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  1. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · Julius Melnitzer

    Power of attorney owes no duty of care to grantor's daughter, OCA rules (opens the original)

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    Husband holding wife's power of attorney had no duty to tell her daughter of hospitalizations and death A person acting under a power of attorney for personal care owes no duty of care to the incapable grantor’s adult child, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled. In McNeill v. Phillips, 2026 ONCA 652, released Sept. 15, a panel of Justices Bradley Miller, Gary Trotter and Jill Copeland dismissed Sandra McNeill’s appeal from a Superior Court order striking her claim against Kenneth Phillips.

  2. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Julius Melnitzer

    THC sticker enough for warrantless search, OCA rules (opens the original)

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    Defence lawyers say Cannabis Control Act asks too little of officers conducting warrantless searches A vape pen bearing a THC sticker, sitting beside a vehicle’s gearshift, gave police reasonable grounds to search the car and its occupant without a warrant, despite not questioning the driver or examining the pen, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled. Criminal defence lawyers have criticized the ruling. What emerges, they say, is how little the Cannabis Control Act asks of police before they

  3. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Julius Melnitzer

    Jewish lawyers’ group decries LSO inaction on antisemitism at TMU (opens the original)

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    LSO rejected motion seeking withdrawal of TMU’s accreditation, Muslim lawyer supports ‘measured response’ The Canadian Jewish Law Association (CJLA) has criticized the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) for its response to the Benotto report on antisemitism at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and called for regulatory and governmental oversight of the university’s Lincoln Alexander School of Law. “The LSO is not taking this issue seriously enough,” wrote CJLA chair Joseph Neuberger of Neuberger &

  4. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Julius Melnitzer

    Licensees may obtain disclosure in interlocutory suspension proceedings (opens the original)

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    LSO tribunal accepts LSO reading of disclosure rule but refuses its ‘exceptional circumstances’ test The Law Society Tribunal has ruled that licensees may be entitled to disclosure in support of their responses to interlocutory suspension proceedings. The Tribunal accepted the Law Society of Ontario’s submission that it had no disclosure obligations at all on interlocutory suspension motions absent a Tribunal order. But it rejected the notion that licensees had to demonstrate “exceptional circum

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