Jennifer Walker

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

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

This entry was posted on March 31, 2020 by Jennifer Walker

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

Family Matters

Lapp v. Dunn (2020 ONSC 1720)
income — imputed — child support — arrears — payor
Justice S. Gomery

Cohen v. Cohen (2020 ONSC 1717)
motion — offer — settle — costs on a full recovery — testify
Justice S. Corthorn

DeGiorgio v. DeGiorgio (2020 ONSC 1674)
recording — father — child — admissible — electronic record
Justice J. Mackinnon

Civil Matters

Cowley v. Skyjack Inc. et al. (2020 ONSC 1718)
subrogation — benefits — double recovery — private insurance exception — motion
Justice S. Corthorn

Baker v. Maloney (2020 ONSC 1929)
covid — https — ontariocourts — can purchase a new draft — reattended
Justice S. Kershman

Linking to Conference Materials on CanLII

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

With our announcement that the CCLA Conference Papers Database has moved to CanLII, we are sure some of you are wondering how you can link to your work (for example, if you wanted to link from your firm website to a paper you gave). This is very easy to do on CanLII, so here are the step by step instructions!

1. Find Your Paper

You can find your paper by browsing through the contents for each conference, or you can use the search box on the Conference Proceedings page to look for your paper title or your name.

2. When you’ve found your paper, look at the boxed heading at the top of the page

3. Copy the permanent link, and use that link for your website (or wherever!)

If you’re curious, that same tidy permanent link is available on all documents on CanLII. If you’re using CanLII at all – and you probably are or should be! – check that out for a nice, stable link in your documents.

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Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

This entry was posted on March 17, 2020 by Jennifer Walker

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

Family Matters

Proulx v. Guy (2020 ONSC 1285)
spousal support — offer to settle — retroactive child support — life insurance — amount
Justice A. Doyle

Bloom v. Bloom (2020 ONSC 1397)
father — spousal support — children — genuine issue requiring — variation
Justice J. Audet

Civil Matters

Perodeau v. TD Canada Trust et al. (2020 ONSC 1542)
fiduciary duty — renewal — borrower — insurance — res judicata
Justice S. Corthorn

Eureka 93 Inc. et. al. (Re) (2020 ONSC 1482)
noteholders — creditors — proposal — interim financing — cannabis
Justice C. MacLeod

Byeongheon Lee v. 2321324 Ontario Inc. (2020 ONSC 1473)
landlord — lease — dry-cleaning business — equipment — premises
Justice C. Hackland

The Economical Insurance Group v. Desjardins Insurance (2020 ONSC 1363)
arbitrator — claimants — principally dependent — injured — insurer
Justice C. MacLeod

Romain et al v. Reid et al (2020 ONSC 1405)
production — discovery — motion — children — probative
Justice S. Gomery