Articles 2023

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Aujourdʼhui

Supreme Court of Canada Holds Designated Projects Scheme Under the Impact Assessment Act is Unconstitutional

  • 27 octobre 2023
  • Joanna Rosengarten, Matthew Lakatos-Hayward, Cristin Hunt

On October 13, 2023, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) released its advisory decision regarding the constitutionality of the federal government’s environmental assessment (EA) regime in Reference re Impact Assessment Act. A majority of the SCC found that much of the federal government’s Impact Assessment Act (the “Act”) and the Physical Activities Regulations ( the “Regulations”) under the Act are unconstitutional.

Droit de l’environnement, Student Forum

ONTARIO ESTATES BENCH-BAR LIAISON COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES - JUNE 12, 2023

  • 24 octobre 2023
  • Ontario Estates Bench-Bar Liaison Committee

The Ontario Estates Bench-Bar Liaison Committee met in June 2023 to discuss various matters, including filing of Motions for Directions, electronic filing of a Notice of Objection, decisions that applied s. 21.1 of the SLRA to validate Wills that were not properly executed and scheduling in the Toronto Estates Office.

Student Forum, Droit des fiducies et des successions

Beneficiary Designations: Pillar One of Potentially Perilous Estate Planning Strategies

  • 16 octobre 2023
  • Blair L. Botsford, O’Sullivan Estate Lawyers

Beneficiary designations can be a useful estate planning tool with the added benefit of helping to reduce exposure to Ontario’s estate administration tax; however, utilizing them is not without its pitfalls. In this article, Blair Botsford reviews key issues relating to beneficiary designations, including certain drafting challenges.

Student Forum, Droit des fiducies et des successions

To 65 or Back to the (Drawing) Board? To Be Determined

  • 16 octobre 2023
  • John Bartolomeo, lawyer/co-director, Workers' Health and Safety Legal Clinic

This article reviews the reconsideration outcome of WSIAT's Decision No. 243/21R which addressed a Tribunal order to provide loss of earnings benefits to the worker to age 65.

Student Forum, Accidents de travail

Employer Cost Relief in the Context of a Worker's Substance Abuse

  • 16 octobre 2023
  • Cassandra Ma, legal counsel, Bell Canada

This article contains a review of WSIAT Decision No. 339/23 in which an employer sought cost relief (SIEF) for a worker's compensable fatal motor vehicle accident caused by the worker's impaired driving.

Student Forum, Accidents de travail

Benefit Annual Indexing: Outcome of judicial review in Grisales v. WSIB

  • 16 octobre 2023
  • Nikki Banwait, Lawyer, Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP

This article provides a summary of the Divisional Court's decision in Grisales v. WSIB, in which the worker sought court review of the WSIB's method of calculating the consumer price index (CPI) for the purposes of the annual indexation of benefits.

Student Forum, Accidents de travail

WSIAT Stakeholder Event, September 2023: Highlights and Summary

  • 16 octobre 2023
  • Teresa A. Gianfelice, Office of the Worker Advisor

This article provides a summary of key information provided at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal's stakeholder information event held on September 14, 2023.

Student Forum, Accidents de travail