Angela Casey

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Angela is a partner at de VRIES LITIGATION LLP. Angela has extensive experience with capacity litigation, power of attorney disputes, dependant support claims, will challenges, and will interpretation proceedings. She routinely acts as agent lawyer for the Children’s Lawyer in contentious litigation. She also has extensive experience litigating commercial and shareholder disputes, as well as fraud actions. She has appeared before the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Divisional Court, and several administrative tribunals.

Passing of Accounts: A Math Problem Explained

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In a recent blog post entitled “Things Lawyers Know,” I laughed out loud when I read #13:  “Lawyers are word, not number people.  If their fee went up 10%, few lawyers would know how much extra they received.” Math often comes into play in an estates litigation practice, particularly in the context of a contested passing of accounts.  In the recently released endorsement,In the Estate of Norma Baer, the Court….

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Estate Planning, Home-Right

What the Heck is the Deemed Undertaking Rule?

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One of the best ways for a litigator to learn is to sit in open court watching other litigators suffer through embarrassing court room experiences.  In one of my early days appearing on the Estates List, I had one such experience, and the litigator’s lesson that day centred on the often-misunderstood deemed undertaking rule. On consent, the parties sought an Order Giving Directions.  The judge carefully read through all of….

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Estate Planning, Home-Left, Home-Right

Limitation Period Precludes Motion to set Aside Releases

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In the usual litigation battle, a release operates as a “shield” in the sense that if a beneficiary sues an estate trustee, the estate trustee can use the release as a defence.  In Re: Sheard, the estate trustees were able to use signed releases to preclude them from having to pass their accounts for the period covered by releases. In Re: Sheard, the estate trustees made two interim distributions.  Each….

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