Joe Hoffer

About

Joe Hoffer is a lawyer and partner with Cohen Highley LLP, a law firm with offices in London, Kitchener, Chatham and Sarnia. Joe has a litigation-based practice (for over 30 years) in the areas of Real Estate, Condominium Law, Land Use Planning, and Residential Tenancies Law (Landlords only). He appears regularly before Provincial Boards and Tribunals, the Superior Court of Ontario, the Ontario Divisional Court and the Ontario Court of Appeal.

Joe is a regular presenter and contributor to continuing legal education programs of the Law Society of Ontario; the Paralegal Society; at joint programs of Osgoode Hall/University of Toronto; and, at numerous education and training programs for FRPO, GTAA, LPMA, WRAMA and HDAA.

In the community, Joe is a former Chair of the London Police Services Board and of Community Living London. Joe is also an advocate for the hiring of people with disabilities and is a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and was presented with the 2010 Champion’s League award by the then Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the Hon. David Onley. For the past several years and at present, Joe is a board member with Kinwell Place, and is the former Sudan Monitor for Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada.

Articles

• LTB Rules that Landlords and Supportive Housing Providers are “Co-Landlords” and the Occupants are RTA “Tenants”
• Another LTB Decision that Affects “Hybrid” Mobile Home/Seasonal Operations
• Ruling a Cautionary Tale for Condo Boards
• Care Home vs. Retirement Home?: You Better Know The Difference!
• “Privacy” Issues Will Require Lease Amendments
• Yes! You Can Restrict Rentals to the “Over 50 Crowd”
• Camping in Ontario Bulletin: A Windfall for “Campers” and Liability for Land Owners
• Can I Fire An Employee Who Has A Disability?
• The “Double Edged Sword” of Property Tax Decreases for Multi-Res Buildings
• Third Party Property Manager Alert! You can’t Represent Anyone, Including Yourself, at the LTB
• Proving Good Faith of Condo Boards Directors
• Residential Landlords Can’t Escape “Occupier’s Liability”
• TENANTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HARASS YOUR ON-SITE STAFF
• Multi-Unit Occupancy: How Much Noise is Too Much Noise?
• Cannabis Rules
• New and Old Issues: Transferring Multi-Res Properties — Watch Out!
• Ruling Confirms RTA Does Not Apply to Seasonal Campgrounds
• 2% Prompt Payment Discounts: Worth enforcing?

Accomplishments in Caselaw

1736095 Ontario Ltd. v. Waterloo (City), 2015 ONSC 6541

2161907 Ontario Inc v. The Corporation of the City of St. Catharines and Jim Somerville, 2010 ONSC 4548

220 Eglinton Avenue East Ltd. v. Residential Complex at 220 Eglinton Avenue East (Tenants of), 1997 CarswellOnt 2950

220 Eglinton East Ltd. v. Horne, 31 O.T.C. 239

669283 Ontario Ltd. v. Reilly, O.J. No. 2780

669283 Ontario Ltd. v. Reilly, O.J. No. 273

Ash Re, 1991 CarswellOnt 4267

Ash Re, 1992 CarswellOnt 4413

Ash Re, 1992 CarswellOnt 4499

Ash Re, 1992 CarswellOnt 4415

Barker v. Park Willow Developments, O.J. No. 2985

Bay Meadows Park c/o Castle Vacation Parks Inc. v. Schedule of Parties, 2017 ONSC 625

Bayfield (Village) v. Walker, 95 O.A.C. 276

Canadian Mental Health Association v. Warren, 2004 CanLII 16439 (ON SCDC)

CAPREIT Limited Partnership v. Griffin, 2016 ONSC 5150

Coburn v. Tenants of 152 Concession 11 Road West, 2014 ONSC 2421 (CanLII)

da Silva v. C.U.P.W., 1991 CarswellNat 966

Drewlo Holdings Inc. v. Weber, 2011 ONSC 6407 (canLII)

Egan v. Kincardine Golf & Country Club, 2023 ONSC 4498

Embleton Allison Holdings Ltd. v. Ontario (Minister of Housing), 1995 CarswellOnt 3374

Etobicoke (City) Official Plan Amendments C-65-86 and C-82-88, 26 O.M.B.R. 306

Faruk v. The Landlord and Tenant Board, 2023 ONSC 2191

First Ontario Realty Corporation v. Appelrouth, 2012 ONSC 5030 (CanLII)

First Ontario Realty Corporation Ltd. v. Deng, 2009 CanLII 59155 (ON SCDC)

Gonte Construction Limited v. Tenants of 90 Eastdale Ave and 2 Secord Ave, 2012 ONSC 6733 (CanLII)

Heath v. Tillsonburg (Town), 63 O.R. (3d) 366

Highmark Properties v. Rupple, 1993 CarswellOnt 2494

Houston v. 530675 Ontario, 2017 ONSC 6419

Leduc v, Glen Echo Park Inc, 2011 ONSC 2573

Liakos v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of Environment), 2004 CarswellOnt 2671

London Property Management Association v. City of London, 2011 ONSC 4710

Lucan Biddulph (Township) Zoning By-law 16-2004, Re, 48 O.M.B.R. 391

Matthews et al. v. Algoma Timberlakes Corporation, 2010 ONCA 468, 102 O.R. (3d) 590

McMaster v. SIFTON Properties Limited, 2024 ONLTB 73073

Minto Yorkville Inc. v. Trattoria Fieramosca Inc., 1997 CarswellOnt 4738

Minto Yorkville Inc. v. Trattoria Fieramosca Inc., 1997 CarswellOnt 4085

Moriarity v. Sarnia (City), 113 O.A.C. 24

Nakas v. M & R Holdings, 2023 ONLTB 19864

National Trust Co. v. Bouckhuyt, 44 R.P.R. 264

Norquay Campus Properties Ltd. v. Chatham-Kent Fire and Emergency Services, 2018 ONFSC 7

Norquay Campus Properties Ltd. v. Chatham-Kent Fire Services, 2019 ONSC 6888

Norquay Campus Properties Ltd. v. Office of the Fire Marshal and Emergency Management, 2018 ONSC 2361

Ontario (Attorney General) v. Nanji, 2020 ONCA 591

Ontario (Attorney General) v. Nanji, 2020 ONCA 592

Oriole Park Resort Inc. v. Middlesex (Municipality), 2008 CanLII 60335 (ON SC)

O’Shanter Development Company Ltd. v. Adai et al, 2023 ONSC 6478

O’Shanter Development Company Ltd v. Barbara Augustin, 2021 ONSC 1720

O’Shanter Development v. Bernstein, 2018 ONSC 557

O’Shanter Development Company Limited v. Terry Babcooke et al, 2022 ONSC 5040

Park v. 6085997 Canada Inc., 2004 CarswellOnt 3361

Parsons v. Twin Elm Estates, 2001 CarswellOnt 5369

Red Carpet Inns Ltd. v. Ontario, 24 R.P.R. (4^th) 69

Red Carpet Inns Ltd. v. Ontario, 24 R.P.R. (4^th) 58

Red Carpet Inns Ltd. v. Ontario, 24 R.P.R. (4^th) 62

Sabrie v. Starlight Apartments Ltd., 2014 ONSC 3551

Sapershteyn et al. v. 1821317 Ontario Limited et al, 2023 ONSC 5977

Sarnia  (City) v. River City Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Sarnia, 2015 ONCA 494

Sarnia  (City) v. River City Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Sarnia, 2015 ONCA 732

Sifton v. Ontario Property Assessment Corp., Region No. 22, O.A.R.B.D. No. 1184

Southridge Apartments v. Hastings, 2005 CarswellOnt 6276

St. Louis v. Capreit LP, 2015 ONSC 5538

St. Louis v. Capreit LP, 2015 ONSC 5908

Steeves v. Braund, 136 D.L.R. (4^th) 273

Steeves v. Ontario (Housing), 1996 CanLII 10208 (ON CA)

Tenants of 10 Shallmar Blvd. v. Shallmar Court Apartments Inc., 2000 CarswellOnt 4422

Tenants of 1292 Carlyon Line (Silver Creek) v. 375321 Ontario Ltd., 2000 CarswellOnt 4581

The Corporation of the City of London v. Ordinal, 2010 ONSC 1998

The Corporation of the City of Sarnia v. Bluewater Health, 2016 ONSC 5571

The Corporation of the City of Sarnia v. Bluewater Health, 2016 ONSC 3501

Timmermans v. Lucan Biddulph (Township) Committee of Adjustments, 2002 CarswellOnt 7271

Totzek v. Park Willow Developments, 2004 CarswellOnt 5468

Upper Thames River Conservation Authority v. London (City), 67 O.R. (2d) 784

Urbanowicz v. Transglobe, 2010 ONSC 2063

Vella v. Schuller, 2005 CarswellOnt 4993

Walmer Developments c/o Briarlane Rental Property Management v. Tenants of 10 Walmer Road, 2010 ONSC 3789

Warren v. Canadian Mental Health Association, 2004 CarswellOnt 2372

Wilson v. O.P.S.E.U. Local 110, O.L.R.B. Rep. 481

Wilson v. O.P.S.E.U. Local 110, O.L.R.B. Rep. 1167

Wilson Property Holdings Inc v. Anthony, 2021 CanLII 77313 (ON LTB)

Yundt v. Parker, 2014 ONSC 1805