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Welcome to the home of our blogging lawyers. Here you will find information and insights on legal trends that we hope will bring clarity to your complex business and personal challenges.

Field Law is a 100+ year old business law firm serving western and northern Canada from offices in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The Firm offers a comprehensive range of legal and complementary services to businesses, institutions, governments and other organizations. Additionally the Firm provides private services to individuals including estate planning services and real estate transactions. One of Field Law’s core values is giving back to the communities it serves and is active in many community and charitable initiatives. The Field Law Community Fund Program was launched in 2013 and has so far provided $475,000 in funding to 82 local projects.

 

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Cutting the Red Tape? New Condo Regulations are on Hold for Further Review

On July 1, 2019, the Government of Alberta announced that the revised Regulations and amendments to the Condominium Property Act that were scheduled to come into force that day have been placed on hold until January 1, 2020. In a recent statement, Nate Glubish, Minister of Service of Alberta, stated that the delay was necessary […] Read More
July 24, 2019
Real Estate

Fairness is in the Eye of the Beholder in the Tender Process

The tender process has long been a staple of the construction industry. Variations of that process, via requests for proposals (“RFPs”), requests for quotations (“RFQs”) or other similar processes have also been developed, with varying levels of adherence to the traditional tender model. These models allow someone putting a project out for bid to include […] Read More
July 24, 2019
Planning

Tax Incentive Amendments to the Municipal Government Act

New revisions to the Municipal Government Act (the “MGA“) aim to grant municipalities the ability to offer tax incentives to encourage business investment. Bill 7 the Municipal Government (Property Tax Incentives) Amendment Act (“Bill 7“) received Royal Assent and came into force on June 28, 2019. At its core, Bill 7 aims to help local […] Read More
July 3, 2019
Planning

Rectification: Where Are We Now?

This article was first published by the Canadian Tax Foundation in (2019) 9:2 Canadian Tax Focus. In the two years since the SCC narrowed the availability of rectification in Fairmont Hotels ( 2016 SCC 56), provincial superior and appellate courts have attempted to interpret the new limits placed on rectification. The post-Fairmont jurisprudence has largely been determined by the […] Read More
June 11, 2019
Tax

What’s Old is New Again – Municipal Reserve Lands in Alberta Cannot be Liened

Builders’ liens are a useful tool for unpaid contractors and subcontractors on a construction project. They provide a right to make a claim and register an instrument against title to a parcel of land, with the ultimate remedy being a sale of those lands in default of payment of the lien. However, not all lands […] Read More
May 27, 2019
Litigation

Estate Planning for Privacy

The Supreme Court of Canada may soon be considering the intersection between estate and privacy law as well as the public policy behind the “open court” principle.  The personal representatives of the estates of murdered Canadian billionaires, Barry and Honey Sherman, have indicated they intend to appeal a very recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision […] Read More
May 23, 2019
Wills + Estates + Trusts