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One of the most frequent questions a family lawyer is asked is “at what age can my child choose to live with me?”What I hope to briefly explore is what it means to be a “mature minor” in health law, and as a family lawyer, to compare how health law and ...
The flight of the allegedly abused spouse may prove to be the foil to the principles of international comity, as more specifically encompassed in the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Abduction ("the Convention"). Once, the governing rule was ...
The OCJ will adjourn all family and Child, Youth, and Family Services Act trials (including in-person, hybrid, and remote trials) scheduled between April 26 to May 7, 2021. Counsel and parties should not attend Court for these types of trials during this period. The ...
NS is a Muslim woman who wears a niqab, a veil that covers the lower half of her face, so that only her eyes are visible. In 2007, she accused her uncle and her cousin[1] of sexually assaulting her between 1982 and 1987, when she was a child. At the preliminary hearing, the ...
There have been some interesting developments from the courts and the Human Rights Tribunal in the past several months. It was a difficult choice, but the following five decisions are perhaps the most noteworthy, particularly for the employment and labour law bar.No Prim...
When Ontario was hit hard by the global pandemic, lawyers worried about how they would be able to continue serving their clients, move critical matters forward and take care of their many and varied responsibilities – their own wellbeing included — amidst the uphea...
Committed to the mission to end human trafficking, lawyer and volunteer Audrey Ramsay sheds light on the devastating extent of this crisis, what’s being done to combat it, and why there is cause for optimism. Read our interview with Audrey below.How did you become involv...
Earlier this year my client killed his wife. Then the police killed him. I learned those awful facts during my early morning routine, reading the Globe and Mail with a coffee. I hadn’t even paid attention to the story the first day it appeared, with information abou...
The Aboriginal Law Section of the OBA hosted its Institute 2018 program, “Advancing Reconciliation: Review of recent key decisions and what deconstructing the current colonial legal structure could mean,” on February 8, 2018. By OBA standards, it was an inter...
Sherr J.’s decision in Children’s Aid Society of Toronto v. S.B., 2014 ONCJ 518 explores the case law surrounding section 59 (2.1) of the Child and Family Services Act and discusses the potential “chilling effect” of allowing openness orders and the ove...
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