Real Estate
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January 16, 2025
Blakes partner roster expands
Blakes has named Allan Morgan, Rodney Perkins, Brittany Shamess, Christina Sutcliffe, Daniel Szirmak and Annika Wang as new partners.
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January 16, 2025
Ontario’s top wills & estates cases of 2024
As we usher in 2025 and bid adieu to 2024, it’s an excellent time to reflect on how the law evolved over the last year. For wills and estates practitioners, 2024 was an especially eventful year.
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January 15, 2025
New anti money laundering rules increase obligations for private ATM owners, title insurers
Owners of white label automated teller machines (ATM) and title insurers will be subjected to enhanced disclosure obligations and reporting requirements starting Oct. 1, 2025, according to regulatory amendments issued earlier this month.
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January 15, 2025
Blakes announces new partners in Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Vancouver
Claire Hildebrand, Jean-Simon Lamarre, Rachel Lehman, Fraser Malcolm, Sophie Mansfield and Mike Maodus have been made partners at Blakes.
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January 14, 2025
B.C. Court of Appeal clarifies nemo dat rule in upholding $25.5M property sale contract
The B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled that a contract for the $25.5 million sale of three North Vancouver properties is valid, overturning a decision that deemed it unenforceable because the sellers did not own shares required for transfer under a share purchase option.
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January 14, 2025
Settlement of $7.3 million reached in Windsor highrise fire class action
A settlement of $7.3 million has been reached in a class action relating to a fire in a downtown Windsor, Ont. highrise apartment building that displaced its tenants.
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January 14, 2025
New partners at Blakes
Michael Barrett, Rochelle Collette, Rebecca Dawe, John Fast Catherine Gagné and Marc-Philippe Gagnon have been made partners at Blakes.
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January 13, 2025
2024 costliest year in Canadian history for weather-related insurance losses at $8.5 billion
Insured damage in 2024 caused by severe weather events exceeded $8 billion for the first time ever in Canada, surpassing the previous record of $6 billion in 2016 from the Fort McMurray wildfires and was triple that of the losses in 2023. It was also 12 times the $701 million annual average for the 2001-2010 decade, according to Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc.
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January 13, 2025
Court: Repair company not responsible for payments made by debtors to fraudulent intermediary
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that a repair company was not liable for losses incurred by a property owner who made payments to an intermediary based on fraudulent representations.
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January 13, 2025
Four new partners for Dickinson Wright
Four new partners have been elected to the Toronto office of Dickinson Wright. According to a statement from the firm, the following appointments were effective Jan.1.