Program Chair
Duncan Boswell
Gowling WLG
Real Estate Litigation: What’s Hot, What’s New, What’s Next
Explore foundational law, current cases, emerging trends and litigation strategies across a broad range of real estate issues, helping you identify risks, strengthen your advocacy and better advise clients.
Real estate litigation is evolving rapidly, driven by shifting market conditions, new development challenges, regulatory scrutiny and changing client expectations. This intensive one-day program is designed for litigators, real estate lawyers, in-house counsel and other professionals who need a practical update on the foundations as well as latest developments across a broad range of property disputes. Led by experienced practitioners and industry experts, Osgoode Professional Development brings together timely legal analysis, strategic insights and practical guidance you can immediately apply to your practice. Whether you advise individuals, businesses, developers, lenders, landlords, or municipalities, you’ll leave better equipped to navigate today’s most pressing real estate disputes.
Can’t Make the Date? Registration includes 120-day unlimited, online access to the recorded program.
What You’ll Learn
How to identify and assess the most common real estate disputes, including failed transactions, title and ownership claims, boundary disputes, easements and misrepresentation.
How to handle high-conflict neighbour disputes, including nuisance, trespass and other recurring property-related claims.
How to navigate condominium litigation, including disputes involving condo corporations, unit owners, boards, developers and property managers.
How to select the right remedy for a real estate dispute, including damages, specific performance, injunctions, rescission, rectification, constructive trusts and CPLs.
How to manage commercial leasing disputes, including defaults, termination, relief from forfeiture, renewals, rent disputes and lease interpretation.
How to address disputes arising from development projects and failed commercial real estate transactions, including conflicts among developers, investors, landowners and joint-venture partners.
How to build and execute an effective litigation strategy, from selecting claims, parties and remedies to obtaining urgent relief, developing evidence and working with experts.
How to move a real estate dispute efficiently toward settlement or trial, while avoiding common strategic and procedural mistakes.
Who Should Attend
Civil Litigators
Real Estate Lawyers
Developers
Municipal and Land-Use Lawyers
Environmental Lawyers
Paralegals and law clerks in litigation and real estate law
Professionals in the Real Estate industry
Construction Lawyers
Faculty
Program Chair
Duncan Boswell
Gowling WLG
Susan Morgan
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
“All speakers were good and gave great presentations.”
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OsgoodePD is an accredited provider with the LSO, the Law Society of BC and NY CLE Board. Select your location to view the eligible hours you may claim.
| Substantive | 4h 30m |
|---|---|
| Professionalism | 1h |
| Total | 5h 30m |
| Substantive | 4h 30m |
|---|---|
| Professionalism | 1h |
| Total | 5h 30m |
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