Manitoba Government Marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities December 3, 2024 – The Manitoba government is joining people around the world to celebration International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine, minister responsible for accessibility, announced today.
A lifetime licence suspension is imposed on a person who is convicted of two such offences committed within a 10-year period.
Additionally, a person who is convicted of such an offence is prohibited from driving with any alcohol in their blood for a 7-year period. A second conviction for such an offence results in a lifetime prohibition if the second offence is committed within 10 years after the first one. Unlike the licence suspension period, the alcohol prohibition period cannot be varied by the Licence Suspension Appeal Board.
A person who drives with alcohol in their blood while prohibited from doing so is subject to having their licence suspended and their vehicle impounded. The person might also be required to pay an administrative penalty or to participate in an impaired driving assessment or the ignition-interlock program.
An amendment is also made to The Drivers and Vehicles Act.
Executors and Trustees – Carmen S. Thériault Release #9 – October 2024
What’s New?
Amendments and updates to the commentary in Chapter 1 (Funeral); Chapter 2 (Assets); Chapter 5 (Bequests and Beneficiaries); Chapter 10 (Breach of Trust and Its Consequences); Chapter 11 (Executor’s Compensation); Chapter 12 (Application to the Court for Advice to the Court); Chapter 15 (Resignation, Removal and Appointment of Trustees); Chapter 17 (Dependants’ Relief Claims and Spousal Property on Death; and Words and Phrases.
Remedies in Tort– Lewis N. Klar et al. Release #10 – October 2024
What’s New?
Rewritten Chapter 18: Professional Negligence in its entirety. The previous version of chapter 18 may be discarded and replaced with the new version of the chapter. This chapter will be revised in 2 parts with the second update coming later this year.
Injunctions and Specific Performance – Robert J. Sharpe Release #1 – November 2024
What’s New?
The provision in Ontario’s anti-SLAPP regime, Courts of Justice Act, s. 137.1(5) precludih a party from bringing any steps after an anti-SLAPP motion has been made, does not oust the court’s inherent jurisdiction to issue an interlocutory injunction: 40 Days for Life v. Dietrich, 2023 ONSC 5879 (Ont. Div. Ct.).
Lawyers & Ethics: Professional Responsibility and Discipline–Gavin MacKenzie Release #4 – November 2024
What’s New?
Update to Issue in Focus, Words and Phrases and Selected Legal Literature.
The Law of Costs– Mark M. Orkin and Robert G. Shipper Release #6 – October 2024
What’s New?
Updates to Chapter 3. Solicitor-and-Client Costs; Chapter 4. Costs of Motions; Chapter 5. Security for Costs; Chapter 8. Appeals; and Chapter 11. Cost in the Federal Court.
Bill 2The Provincial Court Amendment Act – The Provincial Court Act is amended to expand the subjects of continuing education for provincial court judges. Subjects are to include intimate partner violence, coercive control in intimate partner and family relationships and the experiences of Indigenous persons and 2SLGBTQIA+ persons.
To be eligible for appointment as a judicial justice of the peace, a candidate must agree to participate in continuing education on a number of specified subjects.
Funding for continuing education seminars established by the Chief Judge does not lapse.
The City of Winnipeg Charter is amended to increase the sufficient number of objections from at least 25 to at least 300.
The Planning Act is amended to increase the sufficient number of objections from at least 25 to at least
300, for a municipality or planning district with a population of at least 6,000; or
the greater of 100 or 5% of the population, for a municipality or planning district with a population of fewer than 6,000.
In addition, each Act currently provides that the Municipal Board must hold a hearing when objections to a zoning by-law affecting a particular parcel of land are received from at least 50% of the land owners within 100 metres from the parcel. The provisions are repealed.
Bill 4The Planning Amendment Act – The Planning Act is amended to enable a municipality to withdraw from the Capital Planning Region.
The date for completing the initial regional plan for the Capital Planning Region is extended.
The obligations concerning drinking water and wastewater management plans for municipalities within the capital region are continued and are no longer dependent on membership in the Capital Planning Region.
Related amendments are made with respect to other planning regions that may be established in the future.
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