As a communityThe Community Legal Education Ontario announced that legal information on eight high-need topics have now been made available in languages other than English and French. They include Arabic, Chinese, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, and Urdu.
The topics include as follows:

Children’s aid: Information [...]

The Criminal Lawyers Association, which has been boycotting Legal Aid Ontario since June of 2009 to protest the hourly rate, has announced that it has reached an agreement with the province. Legal Aid will be increasing the hourly tariff for about 5% a year for the next few years.
The news release also says Legal Aid [...]

In April the Ontario government introduced a bill to address violence and harassment in the workplace by requiring employers to prepare a policy with respect to workplace violence and harassment. Bill 168,* Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act, has been carried through second reading, and is now before the Standing Committee prior to third reading. [...]

“Adjournment” means a delay in a proceeding. In civil litigation and administrative appeal proceedings, adjournment requests are common.
Lawyers in Ontario have a professional obligation to consent to reasonable requests concerning “trial dates, adjournments, the waiver of procedural formalities and similar matters that do not prejudice the rights of the client.”
Therefore, even in an acrimonious proceeding [...]

The right of distress, also known as “distraint,” (verb: to distrain) is a common law doctrine where the creditor is entitled to seize the debtor’s properties to satisfy the debt owed. In the context of commercial tenancies, it refers to the landlord’s right to seize chattels (goods) on the premises owned by the tenant if [...]