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In what is believed to be the largest award of its kind, a Toronto millionaire has been ordered to pay his ex-wife a $1-million lump sum for prospective spousal support.

Decision on usage-based billing sparks outrage

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Counsel told The Lawyers

TECHNOLOGY

Weekly Ontario Superior Court S TEPHANE GROLEAU/PUR — L’AGENCE INTERAC TIVE Justice George Czutrin’s recently The Quebec government is under fire for not addressing spending inefficiencies that were identified by the auditor released 192-page judgment in general over a year ago. For example, $11-million was spent to renovate the above courthouse in Cowansville, Que., Pollitt v. Pollitt also offers guid- despite its 14 per cent usage rate. See story on page 3 ance to family law practitioners on a host of issues around child and spousal support.

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capital losses and pre-tax cor- 1,000 lawyers online April 4. OS® X 10.411 (Tiger®) or newer Lawyers on the go porate income under the Child The sessions are free to par- Macintosh operating system. Support Guidelines; how to ticipants who sign up using their The four-member panels will treat the payer’s post-settlement THOMAS CLARIDGE TORONTO computers and are open to legal be chosen from among Toronto income increases for spousal professionals, law students, the candidates Monica Goyal, Mitch support purposes; and how to The Law Society of Upper media and others. Kowalski and MANAGING deal with child support when Canada (LSUC) 2011 bencher The first two sessions will see C h r i s t o p h e r the university-age child in ques- election has something new for the panelists “dialogue on elec- Bredt, Ottawa’s tion is independently wealthy. the 40,000-plus eligible vot- tion issues,” while the topic for Susan Richer

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Cultivating legal talent

“I think it covers the child and ers — an experiment dubbed the the third will be the “future of law and Dorette spousal landscape,” remarked “virtual town hall meeting.” and articling.” The first session Pollard, Peter-Harold Niman of Toronto’s Using web-based software will be moderated by Professor b o r o u g h ’ s Niman Zemans Gelgoot. developed for multi-office busi- Adam Dodek of the University of David McRob-

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every kind of support issue that to 1,000 lawyers tuning in on one and the other two by representa- Bredt ton’s Katherine
can arise, including retroactive or more of three sessions, each of tives of the legal media. Henshell and
child support; high-income which will feature a theme and a An invitation to LSUC mem- Manitoulin’s Susan Hare. Hare
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child support [and] the table panel of four bencher candidates bers to “listen in on a virtual and Bredt are incumbents and
amount; non-recurring income; and a moderator. town hall meeting” warns that Richer was a candidate in 2007.
imputing corporate income;the The four panelists will be space will be limited and to Bredt told The Lawyers
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principles of spousal support in selected from a pool of eight “reserve your Webinar seat now. Weekly he didn’t know a lot
high-income cases; [and] the that includes two incumbents, Atestofthesoftwarelastweek about how the sessions would
See Pollitt Page 8 three Toronto lawyers and five indicated that those wishing to See Virtual Page 2

“It really deals with just about nesses, the experiment will see up Ottawa’s Common Law Section, ert, Burling-

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