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Access to Knowledge, Access to Justice

Manitoba Law Foundation

The Manitoba Law Foundation, last December, made a project grant to Manitoba Law Library, Inc. (MLL) to fund the development and implementation of an online library catalog for MLL’s collection of materials held in the Great Library at the Law Courts Complex in Winnipeg. We are pleased to see that the catalog has now gone …

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Report on Law Foundation Granting (July 2018)

Manitoba Law Foundation

The Manitoba Law Foundation’s Board of Directors recently met to allocate and approve the Foundation’s statutory and discretionary grants for the 2018/2019 fiscal year. The Legal Profession Act provides in s.90(1) that the Foundation allocate specific portions of interest on lawyers’ trust accounts received in the previous fiscal year to The Legal Aid Society of …

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Marking National Volunteer Week (April 2018)

Manitoba Law Foundation

As I write this, it is National Volunteer Week in Canada. According to Volunteer Canada’s website: National Volunteer Week (NVW) is a time to celebrate and thank Canada’s 12.7 million volunteers…. Volunteering is often seen as a selfless act; a person gives their time, skills, experience, and passion to help others, without expecting anything in …

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What About Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts?

Manitoba Law Foundation

I confess that I never thought about this when I was practicing, probably because the firms I worked with already had trust accounts in place when I started. I was aware, however, that the only way clients themselves could receive interest on their funds held in the firm trust account was if those funds were …

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Why it Matters Where You Hold Your Trust Account

Manitoba Law Foundation

Changes to The Law Society of Manitoba’s Rules on trust accounts resulted in a flurry of new trust account openings as lawyers and law firms practising in the area of real property transactions set up the restricted accounts required for the new eRegistration system at Teranet Manitoba (aka The Property Registry.) As the Letters of …