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Toronto lawyer Kathryn Marshall opens plaintiff-side human rights …
WEB4 hours ago — Human rights and employment lawyer Kathryn Marshall launched a litigation boutique on Tuesday that she says will be distinct from many other employment firms in one critical regard: it will only represent plaintiffs. “There’s a lot of employment law firms and litigation firms that try to straddle both plaintiff and defence,” Marshall told ...
Ontario Superior Court orders new hearing after pedestrian was …
WEB1 day ago — The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ordered a new hearing in a personal injury case after the Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT) dismissed the appellant’s case despite her lack of legal representation. In Fernandez v. Commonwell Mutual Insurance, 2024 ONSC 5180, the appellant was injured in a car ...
Sellers breached insurance policy by failing to timely report lawsuit ...
WEB1 day ago — In a recent decision, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that the sellers of a residential property breached their insurance policy by delaying notice of a lawsuit over alleged misrepresentation of the property's condition. The dispute in Kerk-Courtney v. Security National Insurance Company (TD ...
Ontario Superior Court upholds eviction order against tenant after ...
WEBSep 23, 2024 — The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has upheld an eviction order against a tenant following the landlords’ decision to sell the property. Tenant Dana Turner sought to overturn a Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) ruling that terminated her tenancy. The case involved an application by landlords ...
FullStop takes another LSO bencher seat following judicial …
WEB4 days ago — BY Jessica Mach 27 Sep 2024. Lisa Bildy, a member of the FullStop group that bills itself as the antidote to the Law Society of Ontario’s “woke” slant, will fill a vacant seat on the law society’s governing body. The seat had previously been held by Jasminka Kalajdzic, appointed as a judge in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in ...
Family lawyers react to the new family lawyer legal service provider ...
WEBDec 16, 2022 — Alexander organized an online petition to call on the courts to shift back to online hearings, which has more than 1,400 lawyers signed on, and he and others recently met with Attorney General Doug Downey to discuss the issue.. Rather than enabling FLSPs to practice family law, resources should be directed toward improving technology at courthouses, and improving training for judges, court ...
FOLA calls for Ontario to boost legal aid funding and court …
WEBBY Aidan Macnab 15 Feb 2023. Ahead of the province’s 2023 budget, the Federation of Ontario Law Associations (FOLA) is calling on the Ontario government to boost legal-aid spending and continue court modernization. FOLA is asking the provincial government to increase annual spending on Legal Aid Ontario to $480 million, up from $350 million ...
Over 67,000 backlog cases plague Ontario’s key tribunals – …
WEBDec 21, 2022 — Share. Tribunal Watch Ontario is urging the government to confront a collective backlog of over 67,000 cases at four key tribunals as per Tribunals Ontario’s count in its 2021-22 annual report published in September. The lack of accessible justice is most prominent at the Landlord and Tenant Board with …
Ontario Government's justice reform legislation aimed at …
WEBFeb 22, 2021 — Ontario has introduced the Accelerating Access to Justice Act, 2021, which the province said will build upon the modernization efforts adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.. The proposed legislation seeks to eliminate barriers in Ontario’s courts and tribunals, as well as in the estates law, family law and child protection sectors, and to promote access to justice especially for ...