2022

November is Make a Will Month, and the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) is once again spearheading a campaign to educate the public about the need for a will and how lawyers can help people draft one properly. Throughout the month, volunteers from the OBA will be leading free information sessions for the public in communities across Ontario.

The government has once again invoked the notwithstanding clause so that their legislation prohibiting a strike and unilaterally imposing contract terms will operate even if it violates the rights protected by sections 2, 7 and 15 of the Charter. These include the rights to free speech, association, and peaceful assembly, the right not to be deprived of life, liberty or security of the person except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice and equality rights.

Regional Senior Justice Warkentin issued a notice to the profession today.

This October, as we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Women’s History Month – with the theme “She Did, So Now I Can” – we asked the trailblazers who are making OBA history as members of our Board’s very first all-female officers team about who inspires them today, and how they are leading inclusively and working to advance gender equality in the legal profession.

An editorial in The Lawyer’s Daily from OBA President Karen Perron on rewards of practising in areas of Ontario outside of the GTA.

The Ontario Bar Association congratulates members who have been selected as Canada’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers for 2022. Those given this honour represent the broad expertise, leadership and dedication to the profession found in the organization.

The OBA offers its congratulations to the Hon. Michelle O’Bonsawin on her historic nomination to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, has appointed Justice Change to the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in Milton. Justice Chang practiced commercial litigation with a focus on complex corporate and commercial disputes, construction and employment matters. He has also volunteered with the Coach Advisor Network and Articling Mentorship program.

he Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, has appointed Justice Rahman to the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in Brampton. Justice Rahman was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice (Brampton) in 2016 and prior to that he worked several years as a federal prosecutor with the Department of Justice and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.

Justice Agarwal has been a distinguished class actions practitioner and partner at Bennett Jones LLP. He has also been an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto and a co-author of Class Actions Law and Practice. In addition, he is a past president of the South Asian Bar Association of Toronto and First Vice President of the Ontario Bar Association.