Earlier this month, the Government of Ontario announced that it will deliver a ‘new digital justice solution that will transform how people handle their legal matters at the Superior and Ontario Courts of Justice.’ The goal of the solution is to enable court users to work through the legal process online, removing the need to …
In December, Ontario’s Attorney General, Doug Downey, addressed the Empire Club of Canada via video stream. The medium fit Mr. Downey’s message: that, after years of paralysis in the face of the gargantuan task, Ontario’s justice system was finally prepared to embrace the type of modernization that victims’ rights advocates, legal associations, personal injury lawyers, …
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Just as it touched every facet of our society, COVID-19 had devastating impacts on Ontario’s civil justice system, impacts which will be felt years into the future. However, the issues affecting the system during and in the wake of the pandemic are not new – even before the March 2020 lockdowns took effect, Ontario’s courts …
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This month, in Ireland, a woman brought a personal injury claim before the country’s High Court on behalf of her child, who was catastrophically injured in a motor vehicle accident in February 2016. The child was just three and a half months old at the time of the collision and suffered ‘multiple skull fractures,’ according …
As the country gradually rolls back COVID-19 lockdown measures, court systems across Canada are considering how to safely reopen their doors. In Ontario, where courts already faced a significant backlog, there have been no jury trials and limited judge-only trials since a state of emergency was declared in March. As a result, numerous personal injury …
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On April 1, the Government of Ontario enacted changes to court fees and fee waiver eligibility under the Administration of Justice Act. The changes, which have already been criticized by some personal injury lawyers, are intended to bring the province closer to “full cost recovery,” the Ministry of the Attorney General told the CBC. Legal …
In September 2012, the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) formed its Alternative Business Structures (ABS) Working Group to explore alternative options to permitted law and paralegal firm structures. In general, ABS’s – which are legal in England, Wales and Australia, but not Canada – allow individuals without legal licenses to own organizations that provide …
