Feb 10, 2010Toronto’s “Harmonized” Comprehensive Zoning By-law: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Toronto property owners with development objectives in mind will want to follow carefully the City of Toronto’s harmonization of pre-amalgamation zoning by-laws.
Feb 1, 2010Quiz: Social Networking Liabilities, Risks, and Rights of Employees and Employers What happens when the virtual world impacts the real one, and how is labour and employment law dealing with those impacts?
Spoliation and Sanctions for the Failure to Preserve Relevant Documents in Canada One of the greatest concerns at the preservation and collection stages of the discovery process is the destruction or loss of relevant documents, and the sanctions that…
Jan 4, 2010Letters of Intent – The Good and the Bad A common practice in business or major business transactionsis using a letter of intent to set out the main points of a proposed business deal.
Dec 10, 2009Municipal Conflict of Interest Law: A Law in Conflict Based on Interest Members of municipal councils and local boards are only human.
Dec 1, 2009Some Further Thoughts on Costs in Estate Litigation In the October 2009 edition of Deadbeat, Elizabeth Seo provided a helpful survey of recent costs decisions in estates litigation.
Nov 19, 2009Toronto’s “Harmonized” Comprehensive Zoning By-Law: Update WeirFoulds can advise you on how the City’s new comprehensive zoning by-law will affect your property.
Nov 17, 2009Services: HST Transitional Rules A summary of the Ontario HST transitional rules affecting supplies of services.
Residential Housing – Sales and Construction: HST Transitional Rules A summary of the Ontario HST transitional rules affecting residential real property sales.
Residential Rental Properties – Leases, Sales and Construction: HST Transitional Rules A summary of the Ontario HST transitional rules affecting residential real property rentals and construction.
Sale or Lease of Goods: HST Transitional Rules A summary of the Ontario HST transitional rules affecting supplies of goods.
Nov 10, 2009Commercial Leases: HST Transitional Rules A summary of the Ontario HST transitional rules affecting commercial leases.
Non-residential Construction: HST Transitional Rules A summary of the Ontario HST transitional rules affecting non-residential construction.
Non-residential Real Property Sales: HST Transitional Rules A summary of the Ontario HST transitional rules affecting non-residential real property sales.
Nov 1, 2009Looking to the Future — Mediation of Estate Disputes Anyone who practises in the Estates arena knows how highly charged the issues can get.
Oct 21, 2009Grace Under Pressure Zen and the Art of the Litigation Practitioner:Some Strategies for Dealing with the Unexpected and the Uncivil
Oct 13, 2009A New Entitlement of Independent Adult Children to a Share of their Parents’ Estate? In Ontario freedom of testamentary disposition is restricted by the Succession Law Reform Act.
Frye Ruling a Recipe for Litigation Anyone advising shareholders of private corporations needs to pay heed to the Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Frye v. Frye Estate.
Oct 6, 2009Thinking About “Going Green”? Proceed with Caution “Going Green” is the latest trend in consumer marketing the corporate advertiser’s must-have accessory for the 21st century.
Oct 1, 2009Quiz: Securities Law On Sept. 28, 2009, securities regulatory authorities across Canada welcomed the new National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements and Exemptions.
Guardianship: What You Need to Know As medical science has improved, so has the prognosis for many of those who are catastrophically injured.
Sep 14, 2009Can You Create An Economic Disincentive to Litigation from Beyond the Grave On June 28, 2016, before breaking for the summer, the City of Toronto’s powerful Executive Committee met and reviewed an earlier study by KPMG which looked at various new revenue-generating policy proposals with an eye towards addressing the City’s estimated $582 million operating shortfall for 2017.
Sep 1, 2009Hot Spots – Five Tests Worth Running in that First Scan of a New Contract Customer review of a technology acquisition contract by a customer can be a daunting task.
Aug 27, 2009Getting Municipalities to Work, or Getting Work to Municipalities: Protection and Conversion of Employment Lands Over the course of the last decade a variety of factors have contributed to the migration of employment uses.
Aug 1, 2009Quiz: International Trade In this issue we look at international trade, including the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
Jul 30, 2009Toronto’s “Harmonized” Comprehensive Zoning By-law: Closer to Approval Since 2004, the City of Toronto has been working on harmonizing the 43 different zoning by-laws inherited from its pre-amalgamation municipalities into one single comprehensive zoning by-law.
Jul 3, 2009Anti-Money Laundering Regime Now Includes Real Estate Developers Those involved in real estate transactions have already heard of the dangers of title fraud and some have experienced it first hand.
Jul 2, 2009Lienholders Defeat Owner’s Complex Attempt to Preserve Priority Neither a borrower nor a lender be . . . Ontario’s Court of Appeal recently had the chance to consider that question in a construction lien case.
Jun 23, 2009Avoiding Black Holes and Hollow Victories: Cross-Border Litigation Comes of Age The business of litigation, like commerce itself, has become increasingly international.
Managing Executive Compensation Canadian securities regulators have implemented major changes to executive compensation disclosure requirements that apply to any fiscal year ending on or after December 31, 2008.
Jun 1, 2009Quiz: Corporate Insolvencies The current economic environment has created a number of business casualties.
May 20, 2009OMB Variability Most municipalities subject to the provincial growth plan are still going through exercises required to ensure that their official plans conform with provincial policy.
May 11, 2009The Duty of an Attorney to Account In assessing whether to pursue estate litigation, parties must always consider who will pay the resulting legal costs.
Apr 30, 2009Doing Business in Ontario: An Overview of Environmental Protection Law This guide provides a brief overview of the main elements of environmental protection law in Ontario.
Apr 29, 2009Renewable Energy Projects: Planning Powers Reduced The Government of Ontario introduced and gave first reading to the Green Energy Act, 2009 on February 23.