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Vancouver, 20 January 2012 — The British Columbia Law Institute (BCLI) has just published Recommended Practices for Wills Practitioners Relating to Potential Undue Influence: A Guide. This guidebook helps lawyers and notaries recognize “red flags” suggesting undue influence when receiving instructions to prepare a will, and in preventing later challenges that could lead to a will being invalidated.
There are checklists, a flowchart...
read moreMinistry of Finance launches second phase of Society Act review consultation
The Ministry of Finance has issued a discussion paper (PDF) with specific proposals for reform of British Columbia's framework legislation for not-for-profit corporations, the Society Act. The...
read moreNew two-year project to consider reforms to judge-made rules governing when a person is determined to have the mental capacity to carry out a transaction or enter into a relationship
Mental disability, illness, or impairment does not, in and of itself, leave a person incapable under the law to carry out transactions, enter into relationships, or manage his or her affairs. The law is concerned with the degree of a person's mental disability, illness, or impairment. If it exceeds in a degree a legal threshold then that person will be considered incapable in the...
