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Feb
01
2007
Instructions
Lawyers must keep confidential the dealings that they have with their clients unless they have contrary instructions. What happens when a lawyer is tricked into revealing confidential information? This was dealt with in Gidda v. Malik Law Office [2006] O.J. No. 4230 (SCJ).
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01
2007
Paper
If lawyers do not paper their files, they will get themselves into trouble. Good paper can result in a disgruntled client not commencing an action. No paper or poor paper may result in an action, whose outcome may be very much in doubt. An example of no paper arose in Liorti v. Menzies, [2005] O.J. No. 5564 (SCJ).
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01
2007
Land Fraud
Title fraud has certainly become a hot-button issue in the last 6 months. However, we have been encountering it for the last 6 years. Since many of our readers, who are employed in debt collection, are also homeowners, we thought that a quick summary of the cases and the latest legislation would be of interest. We had previously discussed this topic in our April 2006 newsletter, but we have updated the discussion and added some views from a different perspective.
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