LINDA'S RECORD OF PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: |
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2016
- Published Eden Cooking School Demonstrators' Recipes, First Edition, Toronto, on February 29 |
2012
- Began researching and presenting on health questions |
2010-2016
- Coordinated and demonstrated at the Eden Cooking School in Toronto |
2004
- Completed and mounted information providing web page
- Commenced lecturing on "The Colour Code" summer of 2004
- Conceived and organized WEBb's BNI Adventure Afternoon networking event
- Attained accreditation as certified Vegetarian Cooking School Instructor
- Director, Religious Liberties, Kingsview Village Church |
2003
- Director, Health and Temperance Department, Kingsview Village Church
- Revision of the Do You Know publication series
- Publication of "The Power of Personal Penmanship" in the BIG BOOK
- Received BNI's Master Networker Award |
2002
- Publication of "New Home Construction" why you need a lawyer, Toronto Business Times, June 2002
- Received BNI's MVP Award [Most Valuable Player] BNI Chapter Award of Excellence |
2001
- Director, Communications Department, and Church Clerk, Kingsview Village |
2000
- Trekked Antarctica and Easter Island and conclusion of the 7 Continents, 7 Oceans, Millennium around-the-world cruise and return to Toronto and law practice reinvigorated |
1999
- Commencement of travel sabbatical on the 7 Continents, 7 Oceans, Millennium around-the-world cruise |
1998
- Offered e-mail communication with clients
- Commenced feeding the homeless, religious liberties, and nursing home visitation programme |
1997
- Established new law in civil procedure in Lochwin v. Wasserman - see Explanatory Notes on Reported Cases 9, and the listing under Business Law, Corporate & Commercial, Trials and Civil Litigation |
1996
- Mounting of law practice's first web page |
1995
- Established new law in family law in Orzeck v. Orzeck, which clarifyies the parental obligation to pay child support to or for a child over the age of majority, who was not in communication with the parent - see Explanatory Notes on Reported Cases 10, and the listing under Family Law and Civil Litigation |
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Reported Cases
Areas of Law considered in this case: - Family Law - Jurisdiction of the Provincial Court and the General Division - S. 107 of the Court of Justice Act, and s. 2(2) of the Family Law Act
Deronov v. Agathocli, [1994] O.J. No. 551
My client, the mother brought an application in the Provincial Division for an increase in child support for her high school aged daughter. The daughter was gifted musically. The daughter's father claimed that he had no money to pay increased child support since he had a wife, and other children to support.
It was discovered that the father had assets out of the country, and had made rrsp contributions, and investments in the wife's name.
The wife then brought an application to seize and freeze some of the father's assets, as security for child support. Some of these assets were out of the country, and some other assets were registered in the name of the father's new wife.
The jurisdiction of the two levels of court in which family law matters can be brought is the reason that there were two separate applications.
Since it made sense to have all matters decided in one court, at one time, I brought a motion on behalf of the wife in the General Division, to have the Provincial Division application transferred to the General Division.
The father's lawyer objected, saying the relevant legislation required that the motion should have been brought in the Provincial Division. Madam Justice Epstein agreed with the father's lawyer, and the General Division motion was dismissed. There had been no judicial interpretation of this aspect of section 2(2) of the Family Law Act to this point in time.
Needless to say the father was asked to consent to an order in the Provincial Division transferring that application to the General Division. He refused.
An order was obtained from the Provincial Division, and the proceedings continued, to a successful conclusion, in my client's favour.
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