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
What Residential Landlords are Not Normally Aware Of
In 2002, the Conservative government provincial legislature offered some concessions to landlords by enacting a regulation allowing landlords to avoid liability for carrying out maintenance work as long...
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: Your responsibility and your neighbor’s
How clean is greenThe proverbial question relating to environmental contamination is the extent of the clean-up that needs to be undertaken. Considerable time and resources have been...
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...
