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A Study Of The Costs Of Legal Services In Personal Injury Litigation In Ontario: Final Report, Allan C. Hutchinson

Commissioned Reports, Studies and Public Policy Documents

Contingency Fee Agreements (CFAs) are now a fixed feature of the Ontario litigation landscape. However, little research or study has been done on exactly how they operate in practice, whether they advance the objectives that they were intended to achieve, and whether litigants are best served by the current arrangements. In this study, I intend to make a preliminary start to that research, set out some tentative criticisms of the CFA system as it currently operates, and, where appropriate, suggest preliminary proposals for change.

It should be said at the outset that my efforts to obtain real and serious data …

Improving Employment Standards And Their Enforcement In Ontario: A Research Brief Addressing Options Identified In The Interim Report Of The Changing Workplaces Review, Leah F. Vosko, John Grundy, Eric Tucker, Andrea M. Noack, Alan Hall, Mark P. Thomas, Rebecca Casey, Kiran Mirchandani, Guliz Akkaymak

Commissioned Reports, Studies and Public Policy Documents

The quality of employment available to Ontarians is a growing concern among legislators, policymakers, and the general public alike. There is widespread recognition that precarious employment and the challenges posed by the associated realignment of risks, costs and power relations between employees and employers require improvements to employees’ legislative protection. Ontario’s Changing Workplaces Review (CWR) affords us an opportunity to take stock of important changes taking place the province’s labour market. As the Terms of Reference introduced at the outset of the CWR note, “far too many workers are experiencing greater precariousness” in employment in Ontario today than in the …

Comment Letter To The Sec In Response To Its Concept Release On Business And Financial Disclosure Required By Regulation S-K, 81 F.R. 23915, Cynthia Williams

Commissioned Reports, Studies and Public Policy Documents

The Center for International Environmental Law, Center of Concern, Environmental Investigation Agency-US, Foundation Earth, Friends of the Earth-United States, Greenpeace USA, Rainforest Action Network, and the Sierra Club welcome the opportunity to comment on the recent Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) concept release on “Business and Financial Disclosure Required by Regulation S-K” (“Concept Release”).1In this Comment Letter, we address five issues:(1) the growth of socially-responsible investment (SRI)(Concept Release questions 15, 17); (2) the definition of materiality (question6); (3) the materiality of sustainability information (questions216-23); and (4) the limits of voluntary disclosure initiatives to meet the information needs of today’s investors, …

Reducing Vulnerability To Human Trafficking: An Experimental Intervention Using Anti-Trafficking Campaigns To Change Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, And Practices In Nepal, Margaret Boittin, Dan Archer, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

Commissioned Reports, Studies and Public Policy Documents

Prepared for USAID, Humanity United, the US Department of Labor, and Terre des Hommes, March 2016.