Managing New Environmental Quagmires – Perspectives from the Litigation, Regulatory and Transactional Contexts

  • February 04, 2015

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In today's ever-changing environmental law landscape, it is important to keep up to date with current tools and strategies for managing key risks and avoiding quagmires in litigation, regulatory matters and commercial transactions. Our faculty of leading practitioners will guide you through the need-to-know issues, and the new compliance drivers underlying these issues, as well as other hot topics.

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Michael Fortier, Torys LLP
Tamara Farber, Miller Thomson LLP

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contaminated Site Lawsuits after Inco
Dr. Dianne Saxe, Saxe Law Office

Rougher Waters to Come for Environmental Class Actions: Will Class Action Plaintiffs Rage Against the Dying of the Light?
Jennifer Fairfax, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Experts in Environmental Litigation
Marc McAree, Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP
with Robert Woon and Anand Srivastaval

Damages in Environmental Claims: Regulatory, Technical and Evidentiary Considerations
Barry Weintraub, Rueter Scargall Bennett LLP

Managing New Environmental Quagmires Regulatory Mudslides - Excess Soil
Janet Bobechko, Blaney McMurtry LLP

Management of Excess Soil - A Guide for Best Management Practices
Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change

"Still work to be done" on ‘final version' of MOE's Best Management Practices for the management of excess soil
Janet Bobechko, Canadian Environmental Regulation & Compliance News

Excess Soil Management Policy Needs Review
Ontario Environment Industry Association

Some (Unintended?) Implications of the New Rules of Professional Conduct for Environmental Lawyers
Ian Richler, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

When Experts Disagree - Resolving Differences Between Your Expert and the Ministry's Expert
Jack Coop, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Effectively Handling Commercial Sinkholes
Rosalind H. Cooper, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP

Environmental Indemnities - Avoiding the Sinkholes
Alexandria Pike, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP