In December 2014, the federal government passed legislation that has important implications to those who have an estate plan that includes the creation of trusts, trust beneficiaries and/or estate trustees. When a Canadian individual taxpayer dies, a testamentary trust is created for tax purposes. Traditionally, income earned by the…
Ottawa law firms Hamilton | Appotive LLP and Kelly Santini LLP are very pleased to announce that the two firms joined together on January 1, 2016. Both firms were started 40 years ago and have been leaders in the Ottawa legal community. Each firm has built a reputation for delivering…
Machaj v. RBC General Insurance Company, 2015 ONSC 4310 – This is motion for summary judgment brought by the defendants on the basis that the plaintiff’s action is statute barred. On January 6th, 2009, the Plaintiff applied for Determination of Catastrophic Impairment. On May 25, 2009, the insurer responded by…
Dube v. RBC Life Insurance Company, 2015 ONCA 641 – In this case the respondent Dube was unable to return to work after he was injured in a car accident. His employer had a group insurance policy with the appellant RBC, providing long term disability benefits to employees. When Dube…
JP Zubec successfully represented Carleton University before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario in a case brought by a graduate student who was withdrawn from a program after her request to extend the deadline for completing the program was denied and her appealed dismissed. During the appeal process, for the…
Kelly Santini’s Andrew Godfrey and Mike D’Aloisio acted for a Crown Corporation, as lender, in the $3.6 Million secured financing of an Ottawa-based automobile retailer with assets in Quebec and Ontario.
Bob Ford and Michael Leaver advised Ottawa-based Kuatro Technologies Inc. on its recent acquisition of a Tier 1 OEM Engineering and Development Centre located in Virginia. Kuatro is a global provider of custom engineered software solutions. Further details on the acquisition can be found in the Kuatro announcement. Kelly Santini…
Imagine discovering that the previous owner of the house you purchased had illegally removed a retaining wall and the municipality was demanding you bring the structure back up to the building code at your cost. Now imagine that the courts have ruled your title insurance policy on the property is…