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Company News: Blog
In praise of naked judges
03 September 2010
Like everybody else in the legal community I'm following with prurient interest the trials and tribulations of embattled associate chief justice of Manitoba, Lori Douglas, who was ousted by a disgruntled client of her husband's law firm. Nude photographs of her were posted, apparently without...
03 September 2010
Like everybody else in the legal community I'm following with prurient interest the trials and tribulations of embattled associate chief justice of Manitoba, Lori Douglas, who was ousted by a disgruntled client of her husband's law firm. Nude photographs of her were posted, apparently without...
- 07 August 2010 It's a dog's life
- 12 July 2010 Governor General Designate with legal background
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| Written by Christopher Green |
| Friday, 12 March 2010 10:13 |
 The glow of the Olympics hasn’t quite faded, as Hal gets set to pipe in another round of curling greats, this time for the Paralympics 2010. Yes, he’s getting time off for good behaviour. Otherwise things are gradually getting back to normal around here. The real estate market held its breath for the entire month of February, but came back with a vengeance as soon as the Olympic torch was snuffed. We are shaping up for one of our busiest months in quite a while. It’s hard to put one's finger on exactly why the real estate market is so hot. We are seeing a few first-time home buyers, but many of the new files seen to be new construction, with buyers rushing to beat the onslaught of the dreaded HST. Some of our commercial clients are re-financing to lock in low interest rates, in expectation that rates will rise over the coming year. Robust real estate sales however are not really a sign of a strong economy, as we are seeing a lot of distress sales, and court ordered foreclosure sales. Our foreclosure files all went dark during the Olympics, since they were all initiated out of the Vancouver registry (which, as you’ll remember, was locked down behind the Olympic security cordon), but they all came back to life in March. We were surprised to hear from our regular process server that they were backlogged, because of the large volume of foreclosure material they had to serve. Sadly, it is also true that more people die this time of year, as evidenced by a spike in our estate and probate files. |
