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Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, 2010 ONSC 5490 (22 October 2010). Ruling: Appeal dismissed. Holding; The motion judge did not err in granting summary judgment in the present case, as summary judgment motions must be granted whenever there is no genuine issue requiring a trial. Court membership; Chief Justice: Beverley McLachlin: Puisne Justices
The bank remains one of the firm's oldest clients. In 1878, Blakes was the first business in Canada to install a telephone system that provided a direct link to the offices of the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada at Osgoode Hall. In 1882, Zebulon Aiton Lash joined Blakes and began building a corporate law practice. [3]
Amidst all of these structural changes in the market, only three of the Seven Sisters underwent mergers — the aforementioned McCarthy in 1989–90, [40] Toronto's Davies Ward & Beck with Montreal's Phillips & Vineberg in 2000 [41] and Toronto's Tory & Tory with New York's Haythe & Curley in 2000 [42] [43] [44] — whilst the remainder decided to grow organically.
The UFC also went on to hire Noble Chummar, an attorney with Cassels, Brock and Blackwell, as legal representation for the UFC in Ontario. This lobbyist firm was hired by the UFC to also assist with educating members of the provincial government on the many reasons why the sport should be sanctioned and regulated. [8]
Since leaving politics, he has been a professor at York University in Toronto, a senior partner and chairman of the Toronto law firm Cassels, Brock & Blackwell LLP and has been director or member of several charitable, cultural, and environmental organizations. [45]
Walter Renison Lightfoot Blackwell (September 26, 1890 – January 21, 1957) was a Canadian architect known for his work in Peterborough, Ontario, and a number of Bank of Toronto branches across Ontario. He was the son of William Blackwell and an early partner of Eberhard Zeidler.
He was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1869, and practiced at Blake, Lash, Cassels. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1883. Cassels was appointed a judge of the Exchequer Court of Canada in 1908 (his brother Robert, as Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1875 to 1898, had been the Exchequer Court's first registrar).
During the 1937 Ontario general election Blackwell was a candidate in Toronto's Eglinton electoral district; where he came in second on election night. [4] He ran again in Eglinton, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1943 election that brought George Drew's Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario to power with a minority government.