Below are some of the most recent LSO CPD materials added to the library collection and are now available for free online! Come by the library to read these in print or click on the linked titles below to download the articles from AccessCLE.

Six-Minute Real Estate Lawyer 2023 (November 15, 2023)

• Strong mayor powers – a cure to Ontario’s housing crisis? / John Mascarin & Jennifer Bilas
• Becoming content with contents / Doug Bourassa
• Recent court decisions impacting condominium disputes in Ontario / Harry Herskowitz & Amy Crystal
• Making application for absolute title : getting it right and avoiding delays / Izaak de Rijcke

Eight-Minute Family Law Lawyer 2023 (November 28, 2023)

• Child hearsay : a primer / Nicole Tellier
• Contempt findings and penalties in family law / Jessica Brown
• Recognizing foreign marriages and foreign divorces / Michelle DiCarlo
• An uphill battle temporary parenting orders: appeals and motions to vary / David Tobin & Ainsley Doell

12th Human Rights Summit (December 5, 2023)

• Family status and its application to remote work / Ellen Low
• Update on COVID-related human rights cases in employment / Lauri Reesor & Steve Gellatly
• Current issues in Canadian safe sport investigations / Jennifer White
• Regulating the use of AI in hiring : a snapshot of Ontario & NYC! / Nicole Heelan, reviewed by Stephanie Kelley

Civil Appeals: The Year in Review 2023 (December 7, 2023)

• Contract law in 2023 : a year without blockbusters / Geoff Hall & Aya Schechner
• Civil procedure update 2023 / Michael Watson & Alexandra Psellas
• 2023 tort law update / case summaries by Dylan Challinor & Mitchell MGowan
• Limitation periods update : 2023 / Jeremy Opolsky & Alicja Puchta

See the list below for new titles now available at the CCLA library!

2024 Annotated Bank Act with Associated Regulations (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Canada Labour Code (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Copyright Act (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Divorce Act (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Employment Insurance Act (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Ontario Labour Relations Act (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Ontario Landlord and Tenant Statutes (Thomson)

Annotated Ontario Rules of Criminal Practice 2024 (Thomson)

Annual Review of Family Law, 2022-2023 (Thomson)

La Charte canadienne des droits et libertés : les grands énoncés de la Cour suprême, 2023 (Éditions Yvon Blais)

Indigenous Peoples and the Law in Canada: Cases and Commentary 2024 (Thomson)

The Law of Regulatory Investigations in Canada (LexisNexis)

Minimum Maintenance Standards for Municipal Highways (LexisNexis)

Watson and McGowan’s Ontario Civil Practice 2024 (Thomson)

Below are some of the most recent LSO CPD materials added to the library collection and are now available for free online! Come by the library to read these in print or click on the linked titles below to download the articles from AccessCLE.

Intensive Child Protection Training Primer 2023, Day 1 (November 2, 2023)

• Duty counsel in child protection cases / Robin Leighton
• Temporary care and custody motions – tips for parent’s counsel / Katharina Janczaruk
• Explaining the protection finding to your client / Colin Tobias

Intensive Child Protection Training Primer 2023, Day 2 (November 3, 2023)

• Trial preparation tips / Martha Chamberlain, Imran Kamal & Gilead Kay
• A child protection lawyer’s tips for cross examining a child protection worker / Karen Ksienski
• So it’s your turn to cross-examine a witness? Now what? / Paula McGirr
• A child protection lawyer’s tips for direct examination of a parent/caregiver / Karen Ksienski

Safeguarding Real Estate Transactions 2023 (November 15, 2023)

• Everything you need to know about stacking mortgages / Tannis A. Waugh
• Making time matter : time is of the essence clauses in real estate transactions / Mark Dunn & Arash Rouhi
• Cautionary lawyer cases / Reuben Rosenblatt

31st Immigration Law Summit, Day 1 (November 21, 2023)

• Strategies and tips for express entry / Brenda Wong
• Border update and port of entry applications ; CBSA memo (March 8, 2007) / Bill MacGregor
• Top 15 federal court cases in 2023 / Rishma Bhimji & Lou Janssen Dangzalan

31st Immigration Law Summit, Day 2 (November 22, 2023)

• Major case law update / Daniel Engel & Mielka Visnic
• The effects of the judgment in Canadian Council for Refugees v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2023 SCC 17 on s. 7 litigation in the context of the IRPA / Jared Will

See the list below for new titles now available at the CCLA library!

2024 Annotated Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of Canada (Thomson)

2024 Annotated Ontario Education Act (Thomson)

Annotated Ontario Securities Legislation, 59th Ed. (LexisNexis)

Bennett on Commercial Leases in Ontario, 2nd Ed. (LexisNexis)

Bennett’s A to Z Guide to Small Business Bankruptcy and Insolvency, 2nd Ed. (LexisNexis)

Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law: A Practitioner’s Handbook, 4th Ed. (Emond)

Federal Courts Practice, 2024 (Thomson)

Martin’s Ontario Criminal Practice, 2024 Ed. (Thomson)

McLeod’s Ontario Family Law Rules Annotated, 2023-2024 (LexisNexis)

Mitigation in Ontario Employment Law (LexisNexis)

The Privacy Officer’s Guide to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, 2024 Ed. (Thomson)

Prosecuting and Defending Drug Cases, 2nd Ed. (Emond)

Prosecuting and Defending Youth Criminal Justice Cases, 3rd Ed. (Emond)

Sentencing: Principles and Practice, 2nd Ed. (Emond)

Below are some of the most recent LSO CPD materials added to the library collection and are now available for free online! Come by the library to read these in print or click on the linked titles below to download the articles from AccessCLE.

Practice Gems: Administration of Estates 2023 (September 26, 2023)

• Solicitor’s negligence / Jordan Oelbaum & Chris Stankiewicz
• Spousal and dependants’ claims / Nav Shokar & Amelia You
• Administering Estates with Henson Trusts / Lisa Leinveer
• Death, taxes and the executor / Sunita Doobay

24th Employment Law Summit (October 11, 2023)

• Prohibition on wage-fixing and no-poach agreements : what employers need to know / Amy Derickx, Elad Gafni & Michael Walsh
• Federal legislative developments / Claire Boychuk
• Employees, dependent and independent contractors : it’s a matter of character / Melanie Reist & Taylor Maitland
• Workplace harassment and violence investigations best practices for workplace investigations / Dorian Persaud & Barbara Darby

26th Estates and Trusts Summit, Day 1 (October 18, 2023)

• This is not a scam : a warning about the duty to warn / Alex Smith
• Taxation of non-resident beneficiaries of Canadian estates / Sébastien Desmarais, Brian Cohen & Andrew Coates
• Joint tenancy and third-parties – whose rights prevail? / Gillian Fournie & Jonathon Vander Zee
• Attorney battles : invalidating powers of attorney and attorney removal / Brendan Donovan & Tyler Lin

26th Estates and Trusts Summit, Day 2 (October 19, 2023)

• The intersection of estates, criminal & elder law / Kimberly Whaley & Brett Book
• Advising attorneys : issues of capacity and vulnerability / Kathryn Balter & Laura Geddes
• Security and bonds in guardianships / Gemma Charlton
• Top tips to avoid risk in estate planning with clients / Dawn Phillips-Brown, Debra Stephens & Matthew Furrow

See the list below for new titles now available at the CCLA library!

The 2023-2024 Annotated Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Thomson)

The 2024 Annotated Ontario Family Law Act (Thomson)

The 2024 Annotated Ontario Human Rights Code (Thomson)

The 2024 Annotated Tremeear’s Criminal Code (Thomson)

Annual Review of Civil Litigation, 2023 ed. (Thomson)

Bennett on Bankruptcy, 25th Ed. (LexisNexis)

Document Registration Guide, 25th Ed., 2024 (Thomson)

A Guide to Consent & Capacity Law in Ontario, 2024 Ed. (LexisNexis)

A Guide to the Youth Criminal Justice Act, 2023/2024 Ed. (LexisNexis)

The Law of Traffic Offences, Fifth Ed. (Thomson)

Ontario Employment Standards Act: Quick Reference – 2024 Ed. (Thomson)

Ontario Family Law Practice, 2024 Ed. (LexisNexis)

Ontario Planning Legislation 2023 (Thomson)

Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Act & Commentary, 2023/2024 Ed. (LexisNexis)

Personal Injury Damages, 2023 Ed. (LexisNexis)

Supreme Court of Canada Practice 2023 (Thomson)

Below are some of the most recent LSO CPD materials added to the library collection and are now available for free online! Come by the library to read these in print or click on the linked titles below to download the articles from AccessCLE.

The Eight-Minute Labour Lawyer 2023 (June 22, 2023)

• The future of working from home / Sundeep Gokhale
• Procedural fairness issues in workplace investigations / Casey Dockendorff & Nikki Banwait
• Vavilov at the Court of Appeal for Ontario : recent decisions on the reasonableness standard / Aminah Hanif
• Discrimination on the basis of age : the latest cases / Robert Church

The Eight-Minute Employment Lawyer 2023 (June 22, 2023)

• Constructive dismissal update / Alex Sinclair
• An update on the calculation of unjust dismissal damages under the Canada Labour Code / Jeff Hopkins & Lori Khaouli
• Remote work and relevant considerations / Sharaf Sultan
• Consequences at trial for employer clients who behave badly / Gurlal Kler & James Hickey

6th Motor Vehicle Litigation Summit (September 19-20, 2023)

• Litigation loans : considerations for third-party financing in MVA cases / Judith Hull
• Litigation loans : a solution based problem / Bronwyn Martin
• Main areas of professional liability exposure in motor vehicle litigation / Krista Springstead
• “Future loss of competitive advantage – general discussion, review of Rab v. Prescott (2021) and other recent BCCA decisions” / Michael Burgar

Practice Gems: Probate Essentials 2023 (September 26, 2023)

• Valuing assets : what’s in, what’s out, record keeping, and estimates / Alexandra Manthorpe
• Real estate issues in probate / Sara Beheshti
• Sample retainer letter terms / Lucy Main & Brendon Pooran
• Orders for Assistance (Rule 74.15) – How & when do you use them?/ Alexandra Mayeski

See the list below for new titles now available at the CCLA library!

2023 Annotated Ontario Highway Traffic Act (Thomson)

2023 Annotated Ontario Provincial Offences Act (Thomson)

2023-2024 Annotated Ontario Personal Property Security Act (Thomson)

Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, 10th Ed. (Thomson)

Code criminel annoté – 2024 (Thomson)

Federal Access to Information and Privacy Legislation Annotated 2024 (Thomson)

The Law of Independent Legal Advice, 3rd Ed. (Thomson)

Mack’s Criminal Law Trial Book – 2023 Ed. (Thomson)

Martin’s Annual Criminal Code, 2024 Ed. (Thomson)

Ontario Small Claims Court Practice 2024 (Thomson)

Stikeman Income Tax Act Annotated 2023, 74th Ed. (Thomson)

See the list below for new titles now available at the CCLA library!

2023 Annotated Ontario Provincial Offences Act (Thomson)

ADR for Legal Professionals, 2nd Ed. (Emond)

Defending Drinking, Drugs and Driving Cases 2023 (Thomson)

Education Law, 5th Ed. (Thomson)

Interviewing Skills for Legal Professionals, 3rd Ed. (Emond)

Ontario Annual Practice, 2023-2024 Ed. (Thomson)

The Practical Guide to Evidence and Proof in Criminal Cases, 9th Ed. (Emond)

Prosecuting and Defending Offences Against Children, 2nd Edition (Emond)

Rules of Evidence: A Practical Approach, 3rd Ed. (Emond)

Tort and Contract Law for Paralegals, 3rd Ed. (Emond)

Watt’s Manual of Criminal Jury Instructions, Third Ed. (Thomson)

Wills and Estates, Revised 5th Ed. (Emond)

Ziff’s Principles of Property Law, Eighth Ed. (Thomson)