Looseleaf Updates – November

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.

Looseleaf Updates – October

Conflicts of Interest – Eugene A.G. Cipparone and Ted Tjaden
Release #4 – September 2024

What’s New?

A fully revised and updated chapter 2 Analyzing Conflicts of Interest and updates to chapter 12 Judges.

Remedies in Tort – Lewis N. Klar et al.
Release #9 – September 2024

What’s New?

Updates to Chapter 1 (Abuse of Process), Chapter 5 (Deceit), Chapter 16 (Negligence (General)), Chapter 17 (Contributory Negligence), Chapter 18 (Professional Negligence), Chapter 21 (Occupiers’ Liability), Chapter 23 (Products Liability), Chapter 27 (Developing Torts), Chapter 29 (Liability), Chapter 30 (Damages) and Chapter 32 (Parties)

Executors and Trustees – Carmen S. Thériault
Release #8 – September 2024

What’s New?

Amendments and updates to the commentary in Chapter 2 (Assets); Chapter 4 (Expenses and Legal Costs); Chapter 5 (Bequests and Beneficiaries); Chapter 14 (Passing Accounts), and Chapter 17 (Dependents’ Relief Claims and Spousal Property on Death).

The Law of Bail in Canada – Hon. Gary T. Trotter
Release #8 – September 2024

What’s New?

Updates to Chapter 8 “Bail Reviews”. Appendix A “Criminal Code Provisions Relating to Bail”, Appendix B “Bail Act 1976 (U.K.)”, and Appendix C “Rules of Court Respecting Bail Pending Appeal”, have been updated to bring the provisions up to date.

Manitoba King’s Bench Rules Annotated – Jonathan M. Woolley (founding author: Karen Busby)
Release #8 – September 2024

What’s New?

Updated annotations, checklists, and legislation updates.

Judicial Review of Administrative Action in Canada – Donald J.M. Brown et al.
Release #3 – October 2024

What’s New?

Updates to the case law and commentary in the following chapters: 1 (Judicial Review Jurisdiction), 2 (The Application for Judicial Review), 3 (Discretionary Bars to Judicial Review), 4 (Parties to a Judicial Review Proceeding), 5 (Commencement of Judicial Review Proceedings), 6 (Interlocutory Proceedings, perfection and Orders), and 7 (The Duty of Fairness: Its Scope and Content).

The Regulation of Professions in Canada – James T. Casey
Release #8 – October 2024

What’s New?

Updates to the case law and commentary in Chapter 2 to 8.

Looseleaf Updates – September

Widdifield on Executors and Trustees – Carmen S. Thériault
Release #7 – September 2024

What’s New?

Amendments and updates to the commentary in Chapter 1 (Funeral); Chapter 2 (Assets); Chapter 4 (Expenses and Legal Costs); Chapter 5 (Bequests and Beneficiaries); Chapter 11 (Executor’s Compensation); Chapter 14 (Passing Accounts); Chapter 15 (Resignation, Removal and Appointment of Trustees); and Words and Phrases.

The Regulation of Professions in Canada – James T. Casey
Release #7 – September 2024

What’s New?

Updates to case histories for cases in the appendices to chapters 13 and 17. it also updates Words and Phrases, Selected Legal Literature and Issues in Focus.

Lawyers & Ethics: Professional Responsibility and Discipline – Gavin MacKenzie
Release #3 – September 2024

What’s New?

Updates to case histories for case law and commentary in Chapters 3 (Confidentiality), 5 (Conflicts of Interest in Litigation), 23 (Admission to the Bar), 25 (Rules of Professional Conduct) and 26 (Discipline Proceedings).

Looseleaf Update

Remedies in Tort – Lewis N. Klar, et al
Release #8 – August 2024

What’s New?

Updates to Chapter 2 (Assault and Battery), Chapter 4 (Conversion and Detinue), Chapter 15 (Malicious Prosecution), Chapter 16 (Negligence)(General)), Chapter 18 (Professional Negligence), Chapter 19 (Negligence (Special)), Chapter 20 (Nuisance), Chapter 21 (Occupiers’ Liability), Chapter 27 (Developing Torts), Chapter 28 (Public Authorities), Chapter 29 (Liability), Chapter 31 (Other Remedies) and Chapter 32 (Parties).

Looseleaf Updates

Regulation of Professions in Canada – James T. Casey
Release #6 – August 2024

What’s New?

Updates to case digests, the Words and Phrases table, the Selected Legal Literature tab and the Legal Memos tab.

Orkin on The Law of Costs – Mark M. Orkin
Release #5 – August 2024

What’s New?

Updates to Chapter 2 – Party-and-Party Costs.

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