By Susan Irwin, Executive Director / Lawyer, Rural Legal Services The law is always changing. Each year brings an almost unbelievable onslaught of new legislation, amendments to existing legislation and supporting regulations and, of course, new interpretations of the law by our Courts. Lawyers are supposed to keep up with it all… READ MORE

Written by Susan Irwin, Lawyer/Executive Director

By Susan Irwin, Executive Director / Lawyer, Rural Legal Services Earlier in the week while on route to Kingston I noticed the driver in the adjacent car talking animatedly on his hand-held cell phone. The gentleman was either blissfully unaware of or deliberately ignoring Ontario’s new law banning the use of hand-held… READ MORE

by Peter Graham, Lawyer, Rural Legal Services The Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services has undertaken a project to review and reform the Ontario Corporations Act (CA) in order to develop a new legal framework to govern the structure and activities of charities and not-for-profit corporations in Ontario. The update… READ MORE