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Episode Two: Identifying the Signs of Vulnerability
Read more: Episode Two: Identifying the Signs of VulnerabilityWelcome back to another episode of Capacity Conversations! Today, we are pleased to welcome the Capacity Clinic’s medical director Dr. Richard Shulman and our chief legal officer Jasmine Sweatman to the podcast! We are thrilled to have them both here to discuss a very important topic: identifying the signs of vulnerability. Richard is a geriatric…
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Episode One: What is The Capacity Clinic?
Read more: Episode One: What is The Capacity Clinic?Welcome to the very first episode of Capacity Conversations: Your Thoughts or Mine?. We are thrilled to be launching our podcast where we’ll be talking about capacity and decision-making in Canada. Today, we are joined by the Capacity Clinic’s CEO, Nathan Spaling. Nathan is a practicing lawyer with a long-standing interest in the needs of…
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Effective Use of Hot Tubbing in Estate Litigation
Read more: Effective Use of Hot Tubbing in Estate Litigationhttps://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2020/2020onsc7046/2020onsc7046.html?autocompleteStr=kates%20es&autocompletePos=1 In estate litigation, the financial cost incurred by both parties can be significant, especially when the opposing parties’ expert witnesses disagree on their opinions. One way to reduce this scope of the dispute when decision-making capacity is at issue, is to select expert witnesses to participate in the hot tubbing process in order to…