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Publications and activities from law reform agencies across Canada​

Current Law Reform Projects Across Canada

1/24/2018

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ALBERTA LAW REFORM INSTITUTE
  • Competence and Communication in the Alberta Evidence Act
  • Informal Public Appeals
  • Non-profit Corporations
  • Property Division for Cohabitants
  • Inter-provincial Recognition of Substitute Decision-making Documents
  • Uniform International Commercial Arbitration
BRITISH COLUMBIA LAW INSTITUTE
  • Financing Litigation Legal Research Project
  • Builders Lien Reform Project
  • Employment Standards Act Reform Project
  • Uniform Vital Statistics Act Project
  • Strata Property Law – Phase Two
MANITOBA LAW REFORM COMMISSION
  • Access to Courts and Court Processes: Small Estates
  • Construction Law
  • Creating Efficiencies in the Law
LAW COMMISSION OF ONTARIO
  • Class Actions: Objectives, Experiences and Reforms​
  • Defamation Law in the Internet Age
  • Improving the Last Stages of Life
  • Legal Capacity, Decision-making and Guardianship
​LAW REFORM COMMISSION OF NOVA SCOTIA
  • Division of Family Property
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FOLRAC Roundup - December 2017

12/19/2017

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BRITISH COLUMBIA LAW INSTITUTE
  • The Financing Litigation Series: Legal Expense Insurance
  • Strata-property Law: 2017 in Review
ALBERTA LAW REFORM INSTITUTE
  • ALRI publishes Report for Discussion 32 - Inter-provincial Recognition of Substitute Decision-making Documents
  • ALRI Celebrates 50 years of Law Reform
LAW REFORM COMMISSION OF NOVA SCOTIA
  • The Commission Consults on How a Person's Property Should be Divided When They Die Without a Will
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FOLRAC Roundup - November 2017

11/20/2017

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BRITISH COLUMBIA LAW INSTITUTE
  • The Financing Litigation Series: Alternative Fee Arrangements
ALBERTA LAW REFORM INSTITUTE
  • ALRI publishes Report for Discussion 31 - Property Division: Living Together Before Marriage. Get the report here
  • ALRI launches surveys on property division for common-law couples 
LAW COMMISSION OF ONTARIO
  • LCO Releases Consultation Paper on Defamation Law in the Internet Age
  • LCO publishes Liaison Online: Fall/Winter 2017
LAW REFORM COMMISSION OF NOVA SCOTIA
  • The Commission consults on how a person's property should be divided when they die without a will
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FOLRAC Roundup - October 2017

10/11/2017

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BRITISH COLUMBIA LAW INSTITUTE
  • BCLI publishes a study paper on financing litigation
  • Quarterly update for the Strata Property Law Project
ALBERTA LAW REFORM INSTITUTE
  • ALRI publishes Report for Discussion 30 - Property Division for Common Law Couples and Adult Interdependent Partners
MANITOBA LAW REFORM COMMISSION
  • The Commission encourages you to provide your thoughts, comments and suggestions on their report Updating the Administration of Small Estates. Comments on this Consultation Report should reach the Commission by October 30, 2017. 
LAW COMMISSION OF ONTARIO
  • LCO launches new project: Class Actions: Objectives, Experience, and Reforms
  • LCO calls for Board of Governors applications
LAW REFORM COMMISSION OF NOVA SCOTIA
  • The Commission releases their report Division of Family Property - Final Report 2017
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FOLRAC Roundup - August 2017

8/17/2017

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BRITISH COLUMBIA LAW INSTITUTE
  • The Wills Series: Approaches to Modern Will-Making
ALBERTA LAW REFORM INSTITUTE
  • ALRI publishes it's 2016-2017 annual report
LAW REFORM COMMISSION OF SASKATCHEWAN
  • The Law Reform Commission of Saskatchewan will award $200 annually to a student from the University of Saskatchewan College of Law who submits the best paper relating to the field of law reform in Saskatchewan
LAW COMMISSION OF ONTARIO
  • The LCO’s Last Stages of Life project heads to Nova Scotia
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FOLRAC Roundup - July 2017

7/13/2017

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BRITISH COLUMBIA LAW INSTITUTE
  • A closer look at the Report on Complex Stratas—should strata corporations be allowed to allocate expenses paid for out of the contingency reserve fund to types?
ALBERTA LAW REFORM INSTITUTE
  • ALRI Welcomes Professor Jennifer Koshan to its Board
LAW COMMISSION OF ONTARIO
  • The LCO’s Legal Capacity, Decision-making and Guardianship project is in the news!
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FOLRAC Roundup - June 2017

6/20/2017

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British Columbia Law Institute
  • BCLI calls for reforms to strata sections, types, and phases

Law Reform Commission of Saskatchewan
  • The Law Reform Commission of Saskatchewan revises the 2007 Handbook on Professional Discipline Procedure​

Law Commission of Ontario
  • LCO Releases Discussion Paper on Improving the Last Stages of Life
  • LCO receives approval for Strategic Plan and is renewed for a third term
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FOLRAC Roundup - May 2017

5/1/2017

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Alberta Law Reform Institute
  • ALRI recommends abolition of perpetuities law In Alberta
  • ALRI proposes a new Trustee Act for Alberta

British Columbia Law Institute
  • BCLI Issues 4th Edition of Questions and Answers About Pension Division on the Breakdown of a Relationship in British Columbia
  • Completing complex-stratas consultation, making progress on governance issues highlights for latest quarter of Strata Property Law Project

Law Reform Commission of Saskatchewan
  • LRCS publishes its final report on the Intestate Succession Act
  • Final Report published on the Homesteads Act

Manitoba Law Reform Commission
  • Manitoba Law Reform Commission releases Final Report on Substitute Powers of Attorney

Law Commission of Ontario
  • The LCO has released its Final Report on Legal Capacity, Decision-making and Guardianship


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FOLRAC RoundUP March 2017

3/1/2017

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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.
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FOLRAC ROundUP - January 2017

1/17/2017

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See the latest law reform developments from members of the Federation of Law Reform Agencies of Canada.

British Columbia Law Institute
  • BCLI's 20th Anniversary

Manitoba Law Reform Commission
  • Improving the small claims system

Law Commission of Ontario
  • LCO Board of Governors approves five new projects to be undertaken as resources permit
  • Release of two commissioned research papers for Last Stages of Life Project
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    • John Burchill
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    • Law Commission of Canada
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