Site Map for July 2020

Date
Title
31 Jul 2020
Amid Black Lives Matter movement, less talk, more walk on diversity says Toronto lawyer Ryan Watkins
31 Jul 2020
New law will encourage landlords and tenants to negotiate repayment agreements amid COVID-19
31 Jul 2020
Changes to landlord/tenant law address jurisdictional confusion and no-fault evictions
31 Jul 2020
Global IP firm Marks & Clerk continues Canadian expansion with high-profile hires
29 Jul 2020
New legislation allows for eviction orders without Landlord and Tenant Board hearing
29 Jul 2020
OSC invites applications to its Seniors Expert Advisory Committee
29 Jul 2020
Proposed class action for security guards’ unpaid wages settles for $2.9 million
29 Jul 2020
Legal Aid Ontario to launch modernized framework under new Legal Aid Services Act
28 Jul 2020
Canadian business immigration to U.S. stymied by COVID-19 but not President Trump: lawyer
28 Jul 2020
R. v. Sharma: law prohibiting conditional sentence for Indigenous woman a Charter breach
27 Jul 2020
Organizations to help police report statistics on Indigenous groups in official crime statistics
27 Jul 2020
IP lawyer and law professor on Ontario’s Special Implementation Team on Intellectual Property
27 Jul 2020
How to maintain business development and networking during a pandemic
23 Jul 2020
Reopening Ontario Act, which extends COVID-19 emergency orders, met with Chorus of opposition
22 Jul 2020
Facing surge in demand, online estate planning company calls on province to amend Succession Law
22 Jul 2020
Ontario and Flying Post First Nation reach settlement of over $14 million in century-old land claim
22 Jul 2020
Court of Appeal rejects lower court’s finding that accused in sexual assault lacked credibility
22 Jul 2020
Amended law on class actions adds predominance and superiority to certification requirements
20 Jul 2020
Bennett Jones enters ‘ideal’ videoconferencing design for legal hearings into legal tech conference
20 Jul 2020
New bursary for Black JD students launched by Queen’s students
20 Jul 2020
Democracy Watch asks Superior Court to cancel new tribunal appointment system
20 Jul 2020
Legal Aid Ontario shares race-based data for 2019-2020
20 Jul 2020
Lawyer’s new book on divorce: Family law in a pandemic
20 Jul 2020
New judicial appointments announced: Ontario Court of Justice
15 Jul 2020
Law Foundation of Ontario announces new CEO
15 Jul 2020
Osgoode professor tasked by U.N. to lead development of research roadmap for post-pandemic recovery
15 Jul 2020
Ryerson law dean Donna Young leads panel discussion on race, state power and the social contract
14 Jul 2020
Health minister committed systemic discrimination in treatment of midwives’ pay: Ontario court
14 Jul 2020
Enhanced access to justice needs more than lawyers and paralegals: report
13 Jul 2020
Criminal Lawyers’ Association filling mentor-gap with new online educational series
13 Jul 2020
OBA's taxation law section names first female chairperson, Angela Salvatore
13 Jul 2020
COVID-19 Economic Recovery Act to amend Justices of the Peace Act and Provincial Offences Act
13 Jul 2020
OHRC tells Sudbury landlords they cannot discriminate based on receipt of public assistance
08 Jul 2020
Windsor’s new associate dean to advance Indigenous law in legal education
08 Jul 2020
Ontario and Superior Courts of Justice embark on first phase of reopening
08 Jul 2020
Patricia Kosseim shares her priorities as the new information and privacy commissioner
08 Jul 2020
Canadian Constitution Foundation suggests amendments to mandatory mask order in Ontario
06 Jul 2020
Court hearing summary motion in Charter challenge of Ontario’s gas-pump carbon-tax stickers
06 Jul 2020
Superior Court finds that psychiatric treatments amounted to assault and battery
06 Jul 2020
Former judge Robert Sutherland dies due to post COVID-19 complications
06 Jul 2020
Legal Aid Ontario highlights services for clients facing anti‑Black racism
02 Jul 2020
Queen’s Law to open consultation process to change name of Macdonald Hall
02 Jul 2020
Illegal termination provision may affect employment contract’s other enforceable provisions: ONCA
02 Jul 2020
Bencher suggests LSO fee refunds for hardest-hit lawyers and paralegals
01 Jul 2020
Video could depict ‘new normal’ once courthouses open next week
01 Jul 2020
Ranjan Agarwal will become first South Asian lawyer to lead the OBA