Arlin Pachet (posthumously)
2023 – Suzanna Popovic-Montag
2022 – Darren Lund & Brittany Sud
2021 – Johanna Caitness
2020 – Hennadiy Kutsenko
2019 - K. Thomas Grozinger
2018 - Jeffrey Talpis
2017 - Joel Nitikman
2016 - Joel Nitikman
2015 - Corina Weigl&
2014 - Daniel Nelson
2013 - Catherine Brown
2012 - Christine Perry
2010 - Lionel Smith
2009 - David Freedman
2008 - Archie Rabinowitz
2007 - Peter Lawson
2006 - Catherine Brown
2005 - K. Thomas Grozinger