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Court sets out guidelines on contingency fee retainer in personal injury case

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--> Become A CE Member: The only thing that keeps our journalism going is YOU. CE members get access to exclusive benefits and support our shared mission.. Click here to learn more! To make a long story short, the retainer fee I had submitted was eventually returned to me, as the legal counsel wanted to focus on only a few of the most egregious cases. In my particular case, I had obtained a mask exemption based on conscience for my 6-year old son, and after the complete runaround I experienced up and down the school board, where no individual from the principal to the director of education ...

Preservation of property during litigation is dealt with under rule 45 of the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure. The traditional test under rule 45 was designed for situations where the thing being preserved was the subject of the litigation, such as an asset over which ownership was disputed. This test was not appropriate for all of the situations when rule 45 motions might arise. The Ontario Court of Appeal recently determined that a single test for rule 45 motions does not exist. The governing test will vary depending on the purpose of the motion. Accordingly, the test on a rule 45 motion ...

knowingly making the misrepresentations. Under the Limitations Act, 2002, a "claim" is discovered when the person with the claim first knew or ought to have known "that the injury, loss or damage was caused by or contributed to by an act or omission" (among certain other criteria). As a claim necessarily involves a legal remedy, the act or omission that must be discovered is one that will give rise to a legal remedy, i.e., a cause of action. Therefore, the Court reasoned, in the case of a fraudulent misrepresentation the act or omission that must have been discovered is a misrepresentation...