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Rudy Mezzetta Estate practitioners are applauding an Ontario government proposal to provide courts with the power to save wills that might otherwise be found invalid due to technical errors — a power that already exists in the majority of Canadian jurisdictions. When a will is deemed invalid, estate property is distributed according to the intestacy rules found in a province’s estate act, rather than as the deceased may have intended. In all provinces except Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador, the courts have a mechanism to save an otherwise invalid will and declare it valid. The eight...

Rudy Mezzetta Estate practitioners are applauding an Ontario government proposal to provide courts with the power to save wills that might otherwise be found invalid due to technical errors — a power that already exists in the majority of Canadian jurisdictions. When a will is deemed invalid, estate property is distributed according to the intestacy rules found in a province’s estate act, rather than as the deceased may have intended. In all provinces except Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador, the courts have a mechanism to save an otherwise invalid will and declare it valid. The eight...

Summary The Government of Ontario recently introduced legislation that proposes to combine an existing cluster of five land and environmental tribunals into a single entity called the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT). The OLT will merge the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT), the Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT), the Conservation Review Board, the Mining and Lands Tribunal, and the Board of Negotiation. Bill 245, the Bill 245") is an omnibus bill that includes the proposed enactment of a new Ontario Land Tribunal Act, 2021 (the " Act"), which would amalgamate these five tribunals. The gove...

By Chandra Vikash*    We live in a globalized and dominantly urbanized society where 99% of all humans are both vulnerable and disadvantaged and 100% of them face extinction within 2-3 decades if the present self-destructive world order with fatal flaws, continues any further.  Few such are a. the mass private ownership of the automobile b. artificial air-conditioning c. piped water and water pollution d. piped electricity and e. light and electro-magnetic fog pollution. To illustrate, more than 5 billion and fast breeding numbers of “Car Bombs” – Weapons of Mass Destruction – hid...

On February 22, 2021, the Attorney General for Ontario tabled Bill 245, Accelerating Access to Justice Act, 2021, which has now received Second Reading.