A Toronto real estate lawyer was successful recently in forcing the Toronto-Dominion Bank to release funds held in his trust account after the bank wrongly purported to freeze his account to recoup its loss from a fraudulent cheque that had been drawn by another of the lawyer's clients and deposited into the trust account. [more] Full article

CONTRIBUTORS: MICHAEL OSBORNE, JENNIFER CANTWELL, KYLE PETERSON, KENNETH DEKKER, PAUL EMERSON AND STEPHANIE GABOR UNFAIR INTERCORPORATE TRANSACTIONS OPPRESSED FORD CANADA SHAREHOLDERS An unfair intercorporate transfer price system in place between ... [more] Full article

Mediators breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Ontario Divisional Court upheld the confidentiality of mediations by refusing to compel a mediator to testify about communications between parties at a mediation. Rudd v. Trossacs Investments [more] Full article

A discharged employee cannot recover damages for loss of disability benefits in addition to damages for wrongful dismissal, the Ontario Court of Appeal held in a decision issued on January 10, 2006. Awarding such damages would constitute double recovery, the court said. [more] Full article