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Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

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

Family Matters

Kornienko v Walsh-Kornienko (2016 ONSC 7300)
access — e-mail — weekend — child — relocate
Justice L. Sheard

Abu-Zahra v Hendy (2016 ONSC 7244)
child — school — motion — costs — offer
Justice M. Shelston

Noble v Noble (2016 ONSC 7409)
father — matrimonial home — successful — co-operate — cost
Justice A. Doyle

Zigiris v Foustanellas (2016 ONSC 7528)
income — expenses — father — spousal support — child
Justice M. Shelston

Harit v Harit (2016 ONSC 7129)
father — costs — conference — indemnity — motion
Justice S. Corthorn

Lachapelle v Leblanc (2016 ONSC 7245)
spousal support — offer — successful — costs — custody
Justice M. Shelston

Charron v Carrière (2016 ONSC 7523)
payor — tax — lump-sum payment — spousal support — recipient
Justice A. Doyle

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#ThrowbackThursday: Holiday Social!

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Holiday Party Flyer, 1986

 

I rubbed my hands together greedily when I saw this while flipping through our old CCLA newsletters. Tonight is our 3rd Holiday Social at the Knox Church (so you should come!), but this little gem is from our library and lounge drop-in in 1986. Please note: there will be no library orientation tours accompanying tonight’s festivities – just yummy eats, festive drinks, and live music!

Resource Spotlight: Indigenous Writes – A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada

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Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada is currently stored on our “New Books” shelf, and I can easily say I’ve seen more people pick this book up to flip through than any other book we’ve had on the shelf before. Written by Chelsea Vowel, who can be found online at her Twitter handle @apihtawikosisan and website âpihtawikosisân, this book delivers an excellent discussion on Indigenous issues. Sample chapters include “Settling on a Name: Names for Non-Indigenous Canadians,” “Got Status? Indian Status in Canada,” and “What is Cultural Appropriation? Respecting Cultural Boundaries” (among many, many more). Recently, Vowel was interviewed on the CBC radio program “Unreserved” – you can listen to that segment here. If you miss this book while it’s on the new releases shelf, you’ll be able to find it later at E78 .C2 V69 2016.

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

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

Family Matters

Morey v Bisson (2016 ONSC 7252)
jurisdiction — children are habitually residents — custody of the children — forum — care
Justice M. Labrosse

Levesque v Windsor (2016 ONSC 7206)
visits — supervised access — contempt — unsupervised — school
Justice M. Linhares de Sousa

Tajik v Maharlouie (2016 ONSC 7091)
marriage — contests — security for costs — motion — outstanding
Justice M. Linhares de Sousa

Maisonneuve v Preece (2016 ONSC 6987)
evidence — time — father — school — ride
Justice C. MacLeod

Wang v Grenier (2016 ONSC 6939)
motion — parenting — costs — recommendations — affidavits
Justice R. Beaudoin

Rochester v Rochester (2016 ONSC 7075)
equalization — spousal support — divorce — income — time
Justice C. MacLeod

Batten-Carew v Batten (2016 ONSC 6937)
partnership agreement — loan agreement — property — contend — entered
Justice T. Ray

Civil Matters

Lacroix v Dompierre (2016 ONSC 6931)
lien — costs — partial indemnity — breach of trust — added
Justice R. Beaudoin

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#ThrowbackThursday: Civil Litigation Updated 1981

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The 2016 Civil Litigation Conference (aka “Montebello” aka “Civ Lit” aka “Trembello”) kicks off tomorrow, so naturally I hit the stacks to dig up the first ever Civil Litigation Updated program.

Civil Litigation 1981 - Program Day 1Civil Litigation 1981 - Program Day 2

I was looking up other key events from 1981, and just wow – a lot happened that year! Head over to Wikipedia to check out a list (and here’s one of Canada specifically).

 

CCLA Compendium of Damages Awarded in Personal Injury Actions Across Ontario – October 2016 Update

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This one is hot off the press! Just this morning, we were sent the latest update to our Compendium of Damages Awarded in Personal Injury Actions Across Ontario. This guide has been produced for the CCLA for several years, with the assistance of students from the University of Ottawa law school, and under the leadership of The Honourable James Chadwick. This year’s update was prepared by Caleb Timmerman – we thank him tremendously for his work on the project!

To check it out, please click here. For your future reference, you can find this publication on the CCLA website under our “Civil Litigation” practice portal.

Also, if you’re looking for the CCLA’s Compendium of Costs, our most recent update is from 2013 – you can find that here.

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

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

Family Matters

CAS v C.D. (2016 ONSC 6712)
maternal grandmother — children — care — access — affidavits
Justice M. Labrosse

Szonyi v Szonyi (2016 ONSC 6661)
child support — motion — post-dated cheques — matrimonial home — expenses
Justice S. Corthorn

Evans v Evans (2016 ONSC 6612)
spousal support — res judicata — estoppel — efforts to become economically self-sufficient — wife
Justice A. Doyle

Carter v Richer (2016 ONSC 6668)
questioning — arrears — litigant — support — justly
Justice A. Doyle

Civil Matters

Bouragba v Conseil des Écoles Publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario (2016 ONSC 6810)
sub-rule — proceedings — served — email — school
Justice R. Beaudoin

Sagos v Attorney General of Bermuda (2016 ONSC 6806)
written — notice — requisition — pages in length — excepting
Justice R. Beaudoin

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Upcoming Training: CanLII + Lexbox

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Due to the success we had running the library’s first ever webinar back in February, we’ve decided we’d like to do it again! On Thursday, November 24 at 12:00 PM (Eastern), join us, from the comfort of your home or office, for an hour-long look at CanLII. We’ll dive into all the nice features of that website that you might not know how to do (like point-in-time legislation and noting up), as well as take a peek at LexBox, the cool (and free!) web app that allows you to organize and stay on top of your legal research. While we normally do not charge for our legal research sessions, we do have to charge a small fee for this session to cover the cost of the webinar platform. We hope that not having to contend with downtown traffic and parking will more than compensate for the charge!

To register, please click here!

#ThrowbackThursday: Movember 1905

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This is a throwback to a throwback, admittedly, but some things are too good not to share. A few years back, Brenda made a truly fantastic album on our Facebook page: Movember 1905. Taking photo scans from a book we have in the library (The Bench and Bar of Ontario, Brown-Searle Printing Co., 1905), she found some of the best turn of the 20th century mustaches that Ottawa lawyers had to offer. To check out the full album, click here.

Since we’ve entered the month of November, this year’s Movember campaign is in full swing. You can learn all about the initiative at the Movember Foundation website.

Recently Published Ottawa Decisions

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

Family Matters

Yosef v Shabana (2016 ONSC 6312)
non-depletion — settle — husband — spousal support — wife
Justice A. Doyle

Lachapelle v Leblanc (2016 ONSC 6327)
parenting capacity — cost of the assessment — child support — bilingual psychologist in the city — equal net disposable income
Justice M. Shelston

Nagle v Demers (2016 ONSC 6323)
father — parenting — costs — spousal support — child
Justice A. Doyle

Karar v Abo-El Ella (2016 ONSC 6284)
offer to settle — motion — costs — indemnity — access visits
Justice S. Corthorn

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