Ignoring the lessons of the Costa Concordia disaster led to the destruction of an Edmonton condo building a week later. It is time to wake up and heed the lessons that flow from these cases.
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Case Studies
Top 10 condo law cases of 2011
By Chris Jaglowitz on
Posted in Buying and Selling, Case Studies
It’s time to unveil our picks for the top 10 condo law cases of 2011.
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Court confirms duty to report injury, death of non-workers
By Chris Jaglowitz on
Posted in Case Studies, Legislation & Regulation
A recent court decision clarifies the obligation of employers to report to the Ministry of Labour critical injuries or fatalities suffered by people at their workplace, even non-workers.
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Property management firm liable for unauthorized money transfers
By Chris Jaglowitz on
A recent Ontario Superior Court decision raises several important lessons for condominium directors about controlling their bank accounts.
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Top 10 condo law cases of 2010
By Chris Jaglowitz on
Posted in Case Studies
Here are our picks for the top 10 Ontario condo law cases of the year.
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Court boots out unit owner for “extreme behaviour”
By Andrea Lusk on
Posted in Case Studies, Living Together
The forced sale of a condo unit is among the most drastic remedies a court can order and is granted only in extremely rare circumstances. This is the story of one of those cases.
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Condo liable when superintendent assaults visitor
By Chris Jaglowitz on
Posted in Case Studies
Jia v. TSCC 1479 describes an ugly assault and battery perpetrated by a condominium superintendent against a visitor and provides a number of important lessons.
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Court clarifies full costs recovery provision
By Chris Jaglowitz on
Posted in Case Studies
A recent decision clarifies how condo corporations collect the “additional actual costs” incurred in obtaining compliance orders under the Condominium Act, 1998.
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Court restrains requisition meeting, orders cooling-off period
By Chris Jaglowitz on
Posted in Case Studies, Living Together
Here is a heartbreaking case of a condo on its way down the spiral to hell.
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Condo wins slander of title case but loses bid for complete costs recovery
By Chris Jaglowitz on
Posted in Case Studies, Condominium Act, 1998
Another interesting lesson emerges from Jeffers v. YCC 98, the slander of title case we reported about earlier this year, this time about s.134(5) of the Condo Act.
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