Business Law & Corporate Law
- Contract Disputes
- Contracts, Agreements & Governance
- Draft & Review Agreements
- Incorporating, Partnering & Joint Ventures
- Officer & Director Litigation
- Partnership Disputes
- Personal Real Estate Corporations (PRECs)
- Professional Corporations
- Shareholder Disputes
- Shareholder & Sweat Equity Agreements
- Trade-marks, Patents, Copyrights & Intellectual Property
Real Estate and New Environmental Laws
Passed on May 14, 2009, the Green Energy and Green Economy Act (“GEGEA”) and the enacted Green Energy Act (“Green Energy Act”) have as their main...
CONSUMER DEBT: What Collection Agencies Can & Cannot Do
From Mumbai to Manitoba, there are often horror stories in the media of people being (verbally) abused, beaten up, chased down, dragged out and subjected to...
The Duty to Disclose Property Defects
This question often comes up with clients: Are we required to disclose latent defects in the property we are selling?A latent defect is a defect that...
The New Simplified Procedure Rule for Civil Litigation in Ontario
Beginning where we left off earlier, the Simplified Procedure, under Rule 76 of the Rules was initially introduced in 1996 to reduce the cost of litigating claims...
The recent changes to the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure
The Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure1 (the “Rules”) underwent substantive changes on January 1, 2010, since the Rules were first adopted in 1985; brought about by Ontario...
INCOME TAX LAW: A Share Purchase vs. an Asset Purchase of an Incorporated Business
This article is attempting to illustrate the type of reasoning necessary in order to decide if an asset purchase or share purchase of an incorporated business...
Appointing a legal guardian for the mentally incapable.
To become a court appointed guardian of property; there are two procedures: the “standard procedure” and the “summary disposition procedure”. The second procedure needs two assessments...
PARTNERSHIPS: Limited Partnerships (LP) vs. Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP)
Limited partnerships are formed to carry on any business that a general partnership can also do. Its principal feature is that the liability of each limited...
PARTNERSHIPS: The essentials on a General Partnership.
As partnerships are normally comprised of more than one decision-maker, rules to provide a framework for the relationship between the partners carrying on business together, and...
FAMILY LAW: From case conference to motions to settlement conference to trial management conference to trial and finally to appeal!
After a case conference, a litigant usually seeks an order on motion, which requires two documents: a notice of motion and an affidavit. The affidavit is...
