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Monthly Archives: April 2010
FAMILY LAW: From case conference to motions to settlement conference to trial management conference to trial and finally to appeal!
Date: April 29, 2010 | Author: Jeff Levy, HBSc, MBA, CFA, AMP, JD
After a case conference, a litigant usually seeks an order on motion, which requires two documents: a notice of motion and an affidavit. The affidavit is to contain as much as possible information only within the personal knowledge of the person swearing that affidavit. It can contain information that the person learned from someone else, ...
REAL ESTATE: Depending on the age and type of property, the following off title searches may be necessary!
Date: April 28, 2010 | Author: Jeff Levy, HBSc, MBA, CFA, AMP, JD
Occupancy permits: For a newly built or renovated dwelling or an extension or addition thereto, it is necessary to find out whether or not the local municipality has issued an occupancy permit under its building by-law or property standards by-law or under the Ontario Building Code. However, there could be several reasons why an occupancy permit ...
REAL ESTATE: The necessary off title searches when buying a property!
Date: April 27, 2010 | Author: Jeff Levy, HBSc, MBA, CFA, AMP, JD
There are other searches besides a title search, that are necessary to assure title and enhance the marketability of a property. The purpose of these searches are to determine if there are any statutory liens or orders that may affect a property, and if a property complies with municipal by-laws or other statutory requirements. Depending ...
POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR PROPERTY
Date: April 24, 2010 | Author: Jeff Levy, HBSc, MBA, CFA, AMP, JD
The common law of agency, broadly speaking, constitute the powers of attorney. This relationship of an agency is established when one person, principal, donor or grantor authorizes another person, agent or attorney to act as his or her agent. An agency relationship used to terminate in common law, when the donor became mentally incapable. As this common ...
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Globalization and success will follow once the gender, racial and minority profiling is eliminated!
Date: April 22, 2010 | Author: Jeff Levy, HBSc, MBA, CFA, AMP, JD
For long the corporate ladder has been an issue of survival of the corporate fittest, highly dominated by the white male. So much so, that the white male is often thought of as the underlying decision maker, the one who makes the final corporate changes along with the one who delegates and sets the management ...
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Even the best CEOs need to remember that its the path they pave for the future that will provide them with immortality, not their current presence!
Date: April 22, 2010 | Author: Jeff Levy, HBSc, MBA, CFA, AMP, JD
How does one win an Oscar? Is George Washington considered so highly as an individual because he was the first American president or because he now has the capital of the U.S named after him? How about Abraham Lincoln, not the first American president but just as renowned. Is it because he was the first ...
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Transactional versus transformational leadership, the charismatic leader.
Date: April 22, 2010 | Author: Jeff Levy, HBSc, MBA, CFA, AMP, JD
In its earliest stages the strongest influence on a “movement” is likely to be the charismatic leader who personally symbolizes its values. At some point intellectuals play a leadership role by contributing to the developing ideology of the movement, be it corporate strategy or game planning. And if a movement endures and grows for any ...
