Caroline Abela
Partner
Experience
Speaking Engagements
Speaker, "Conducting Effective Virtual Examinations", Seminar Partners, Online, November 25, 2021
Speaker, “Effective Witness Preparation”, A Litigator’s Guide to Case Preparation, The Advocates' Society, Webinar, December 9, 2020
Speaker, "Objection to Issuing a Certificate of Appointment", Osgoode Professional Development’s Estate Litigation Program, Toronto, May 21, 2019
Speaker, "When Estate Law Meets Business Litigation", Scarborough Estate and Financial Planning Council, Scarborough, ON, December 4, 2018
Discussion Leader, "Who Pays The Piper Calls The Tune: The Effect of Costs Consequences on Estate Litigation Strategy", Cambridge Estates & Trusts Practitioners' Forum, Cambridge, ON, November 6, 2018
Panel Member, "Dealing with Challenges in Will and Trust Administration", STEP Toronto Seminar, October 10, 2018
Panel Member, "Intergeneration Transfers: Lessons to be Learned from Family Owned Enterprises in Transition – Avoiding the Family Breakdown: Minority Shareholder's Rights and Oppression Claims in Context of Intergenerational Transfers", American Bar Association 2018 Spring Conference, New York
Speaker, "Estate Tax Planning Gone Awry", B'nai Brith Canada, Toronto, ON, May 30, 2018
Instructor, "Cross-Examination", The Advocates' Society, Toronto, ON, January 30. 2018
Panel Member, "Experts in Contested Passings of Accounts – Ethics regarding Communication with Experts", Estate Accounting Program, Law Society of Upper Canada, January 15, 2018
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Additional Publications:
- Co-author (with Natalia Sidlar), “Interim Possession of Personal Property (Rule 44 of the Rules of Civil Procedure)”, Civil Procedure & Practice in Ontario, September 7, 2021
- Author, “Success and Failure: The Advocate’s Road Map to Domestic Contracts in SLRA Applications”, B’Nai Brith Canada, May 30 2018
- Co-author (with Mike McDonald), “Avoiding the Family Breakdown: Minority Shareholder’s Rights and Oppression Claims in the Context of Intergenerational Transfer”, American Bar Association 2018 Spring Conference, New York
- Co-Author (with Shalome Barrow), “Expertly Passing the Ethics Test: Experts, Ethics and Passing of Accounts”, Law Society of Upper Canada, Estate Account 2018, January 15, 2018
- Co-Author (with Lia Boritz), “Top Ten Reasons Wills are Litigated”, Editorial for the OBA’s Make a Will Month, Lawyers’ Weekly, November 2017
- Co-Author (with Lia Boritz), “Subtle, Secret and Circumstantial Evidence: The Intricacies of Winning an Undue Influence Case”, The Advocates’ Quarterly, Volume 48, Issue 1, February 2018 (also presented at the 20th Annual Estates and Trusts Summit, LSUC, October 16, 2017)
- Co-Author (with Nabila Khan), “The Impact of Alternative Fee Structures on Settlement”, The Advocates’ Quarterly, Volume 47, Number 1, June 2017
- Co-Author (with Robert Bell), “A Lawyer’s Duty to the Court”, The Advocates’ Society, January 2009 (Cited in: The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Diocese of Sault St. Marie v Axa Insurance (Canada), 2015 ONSC 4755, and Healthy Lifestyle Medical Group Inc. v. Chand Morningside Plaza Inc., 2019 ONCA 248)