Kelly Santini’s Andrew Godfrey and Michael Leaver advised founders Tony Greco, Paolo Fiorin and the Greco Fitness company on its recent investment deal with New York-based investment firm Integrity Square. The new investment aims to help Greco Fitness expand into new markets. For more on the investment, see “Greco Fitness…
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Welcome to our articling students
September 2016
We are very pleased to welcome recent law school grads Chantel Helwer (University of Manitoba), Kentt Coburn (University of Ottawa), Kate Craner (Osgoode Hall) and Jennifer Cox (University of Calgary) to the firm for their articling year.
OMB Dismisses Claim for Additional Compensation for Expropriated Land
Eric Appotive successfully represented the Township of Admaston / Bromley before the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) in an expropriation claim for injurious affection. The claim was brought by the landowner after the Township expropriated a parcel of land in conjunction with a former landfill site.The plaintiffs claimed for increased compensation…
Accomplished Legal Team Joins Kelly Santini LLP
September 2016
Kelly Santini LLP is pleased to welcome veteran Ottawa lawyer Paul Conlin and associate Zachary Gaulin to the firm. Paul has been a stalwart of the Ottawa legal community for over forty years. Their wide-ranging practice adds to the firm’s depth in the areas of family law, real estate, estate…
‘Labour Pains’ and the SCC
August 2016
A post from employment lawyer Sean Bawden’s award winning ‘Labour Pains’ blog made it into the written submissions to the Supreme Court of Canada in Wilson v AECL. Just because you haven’t appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada (yet), it doesn’t mean they aren’t listening to what you have…
Court of Appeal Upholds Relief from Forfeiture in the Case of Imperfect Compliance
Dams v TD Home and Auto Insurance Company 2016 ONCA 4 This case concerned the appeal and cross-appeal of a Superior Court of Justice decision from November 2014. On June 26, 2009, the appellant, Wolfgang Dams, stopped his motorcycle for a red light at an intersection. Mr. Dams slowly turned…
The Breadth of Exclusions: Direct v Resulting Damage
Monk v. Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Co. (Lindsay) 2015 ONCA 911 In this case, the appellant hired a restoration company to restore the exterior of her home using a renovation technique that involved the use of water. The company was required by contract to seal any part of the exterior where…
New Deductibles Applicable Retroactively
Corbett v Odorico, 2016 ONSC 1964 This is a post-verdict decision with respect to the applicable statutory deductibles, pre-judgment interest calculation, and set-offs to this decision. The jury returned its verdict on December 16, 2015, and awarded the Plaintiff and her family the sum of $141,500.00 which was broken down…