Projects
Voice Of The Child In Family Court Matters
Background The Convention on the Rights of the Child (Convention) was adopted by the United Nations in 1989 and ratified [...]
Oaths and Affirmations
A person who gives evidence by spoken testimony or by written affidavit must promise to [...]
Residential Tenancies Act
March 2025 Project Update ALRI has published its Issues Paper, Residential Tenancies: General Issues. This is the first in a [...]
Electronic Wills
The Alberta Law Reform Institute was involved in crafting the temporary protocol for remote witnessing of wills during [...]
Access To Digital Assets
Canadians Data on US Servers More than ever, people are storing their important personal [...]
Dower Act
The Alberta Law Reform Institute Has Published Dower Act, Final Report 118 Read Dower Act, Final Report 118 [...]
Uniform International Commercial Arbitration
In Alberta, the International Commercial Arbitration Act ("Alberta Act") establishes the basic legislative framework for the conduct of international commercial arbitration in [...]
Inter-Provincial Recognition of Substitute Decision-Making
Substitute decision-making documents (also called powers of attorney, personal directives, etc...) delegate authority to one person to act on [...]
Property Division for Cohabitants
ALRI is considering how the law might best provide for division of assets and protection for individuals and families [...]
Competence and Communication in the Alberta Evidence Act
On occasion, a court must determine whether a proposed witness is competent to give evidence. The question arises with [...]
Standing in the Place of a Parent: Family Maintenance and Support
We've just published Report for Discussion 34, Family Maintenance and Support from the Estate of a Person that Stood [...]
Matrimonial Property Act: Valuation Date
Alberta's Matrimonial Property Act [MPA] does not specify when matrimonial property should be valued for the purposes of division. [...]
Reviewable Transactions
The Uniform Law Conference of Canada (ULCC) approved the Uniform Act in 2012. The Uniform Act is intended to replace the [...]
Trustee Act Project
ALRI's report A New Trustee Act for Alberta, Final Report 109 sets out ALRI’s final recommendations for new trustee [...]
Rule Against Perpetuities
The Rule Against Perpetuities (RAP) is an old and complex set of legal rules designed to prevent people from [...]