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 […]
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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; […]
In Rae v. Collins, the Ontario Court of Justice considered the rarely invoked detention powers in Ontario’s Health Protection and Promotion Act (“HPPA”) in the context of a man infected with tuberculosis. In this unreported case, Mercedes Perez successfully argued that the quarantine detention powers should be subject to a minimally intrusive standard; that is, […]
Alex Procope spoke at the 21st Annual Estates and Trusts Summit (day 2) on October 11, 2018 on the ethical considerations for lawyers advising on the use of a power of attorney. This program presented annually by the Law Society of Ontario focused on topics including: Will interpretation Estate planning for the disabled and complex […]
PBP Lawyers are celebrating our second anniversary! Thank you to our clients and colleagues for the continued support. Over the last year we have successfully represented clients at the Supreme Court of Canada, at all levels of Ontario courts and at various administrative tribunals. We have also been perhaps overly-active contributors to legal education programs […]
Mercedes Perez was invited to speak at an Osgoode Hall Law School conference titled “Fairness, Mental Health and Administrative Process” held on September 19, 2018. Mercedes, along with Lucy Costa (Deputy Executive Director of the Empowerment Council) and Brendon Pooran (Pooran Law), spoke on the “Perspectives and Voices” panel. Mercedes’ talk focused on fairness issues […]
Mercedes represented a client in a complex New Brunswick Review Board hearing this week. Media coverage from the CBC is available here and at this link. […]
Alex Procope has been elected to the executives of the Canadian Bar Association / Ontario Bar Association Elder Law and Trusts and Estates Law sections as a member-at-large for the 2018-2019 term. These sections organize professional development programming and networking events, prepare submissions and analysis of new and evolving areas of law and honour leaders in these […]