
Considerations in Administering Class Action Settlements
A presentation co-authored by David Thompson & Mary M. Thomson outlining considerations in administering class action settlements.

A presentation co-authored by David Thompson & Mary M. Thomson outlining considerations in administering class action settlements.

One of the emerging issues in Ontario law has been the judicial rulings against termination clauses in an employer’s offer letter or employment agreement, which set outs an employee’s entitlement on termination of his or her employment.

As a result of the introduction of the Condominium Act, 1998, R.S.O. 2001, as amended; (the “Act”), a number of new condominium development options were introduced, causing many real estate lawyers to lack clarity on the changes.

While business law is not often correlated to spectacles filled with baton twirling or snippets of autobiographical monologues, there are times when a business will want to parade its attractiveness to a third party, such as a financing bank.

It is surprising the number of lawyers who do not appear to fully understand the full extent of their obligations with respect to escrow closings in the real estate context.

This paper addresses the means by which a property owner may make application to convert the title of the property from either Registry to Land Titles Absolute (LTA) or from Land Titles Conversion Qualified (LTCQ) to Land Titles Absolute Plus (LTA+), thereby providing the land owner with arguably the highest form of title available in the province.