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Monthly Archives: December 2025
3 Resultsde VRIES LITIGATION’S Top 5 Blog Posts of 2025
The lawyers and articling students at de VRIES LITIGATION write two articles each month. The articles are shared by email and on social media. In 2025, these were the top five articles from the de VRIES LITIGATION blog. Solicitor-Client Privilege and Beyond – de Vries Litigation: What happens when a client dies? What becomes of…read more
Substantial Compliance
On January 1, 2022, Ontario moved away from being a strict compliance jurisdiction and towards a substantial compliance jurisdiction. This trend follows suit of many of Ontario’s provincial neighbours, such as British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba, among others. The change results from the introduction of section 21.1 of the Succession Law Reform Act (“SLRA”), which…read more
Reasons for Exercising Discretion
In a discretionary trust, the trustees are given complete discretion concerning distributions of income or capital. The trustees may have the discretion to choose the timing of the distributions, as well as the recipients, amounts, and conditions of the distributions. The trustees may also have the discretion to exclude any one or more of the…read more