Bill Innes quoted in the Financial Post regarding Canada Revenue Agency's use of gross negligence penalties : "Many of the cases involve people who never got refunds but were penalized just for claiming them . . . The upshot is that many of the penalties are windfalls...
Barry Weintraub made a roundtable presentation on Limitation Periods on April 22, 2016 at the Canadian Law Conference of the International Council of Shopping Centres. Click on this link to read materials: ICSC Limitation Periods ....
Barry Weintraub was co-chair of Disputes Involving Land: Advanced Techniques for Real Estate Lawyers and Litigators, a joint programme of the Real Property and Civil Litigation Sections of the Ontario Bar Association held on April 13, 2016....
On February 2, 2016, Barry Weintraub was co-Chair of an OBA Institute Civil Litigation Section programme entitled Litigation Minefields: Tax, Estates, Criminal, and Other Unanticipated Issues....
Barry Weintraub explained the law on limitation periods applying to the collection of rents in a Law Times article “Commercial leases present deadline challenges”. When limitation periods were standardized at two years in 2002, the law on matters relating to real property was left untouched,...
Malik Martin was invited by The Advocates’ Society to co-chair their biennial conference for young lawyers, alongside fellow co-chairs Meaghan Boisvert, Erin Durant & Shaun Hohman. The Fall Forum, which will be held in Blue Mountain, Collingwood on October 21 & 22, 2016, is...
Barry Weintraub and Garret Schromm obtained a summary judgment award of 26 months’ pay in lieu of notice plus costs in a constructive dismissal claim by Rueters client Lisa Maasland against the City of Toronto. Justice Graeme Mew of Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled...
On October 26, 2015, David Barbaree presented at the Commons Institute Conference on Civil Litigation: Practice Primers and Contemporary Developments 2015. David presented on the topic "Avoiding Conflicts of Interest."...
Barry Weintraub obtained summary judgment dismissing an environmental claim because the limitation period for the action had expired. The plaintiff, an affiliate of Crombie REIT, has appealed the decision. See the decision here: Crombie v. McColl-Frontenac 2015 ONSC 6560 (CanLII)...
On October 20, 2015, Sara J. Erskine spoke at the Law Society of Upper Canada's program on Civil Litigation Practice Basics 2015. Click here to view the Program Agenda....
