This Week in Family Law Newsletter

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Break Out Your Vexatious Litigant Party Hats On August 2, 2024, the Ontario Government introduced Ontario Regulation 322/24, meant to rework the vexatious litigant regime in Ontario. The regulation revises the Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194 and creates a comprehensive regime for addressing frivolous, vexatious, or abusive litigants — the kinds of litigants that are all-too prevalent in family law courts (to say nothing of Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument litigants: Meads v. Meads, 2012 CarswellAlta 1607 (Q.B.)).

Arbitrators . . . They Don't Get No Respect — Rodney Dangerfield

Giacchetta v. Beck, 2024 CarswellAlta 2038 (K.B.) — Ho J.

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