PBP Lawyers are celebrating our third anniversary! This milestone provides an opportunity to reflect on the core values of providing excellent service to our our clients in everything from a one-time consultation to litigation and appeals. We continue to be grateful for the continued support and look forward to another successful year. Check out what […]
On September 10, 2019, Alex Procope presented a case law update alongside Laroux Peoples and Ambie Edgar-Chana. The Practice Gems: Estates Administration 2019 professional development program was presented by the Law Society of Ontario. It covered topics including tax laws, deciphering a will or trust, duties of an estate trustee in the midst of a dependent’s support […]
Mercedes Perez was invited to present as guest faculty at the Health Justice Program’s Tuesday lecture series. The Health Justice Program is a novel primary care partnership in Canada between the St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team and several local/ specialty legal aid clinics in downtown Toronto. The lecture series was certified for educational […]
Alex has been re-elected to the executives of the Ontario Bar Association‘s Elder Law and Trusts and Estates Law sections as a member-at-large for the 2019-2020 term. These sections organize professional development programming and networking events, prepare submissions and analysis of new and evolving areas of law among other things. Congratulations to all of the other volunteers […]
Alex Procope is now a contract lecturer in the Gerontology program at Ryerson University’s G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education. He will be instructing an Elder Law course he designed over the winter entitled: Aging: Ethical and Legal Considerations. The following description is from the course outline: The course provides a framework for managing […]
Mercedes Perez successfully represented a patient detained at the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care in a hospital transfer appeal. The patient had been civilly detained at Waypoint’s maximum secure unit pursuant to provisions in Ontario’s Mental Health Act. He applied to the Consent and Capacity Board for a transfer to the North Bay Regional […]
Alex Procope will be speaking as a guest instructor in the University of Toronto Faculty of Social Work course: Special Issues in Gerontological Social Work taught by Laura Tamblyn Watts on March 25, 2019. Alex will be speaking about Mental Health and Aging, including detentions and assessments under Ontario’s Mental Health Act, hearings at the […]
In an application filed with the Human Rights Tribunal on International Women’s Day, Alex Petit-Thorne sheds light on how CUPE deals with sexual harassment internally. Kelley Bryan is representing Ms. Petit-Thorne in the claim. Ms. Petit-Thorne, a union member, made a sexual harassment complaint in November 2018 against Devin Lefebvre, CUPE Local 3903’s chairperson. Her […]
Mercedes Perez, appointed by the Superior Court of Justice as amicus curiae, successfully raised procedural fairness issues in an appeal from a treatment incapacity decision of the Consent and Capacity Board. The decision has been published in the March 15, 2019 edition of the Ontario Reports. The appellant suffered from schizaffective disorder and had been […]
Alex Procope and Jane Meadus are again co-directing the Osgoode Certificate in Elder Law Program 2019 this winter. This Certificate Program is an intensive 5-day series presented by Osgoode Professional Development. The faculty includes experts in law, health and policy. This multi-disciplinary perspective gives graduates of the program a solid understanding of: capacity law; powers of attorney; […]