Background
Letalik, Norman G. was born on February 6, 1955 in Windsor, Ontario.
Letalik, Norman G. was born on February 6, 1955 in Windsor, Ontario.
Kent State University (Master of Arts, 1976). Dalhousie University (Bachelor of Laws, 1979. Master of Laws, 1980).
Worked at Borden & Elliot (Toronto, Ontario) specializing in General Practice. Banking and Finance; Corporate and Commercial including Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions, Arrangements and Reorganizations, Business Organizations and Competition and Marketing Law. International Business Law (including Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement matters).
Mining and Natural Resources.
Environmental Law; Expropriate Law. Municipal Law; Labour and Employment Law including Pensions and Employee Benefits.
Personal Services including Family Law, Wills, Estates and Trusts. Real Estate Financing, Development and Leasing.
Taxation (including Customs, Anti-dumping, Income and Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes).
Trial and Appellate Litigation before courts and administrative tribunals including Commercial, Criminal, Real Estate, Hospital and Medical Malpractice and Insurance Litigation (including Aviation, Casualty, Fire, Fidelity and Surety, General Liability, Motor Vehicle, Municipal, Professional Negligence, Errors and Omissions, Property and Personal Injury). Computer Technology, Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Telecommunications. Admitted to the bar, 1989, Ontario.
Author: "Pollution from Dumping," in Douglas M. Johnston, educated, The Environmental Law of the Sea, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland, 1981.
With Douglas M. Johnston, eds., The Law of the Sea and Ocean Industry: New Opportunities and Restraints, Law of the Sea Institute, 1984. "Arrest of Vessels and the Law of the Sea," in Robert B. Krueger and Stefan A. Riesenfeld, eds., The Developing Order of the Oceans, Law of the Sea Institute, 1986.
"Recovery for Economic Loss in Tort in Canada" (1996) 1J1L39. Assistant Director, Dalhousie Ocean Studies Programme, 1983-1986.
Assistant Professor of Law, Dalhousie Law School, 1980-1986.
Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 1986-1988. Member: Canadian Maritime Law Association (Company-Chairman, Shipping Documentation Subsection, 1983-1985). Oceans Institute of Canada (Associate).
Chartered Institute of Transport (Associate Member).
History & Growth: The firm was founded in 1936 by Henry Borden, Queen's Counsel and Beverley V. Elliot, Queen's Counsel, two distinguished members of the Ontario bar, whose service in the firm is recognized in its name. Today Borden & Elliot is one of the largest law firms in Canada.
There are over 200 lawyers practising in our offices in the Scotia Plaza in downtown Toronto and our York Region Office in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Member: Canadian Maritime Law Association (Company-Chairman, Shipping Documentation Subsection, 1983-1985). Oceans Institute of Canada (Associate). Chartered Institute of Transport (Associate Member).