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Top Ten Condo Law Cases of 2023

By Tony Bui, Andrea Lusk & An Nguyen on January 5, 2024
Posted in Case Studies, Condo Alert!

Happy New Year to our readers.

We hope 2024 is a year of peace, balance and prosperity. We present our top ten condo law cases of 2023 in our newest issue of Condo Alert!

Here’s hoping the past decisions help us in navigating noise, nuisance vs. maintenance, repair and chargeback disputes and promote our oft…

Boats, legislation changes and more…

By Andrea Lusk on August 18, 2023
Posted in Condo Alert!

Our Summer 2023 issue of the Condo Alert! reports on a grab bag of items including upcoming changes to the Condo Act and condo adjacent matters.

Enjoy the rest of the summer,

Andrea

The top 10 condo law cases of 2022!

By Andrea Lusk on December 30, 2022
Posted in Condo Alert!

We start the 11th volume of our newsletter, Condo Alert!, Winter 2022, with our annual Top 10 condo cases review. 

The CAT expanded its jurisdiction on January 1, 2022 to include noise and nuisance cases, and with that 2022 saw an influx on CAT decisions on wide ranging matters, from pets to nuisance to…

Condo Alert! – CAT vs. dog and leasing

By Andrea Lusk on September 29, 2022
Posted in CAT, Condo Alert!

In the 2022 Condo Conference Issue of our newsletter, we hash out our office debate on whether Stan, the Akita, should stay or go and recap some best practices in leasing common elements.  Thanks to the CAT for this issue’s content!

We are proud to sponsor and present at this year’s Condo Conference, taking…

CondoAlert! Summer 2022

By Andrea Lusk on July 15, 2022
Posted in CAT, Condo Alert!, Legislation & Regulation

The latest issue of our newsletter reports on changes to the OHSA dealing with washroom access for workers and a CAT decision about a wooden barrier.

Enjoy the summer!

Andrea

CAT costs changes, troublesome tenants and more…

By Andrea Lusk on April 1, 2022
Posted in Case Studies, CAT, Condo Alert!

The latest issue of our newsletter, Condo Alert! Spring 2022, highlights changes to the CAT’s costs regime, discusses the Superior Court’s treatment of tenants and comments on some other interesting cases.

We hope you are dusting yourselves off after a long winter, and that spring brings warm and sunny days!

Andrea

Top 10 condo cases of 2021!

By Andrea Lusk on December 30, 2021
Posted in Case Studies, Condo Alert!, Publications & Resources

The latest issue of our newsletter, Condo Alert!, Winter 2021, features our Top 10 condo cases of 2021.  This past year saw a trend in condo decisions reinforcing the importance of mandatory mediation, more discretionary costs and in oppression applications.

This issue of Condo Alert! marks our 10th volume of GMA’s newsletter, with the…

Mandatory mediation and changes to the Act and CAT

By Andrea Lusk on September 30, 2021
Posted in Condo Alert!

Our Autumn 2021 issue of Condo Alert! reports on the continuing prevalence of the Ontario Superior Court to follow the mandate set by higher courts that matters which are subject to mediation and arbitration must proceed by that route (even when undefended) and summarizes January 2022 changes to the Act and CAT.

We hope you…

Justice for victims of terrorism and what is the cost of records?

By Andrea Lusk on June 30, 2021
Posted in Articles, CAT, Condo Alert!

Our newest issue of GMA’s newsletter Condo Alert! –  Summer 2021, contains a litigation report on Mark Arnold’s success for victims of terrorism and a case summary of the CAT’s recent treatment of fees payable for records.

We hope you enjoy the short week and thanks for reading!

Construction contract considerations (continued), “free speech” isn’t necessarily so

By Andrea Lusk on March 31, 2021
Posted in Articles, Condo Alert!

Our newest issue of our newsletter, Condo Alert! – Spring 2021, contains Part 2 of our two-part refresher on condo construction considerations (Part 1 – here) and a dismantling of the concept of “free speech”.

Thanks for reading!

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