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Oct
01
2000
CBAO to Rescue
There are times when the Canadian Bar Association (“CBA”) and Canadian Bar Association – Ontario (“CBAO”) must blow their own horns – no one else will it do it for them. Since this writer is the treasurer of CBAO, now seems to be as good a time as any.
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01
2000
Retainer
In a seminar that this writer attended at the CBA annual convention, the speaker stated that lawyers should put pictures of their loved ones on their desks – facing them. The lawyers should look at these pictures and then ask their clients for cash up front.
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01
2000
Legal Fees
You often, indeed almost invariably, see a mortgage commitment in which the mortgagor agrees to pay the mortgagee’s legal fees. In some residential mortgages and in many commercial mortgages, different lawyers represent the mortgagee and the mortgagor. Are there any controls over the amount that the mortgagee’s lawyers can charge? In Plaza Financial Corporation v. National Bank of Canada (2000), 47 O.R. (3d) 641 (C.A.), the mortgagee said no.
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