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Welcome to the website of Ecclestone Law Professional Corporation Société Professionnelle.
As the Province of Ontario re-opens, and as the courts gradually resume in person hearings, our office is also moving toward a new normal. Our offices are still closed exept for essential in person appointments booked in advance. We will instead arrange meetings including initial consultations for new clients using internet based video-conferencing such as Zoom or Meetings. Our primary concern is the health and safety of our clients and staff. Our protocol for such meetings will be explained when the meeting is booked.
Our lawyers and staff are still working remotely and coming in to the office occasionally or as needed - but even when our office is staffed, our door will be locked. Our office is not open to the public. Only people with previously booked appointments who have not travelled outside of Canada within the last 14 days, who have no symptoms of COVID19, who have no known recent exposure to anyone who has tested positive for COVID19, who are wearing a mask or face covering will be admitted. We provide hand sanitizer and ask anyone coming to our office to use it upon arrival.
We are monitoring our faxes (613) 384-0731, our email messages (email addresses available here), and our voice mail messages remotely. We will return messages as quickly as we can.
Existing clients are asked to contact the lawyer, paralegal, or staff person with whom they are dealing by email wherever possible.
Courts are gradually resuming in person hearings, but at a much reduced capacity. New dates are being set for many matters. Tribunals are, for most cases, closed. This situation is changing from day to day. Here are links to the courts' bulletins on how they are responding to Covid-19:> Superior Court of Justice (Criminal, Civil, Estates, Family, Child Protection)
> Ontario Court of Justice (Criminal, Provincial Offences)
> Kingston Provincial Offences Court
Here are the disclaimers:
1) There is no legal advice on this web site
This site is intended to introduce you to our full
service law firm and to provide some basic legal information. Nothing
on this site is intended to be legal advice. General legal information
may or may not apply to any particular set of circumstances. For
correct answers to your legal questions, you should consult a lawyer.
2) We are not responsible for the content of
sites other than our own
Some of the links on this site point to other web sites. Although we
have been careful in selecting the sites to which we provide links, we
have no control over external web sites' contents; and we therefore
accept no responsibility for anything you may see on such sites nor any
liability for any inaccuracies contained thereon. All of our web site's
pages have our banner with our logo, name and contact information and
our main navigation bar at the top of them.
3) Nothing on this site creates a solicitor/client relationship.
There is no privilege attached to any communication through this web site unless you are already a client. This site provides legal information only. To retain us, a retainer agreement is required. We will discuss our retainer with you at our first meeting.
Updated 08 July 2020
