Advising the Charitable Client: Pro-Active Legal Risk Management Advice

Presented by Terrance S. Carter during the Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lecture Series 1996 ESTATES: Planning, Administration and Litigaiton. November 28, 1996 at Toronto, Ontario.

To collectively describe charities in Canada as “big business” may be perceived by some as an oxymoron, to others it is a self-evident truth. The Canadian Centre for Philanthropy reported that in 1993 there were over 71,000 charities registered with Revenue Canada which had combined revenues of $86.5 billion with more that 1.3 million employees representing approximately 13 percent of the gross domestic product of Canada.

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To Be or Not To Be: Incorporation of Autonomous Churches in Ontario

In an ever increasing litigious society where even a corner convenience store generally carries on business through a corporation, a legitimate question that is being more frequently asked at church boards and congregational annual meetings is whether or not a church should incorporate and if so what is the procedure that needs to be followed to complete the incorporation process. This book has been prepared to answer these questions.

To Be or Not To Be: Incorporation of Autonomous Churches in Ontario