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  • Are the Rules of Civil Procedure at times to rigidly applied?
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• Jasmine Sweatman has been elected as a member of the Elder Law section of the Canadian Bar Association for the 2011-2012 term. She also serves on the Conference education committee for the Canadian Associate of Gift Planners' April 2012 conference. MORE>>
• Sophia Dunkley of Sweatman Law has been elected to the position of Secretary of the Charities and Not-For-Profit executive of the Ontario Bar Association for the 2011-2012 and elected a member of the National Charities and Not-for-Profit executive of the Canadian Bar Association for the 2011-2013 term. MORE>>
• Jennifer Stebbing of Sweatman Law has been elected a member of the executive of the Trusts and Estates section of the Ontario Bar Associate for the 2011-2012 term. MORE>>