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We are looking for volunteers who have sustained a Traumatic Brain Injury are needed for a research study on walking to musical rhythms.
This study is conducted by Dr. Kara Patterson and her research team.
We are recruiting participants who have sustained their first traumatic brain injury within the past year for a study looking at the relationship between rhythm and relearning walking skills following injury.
Ontario will mail cheques to 400 people this month as it begins its basic income pilot project, two ministers announced in Hamilton Wednesday.
Hamilton and Brantford are among the locations where the province is experimenting with the idea of giving people an amount of money each month without the strings attached that typically accompanies government assistance cheques.
Campisi Charter Challenge Appeal Oct 2017
52. The legislative effects, in these circumstances, prohibit access to fundamental health care, cause ongoing serious psychological impairments, and are caused by a delay imposed by the legislation and its implementation. As such, the case is analogous to Chaoulli.
53. In summary, it is respectfully submitted that s. 267.5(1) of the Insurance Act violates s. 7 of the Charter by:
a. threatening the security of person by causing ongoing physical and psychological harm and by impeding recovery from physical and psychological damage from the accident, and
b. violating the principles of fundamental justice due to arbitrariness insofar as it is inconsistent with the objectives of the legislative scheme, overbroad by including individuals who are highly motivated to settle as quickly as possible, and grossly disproportionate as it punishes those who cannot work to a greater extent than any other group for delays in litigation.
CANADIAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-15.html
This is part one of a four-part series on navigating complaints to the Law Society of Upper Canada. In this installment, personal injury lawyer Darryl Singer discusses his work representing lawyers at the Law Society Tribunal, and what inspired his interest in the area.
A new provincial private member’s bill would result in more appropriate punishments for drivers who kill or injure pedestrians and cyclists, says Toronto critical injury lawyer and safety advocate Patrick Brown.
Brown, partner with McLeish Orlando LLP, was recently at Queen’s Park for the introduction of Bill 158, the Protecting Vulnerable Road Users Act by NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo.
Technological innovations are changing the way we live our lives. Not only is technology impacting our daily tasks and routines, but it is changing the way most professions and industries conduct business. The legal field is no different. In recent years, lawyers, insurance companies and courts have leveraged the benefits of technology to do their jobs more effectively.
http://www.findlaylaw.ca/blog/
An attempt to bar insurance-paying drivers from civil juries would kill the system as we know it, says Toronto personal injury lawyer Jessica B. Mahabir.
In an ongoing personal injury case, the plaintiff has brought a motion to exclude drivers who pay premiums from the jury pool altogether, reasoning that the possibility a large damages award could cause a hike in their own rates leaves them in an inherent conflict of interest.
RS was injured in a car accident on December 13, 2014. He applied for and was paid a non-earner benefit under the SABs. RS appealed Aviva’s stoppage of his non-earner benefit effective May 27, 2016 to the LAT.
Ah, the fine print. Lawyers always read the fine print because we so often need to refer to it in our cases.
But when many people see a block of legalese in two point font they simply shrug their shoulders, ignore it, or scroll past it to click the “Yes I have read all the terms and conditions” option and get on with their lives.
http://www.hshlawyers.com/blog