Legal Tweet of the Day: March 28, 2024

#LegalTweetoftheDay: 5 charged following investigation into alleged cheating at Toronto casino #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/28pr7d8j

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: When should you make a Will?

The best time to time to prepare your Last Will is “right now.” 

The end product is only half the benefit. You also benefit from taking stock of all your assets and responsibilities and from planning how you’d like to take care of your loved ones. 

When you talk with a lawyer about your Will, you will get advice and clarity about these concerns and the steps you need to take to keep your affairs in order. There is no more important way to provide for your family and your future.  

- Paul Adam, Toronto

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Legal Tweet of the Day: March 27, 2024

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Raptors' Jontay Porter subject of NBA's gambling investigation #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/573j4juk

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is Probate?

When you name a person in your last will to be the Executor of your Estate, that person sometimes needs to also apply to the Court to be appointed formally as the legal representative of your Estate in order to deal with certain property that you own, potentially like a house or a bank account that solely in your name. 

The process of applying to Court to be appointed as the representative of your Estate is what we call Probate.

- Paul Adam, Toronto

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Legal Tweet of the Day: March 26, 2024

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Calgary judge rules 27-year-old can go ahead with medically-assisted death despite father's concerns #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/3kcs6ees

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Legal Tweet of the Day: March 25, 2024

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Parents file $1.5M lawsuit after Quebec teacher accused of selling students' artwork online #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/55bjyzkn

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Wise Law's Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of March 25, 2024

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Wise Law's Legal Headlines for the week of March 25, 2024

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 25, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:

• Supreme Court Lets Public Office Ban Stand for ‘Cowboys for Trump’ Founder
  

• Roy McMurtry, former Ontario attorney general, dies at 91
  

• Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro indicted for allegedly falsifying COVID-19 vaccination status
  

• Ontario asks retired teachers to work more. Teachers' federation says this has to stop
  

• Israel's High Court orders state to allow two mothers to be listed on child's birth certificate
  

• Staff recommend pilot that allowed alcohol drinking in some Toronto parks be made permanent
  

• Brampton, Ont., tax preparer gets jail for claiming $34 million in fake charitable donations: CRA
  

• Elon Musk's X to pay legal bills for Canadian doctor chastised over COVID-19 tweets
  

• Trump faces hush money case hearing and massive civil fraud bond deadline
  

• Auto insurance changes coming in Ontario budget: sources
  

• E.U. Takes Aim at Alphabet, Apple and Meta in Wide-Ranging Investigations
  

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Legal Tweet of the Day: March 23, 2024

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Staff recommend pilot that allowed alcohol drinking in some Toronto parks be made permanent #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/2fj6ha5t

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 25, 2010 via Wise Law Blog

This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 25, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: On Health Care Reform, Sex Offenders and Viagra https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-health-care-reform-sex-offenders-and.html

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a family member has put money into an investment in your name and you have a co-signed on changes to the investment, does that investment belong to you?

The answer will very often depend on what you and your family member intended. Did they put the investments in your name with the expectation that you would hold it for their benefit, as a convenience, or was it done with the intention that the money was to belong to you? 

Where there is a dispute, Ontario’s Courts will look at the documents or agreements you signed, the intentions of everyone involved and the surrounding circumstances to determine ownership interests. 

- Paul Adam, Toronto

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Legal Tweet of the Day: March 20, 2024

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario asks retired teachers to work more. Teachers' federation says this has to stop #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/39j9amy7

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Providing for Guardianship of your Children in your Last Will

You can definitely name somebody in your last will to have custody and guardianship of your minor children in the event both of the parents pass away.

Now, the appointment you make in you last will is temporary. That person will eventually need to apply to the court to be appointed as a permanent guardian. But, when they make that application, the court will look very closely on who you named in your last will, and factor that in the decision about who should be the permanent guardian of your children.

- Paul Adam, Toronto

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Legal Tweet of the Day: March 19, 2024

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Supreme Court Lets Public Office Ban Stand for ‘Cowboys for Trump’ Founder #law #legal #LawTwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/5y6wvvy9

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Wise Law's Employment #LawFact of the Day: Common law entitlements upon termination

Do employees have different severance entitlements under the Employment Standards Act in wrongful dismissal cases that are decided in Court?

Ontario's Employment Standards Act provides only for employees' minimum notce and severance entitlements.

Unless an enforceable employment agreement provides otherwise, common law entitlements for non unionize employees can be as much as one month for each year of service.

You may be entitled to additional compensation.

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Legal Tweet of the Day: March 18, 2024

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Families of Montreal Airbnb fire victims still searching for justice #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/2b25r7jd

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Wise Law's Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of March 18, 2024

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Wise Law's Legal Headlines for the week of March 18, 2024

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 18, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:

• Israel passes law allowing victims of terrorism to sue the Palestinian Authority for compensation
  

• Montreal musician awarded $1.5M in defamation lawsuit after judge finds he was falsely accused of sexual abuse
  

• Alberta father asks court to stop 27-year-old daughter's medically assisted death
  

• Airbnb to ban hosts from using indoor security cameras in rental properties
  

• Sharing sexual images without consent illegal in Canada since 2015. Recent case shows it's still a problem
  

• Admissibility of Surreptitious Recordings in Court
  

• Former Quebec judge pleads guilty to manslaughter in the death of his wife
  

• Federal government ordered national security review of TikTok, didn't disclose it publicly
  

• B.C. proposes law targeting social media firms for alleged harm
  

• Families of Montreal Airbnb fire victims still searching for justice
  

• Insurers and claimants under strain as weather-related disasters mount in B.C.

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Legal Tweet of the Day: March 15, 2024

#LegalTweetoftheDay: B.C. proposes law targeting social media firms for alleged harm #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/mt849fxe

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 24, 2012

This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 24, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Employment Law: Contractual Entitlement to Notice and the Question of Mitigation https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/06/ontario-employment-law-contractual.html

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Legal Tweet of the Day: March 14, 2024

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Former Quebec judge pleads guilty to manslaughter in the death of his wife #law #legal #lawtwitter via at @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/bdhtm7sz

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a Will makes a gift to "my children", does that include adopted children?

What are the legal rights of adopted children when a parent - biological or adoptive - passes away? If the Will makes a gift to "my children", does that include adopted children?

Under Ontario law, legally adopted children are generally presumed to have the same rights as biological children for estate purposes. 

A testator still has the freedom to make gifts and leave inheritances and specify that they are only for certain, specified children, if she chooses, so the question may depend on interpreting what the deceased intended and the wording of the Will. 

- Paul Adam, Toronto

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Legal Tweet of the Day: March 13, 2024

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Alberta father asks court to stop 27-year-old daughter's medically assisted death #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/2p9mr5n5

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is an Executor?

An Executor is the person who’s the legal representative of your Estate. 

After you die, your Executor is responsible for taking all of the assets and properties that you own and distributing it to your heirs. 

If you’re thinking about who should be your Executor, you want to name a person who is responsible, organized, a good communicator, and who keeps their head in a difficult emotional situation, and if you can pick somebody who lives in Ontario.

- Paul Adam, Toronto

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Legal Tweet of the Day: March 12, 2024

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Israel passes law allowing victims of terrorism to sue the Palestinian Authority for compensation #law #legal #lawtwitter via @haaretzcom https://tinyurl.com/2n97k8ym

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Wise Law's Employment #LawFact of the Day: Non-Competition Agreement

If your employment agreement prohibits you from competing with your employer or soliciting its customers after you leave, those restrictions may not be enforceable.

Non-competition agreements are generally unenforceable against Ontario employees.

Many non-solicitation agreements may also be unenforceable.

Seek legal advise if you have signed such an agreement.

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Legal Tweet of the Day: March 11, 2024

#LegalTweetoftheDay: Lawsuit claiming fertility-tracking app shared intimate data with Facebook greenlit as Canadian class action #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/e75a5a4d

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Wise Law's Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of March 11, 2024

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Wise Law's Legal Headlines for the week of March 11, 2024

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 11, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:

• Supreme Court Poised to Rule on Monday on Trump’s Eligibility to Hold Office
  

• Allen Weisselberg, Key Figure in Trump’s Business, Will Plead Guilty to Perjury
  

• Supreme Court unanimously rules to keep Trump on Colorado ballot
  

• Apple fined almost $2B by the EU in music streaming antitrust probe
  

• Pope mandates retired judge to investigate sexual assault allegations against Quebec City cardinal
  

• B.C. Supreme Court approves $14.4M settlement of iPhone class-action lawsuit
  

• U.N. Team Finds Grounds to Support Reports of Sexual Violence in Hamas Attack
  

• Too young to tweet? Twitter shut down CRA's account over its 'birth date,' records show
  

• Ontario to ban liens from being placed on homes in exchange for HVAC appliances
  

• ‘Rust’ Armorer Convicted of Manslaughter in Alec Baldwin Shooting
  

• Ontario landlord fears over $26K lost forever in long wait for tenant eviction hearing
  

• In unprecedented move, Canadian court issues injunction against anti-Israel protesters
  

• Quebec court temporarily bans protests near several Jewish institutions as groups clash
  

• Fake websites for real companies are scamming Canadian consumers and businesses
  

• 'Not what we do here': Trudeau says some of protests around Israel-Hamas war have crossed line
  

• Arrests made at protest outside Toronto-area synagogue hosting event marketing occupied West Bank land
  

• B.C. woman files lawsuit saying she was injured by stray golf ball while driving
  

• This dog is at the centre of a legal fight between a man's grieving family and girlfriend
  

• Lawsuit claiming fertility-tracking app shared intimate data with Facebook greenlit as Canadian class action
  

• Three people charged after demonstration outside Thornhill synagogue
  

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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