March 3, 2013
Financial Abuse of Seniors
Overview On March 26, 2013, CCEL Senior Fellow Laura Tamblyn Watts participated in a National Meeting on Financial Abuse organized by the International Federation on Ageing and held in Toronto. The full day meeting included stakeholders from the financial sector, government officials, and individuals and organizations with expertise in the Read more…
October 1, 2011
Project on Potential Undue Influence: Recommended Practices for Wills Practitioners (2011)
This project developed a set of recommended practices for will drafters to follow to ensure that the wills they prepare represent the genuine independent wishes of their clients and are insulated against challenge on the basis of undue influence. The impetus for this project was the enactment of section 52 Read more…
October 1, 2010
Probate Rules
Probate Rules concerns reform of the rules of court relating to probate and administration of estates in British Columbia. This project was a necessary sequel to the Succession Law Reform Project which BCLI completed in 2006. It was intended in part to implement procedural recommendations made in the Final Report Read more…
December 12, 2008
Consideration of Testamentary Capacity in the British Columbia Succession Law Reform Project
This short paper by Gregory G. Blue describes an interdisciplinary debate on possible reform and statutory codification of the classic principles surrounding testamentary capacity as enunciated in Banks v Goodfellow. The debate in question took place in the course of the British Columbia Law Institute’s Succession Law Reform Project, an Read more…
August 22, 2008
Enduring Powers of Attorney
Working as part of the Western Canada Law Reform Agencies consortium, CCEL participated in the law reform project that led to the publication of Enduring Powers of Attorney: Areas for Reform. The final report was released in July 2008 and can be accessed on the Alberta Law Reform Institute’s website.