LSO and Gregory Stephen Neinstein
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IBC president: “We have a long way to go in Canada” when it comes to insurance
The president of the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) shared his thoughts about the state of Canada’s insurance industry during the bureau’s recent luncheon event.
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Checking in on Auto Insurance Prices in Ontario
Car insurance is one of those things that Ontarians have long since complained about. Residents don’t have an option, car insurance is needed in order to drive, but the insurance premiums can feel quite high and as though they are constantly increasing.
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Ontario launches Civil Case Management Pilot – One Judge Model
Litigation cases are taking too long to move through the system. Ontario had to find a way to relieve some of the backlog that has been piling up and straining judicial resources. In 2018, I had the pleasure of participating in a case management pilot planning group chaired by Chief Justice Strathy, that also included members of the judiciary, the Ministry of the Attorney General, the Ontario Bar Association, the Advocates Society, the Law Society, and others, with the goal of examining support to explore utilizing a one judge model here in Ontario.
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The Coming End of Lawyer Control Over Legal Regulation
At the end of last year, as John-Paul Boyd ably chronicled on this website, members of the Law Society of BC voted on three resolutions regarding access to justice. The second of these resolutions — directing the law society to bar paralegals from providing family law services under new provincial legislation and to postpone any other enlargement of paralegals’ scope of practice — received overwhelming approval.