Jennifer Walker

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

This entry was posted on July 7, 2020 by Jennifer Walker

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Levesque v. Windsor (2020 ONSC 4087)
costs — stay motion — urgency determination — success — offer to settle
Justice J. Mackinnon

CAS v. A.H. and K.T. (2020 ONSC 4025)
child — in-person access — home — supervision — father
Justice D. Summers

Hassan v. Jones (2020 ONSC 4007)
school — maternal grandmother — child — commute — immersion
Justice M. Smith

Guertin v. Dumas (2020 ONSC 4002)
father — cheerleading program — child support — custody — income
Justice S. Corthorn

Hearty v. Hearty (2020 ONSC 3875)
school — children — parenting time — best interest — home
Justice M. Smith

Update on the CCLA Conference Papers Collection on CanLII

This entry was posted on June 30, 2020 by Jennifer Walker

Back in March, we were thrilled to announce that CCLA conference papers were now being stored on CanLII. The team at CanLII and Lexum has been hard at work, and the great news is that all of the papers that are scheduled to be hosted are now up! You can find papers from the Family, Solicitors, Criminal, and Civil Litigation conferences from 2014 up to 2019 in CanLII’s Commentary section. Once we start hosting conferences again, new papers will be deposited with CanLII within just a few months of the event.

If you’re interested in how to find and link to your papers, check out this post we did in March.

Thanks, as always, to CanLII for hosting our papers!

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

This entry was posted on June 23, 2020 by Jennifer Walker

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

O’Connor v. Merlo (2020 ONSC 2531)
access — child support — parenting time — income — texts
Justice D. Summers

Burke v. Bouzane (2020 ONSC 3739)
school — costs — father — children — offer to settle
Justice A. Doyle

Stewart & Bernard v. Fuhgeh et al. (2020 ONSC 3789)
affidavit — conference — motion — set aside — orders
Justice M. Shelston

CAS v. S.K. et al (2020 ONSC 3689)
mental health — chronic delusional disorder — child — evidence — support network
Justice M. Smith

CAS v. A.H. and J.P. (2020 ONSC 3449)
child — care — alcohol — domestic violence — maternal aunt
Justice D. Summers

Madi v. King (2020 ONSC 3611)
motion — parenting — adjournment request — daughter — child
Justice R. Ryan Bell

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

This entry was posted on June 9, 2020 by Jennifer Walker

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Zeitoun v. Abdallah (2020 ONSC 3500)
bested — costs — conference — motion — fixing
Justice J. Mackinnon

Sears v. Coristine (2020 ONSC 3450)
father — costs — motions — affidavits — docketed
Justice S. Corthorn

Hewitt v. Doyle (2020 ONSC 3416)
father — children — best interests — matrimonial home — parent
Justice A. Doyle

N. S. v R. M. (2020 ONSC 3359)
include both parents surnames — mistake — functus officio — father — draft
Justice A. Doyle

Burke v. Bouzanne (2020 ONSC 3336)
school — children — attend — schools — father
Justice A. Doyle

Balbachir c. Babalchir (2020 ONCS 3264)
pandémie — éclosion — conférence — chiot — virus
Protonotaire A. Kaufman

St. Louis v. St. Louis (2020 ONSC 3205)
father — children — access — mediated — coronavirus
Justice J. Mackinnon

Civil Matters

Attorney General of Ontario v. 947014 Ontario Inc. & Michael Norwood (Estate) (2020 ONSC 3510)
estate trustee — forfeiture — property — legitimate owner — settlement
Justice C. Hackland

Cohen v. Cohen Estate (2020 ONSC 88)
questioning — three-part test — evidence — recording — written interrogatories
Justice S. Corthorn

Information for 2020-2021 Summer and Articling Students

This entry was posted on June 5, 2020 by Jennifer Walker

Even though we may be living in extraordinary times, particularly for the justice sector, the staff of the CCLA Library are still here for you. This is especially true for this year’s summer and articling students. Normally, we invite students to come to the CCLA to meet us, have a tour of our space, and learn about our library services. As we don’t have a projected re-opening date, we aren’t able to invite students over, but we still very much want to meet them. Working with students is one of our favourite and most important jobs, so if you don’t read any further in this blog post, please pass along our email (library@ccla-abcc.ca) to your students!

If you will be taking on students (or already have), for either a summer term or for an articling year, please let us know! Student memberships in the CCLA are available – find out more and register here. However, if you aren’t sure that you’ll be signing your students up for membership, we’d still be grateful if you could send us a quick note with the names and emails of your students so that we can reach out to them and let them know about the CCLA Library.

As always, please encourage your students to sign up for our free email newsletter at this link. The CCLA News weekly newsletter and special announcements are a vital form of connection for the Ottawa legal community, and we’d love to have them on our list.

HeadStart Ottawa: Legal Research for Articling and LPP Students

In previous years, we’ve held a session exclusively for articling and LPP students called “HeadStart Ottawa.” While we may not have access to our physical space this year, we are delighted to announce that we will be planning a virtual HeadStart program for later this summer. Details on this free session will be available soon, so keep an eye out for that!

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

This entry was posted on May 26, 2020 by Jennifer Walker

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Levesque v. Windsor (2020 ONSC 3110)
child — father — stay — anxiety — irreparable harm
Justice J. Mackinnon

Dehaan v. Billings-Turner (2020 ONSC 3002)
children — access — temporary parenting agreement — affidavit — supervised
Justice R. Ryan Bell

Civil Matters

Kossay El-Khodr v. Northbridge Commercial Insurance Company (2020 ONSC 3160)
costs outline — amount — disbursements — unsuccessful — permitted to ask
Justice H. Williams

Perodeau v. TD Canada Trust et al. (2020 ONSC 3057)
fees — substantial indemnity scale — costs — motion — disbursements
Justice S. Corthorn

Przybytek v. 3002071 Canada Inc. (2020 ONSC 3045)
costs — second mortgage — lawyer — lender — application
Justice H. Williams

Attorney General of Ontario v. 947014 Ontario Inc. & Michael Norwood (Estate) (2020 ONSC 2945)
corporation — legal expenses incurred — disbursements — cap — payment
Justice C. Hackland

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

This entry was posted on May 12, 2020 by Jennifer Walker

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Perreault v. Marleau (2020 ONSC 2828)
child — self-isolation — without the father — return — motion
Justice J. Mackinnon

O’Connor v. Merlo (2020 ONSC 2531)
access — child support — parenting time — income — texts
Justice D. Summers

Zeitoun v. Abdallah (2020 ONSC 2770)
children — father — parenting time — residential — home
Justice J. Mackinnon

Charlton v. Coburn (2020 ONSC 2690)
income — spousal support — increase — impute — mid-range
Justice T. Engelking

Fluet v. Arbarbanel (2020 ONSC 2705)
child support — urgent — credit — line — mortgage
Master A. Kaufman

Upcoming Legal Research Webinars

This entry was posted on May 7, 2020 by Jennifer Walker

As both Thomson Reuters (the publisher of WestlawNext Canada and ProView) and Lexis Nexis (of Lexis Advance Quicklaw) have both extended offers to Ontario legal practitioners for at-home access during the COVID-19 emergency, we at the CCLA have set up some online training on all of these products for you to brush up on your skills!

Lexis Advance Quicklaw Webinar – Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Brush up on your research skills! Join us on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at noon for an hour-long virtual training session on Lexis Advance Quicklaw. If you use this database but could use some fresh instruction on how to use it more effectively, this is the session for you.

This program has been LSO accredited for 1.0 CPD hour toward the annual Professionalism Requirement.

There is no cost for this program. Please click here for more information and to register!

WestlawNext Canada Webinar – Tuesday, May 19, 2020 & Thomson Reuters ProView Webinar – Tuesday, May 25, 2020

Brush up on your research skills! Join us online for our free upcoming training on WestlawNext and ProView (e-books and e-looseleafs). Please register at the links below:

WestlawNext Canada: Tuesday, May 19, 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Thomson Reuters ProView: Tuesday, May 25, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

These programs has been LSO accredited for 1.0 CPD hour each toward the annual Professionalism Requirement.

Personalized Virtual Training Sessions for WestlawNext and ProView – Anytime!

These times don’t work for you? Want something a little different? We’re also pleased to share that you can now schedule your own personalized virtual training session on WestlawNext or ProView with our wonderful trainer, Josée Provost. To schedule a session, please click here!

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

This entry was posted on April 28, 2020 by Jennifer Walker

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Potvin v. Boros (2020 ONSC 2398)
motion — notice-to-the-profession-the-public-and-the-media-regarding-civil-and-family-proceedings-update — divorce — email
Justice P. MacEachern

Tessier v. Rick (2020 ONSC 2391)
father — child — access — household — partner
Justice P. MacEachern

Jumale v. Mahamed (2020 ONSC 2316)
urgency — child support — costs — request — deficiencies
Justice J. Mackinnon

Mwadi c. Mihalache (2020 ONSC 2280)
dépens — pension alimentaire — arriéré — autoreprésentée — dossier
Juge M. Labrosse

Stewart v Reid (2020 ONSC 2262)
father — children — timesharing — homeschooling — motion
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Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

This entry was posted on April 14, 2020 by Jennifer Walker

Find below recently published Ottawa decisions, available for free through CanLII.org.

Family Matters

Hamad v. Al-Rewashdy (2020 ONSC 2093)
matrimonial home — equalization — former — spouse — urgent
Justice J. Mackinnon

Abesteh v. Eagle (2020 ONSC 2086)
urgent — motion — everts — home — child
Justice J. Mackinnon

J.D. v. N.D. (2020 ONSC 2089)
motion — father — children — urgent — recording
Justice J. Mackinnon

Guerin v Guerin (2020 ONSC 2016)
matrimonial home — father — pandemic — children — protocol
Justice A. Doyle