FOLRAC RoundUP March 2017

Alberta Law Reform Institute

• Does Alberta Need a New Trustee Act? The Alberta Law Reform Institute publishes Final Report 109 - A New Trustee Act for Alberta with recommendations for implementing the Uniform Trustee Act, 2012 in Alberta.

British Columbia Law Institute

• BCLI remembers Greg Steele Q.C.
• Strata Corporations duty to repair "may include work necessary to make good or sound that which may have never been good or sound,": BC Court of Appeal

Manitoba Law Reform Commission

• Manitoba Law Reform Commission releases Final Report on Substitute Powers of Attorney. This report forms part of a series of reports entitled Creating Efficiencies in the Law, which seek to address discrete, straightforward issues that, in the Commission’s view, can be improved with relatively simple legislative amendments.