Practice Profile
Stuart Lang leads the Health Practice which provides comprehensive legal services to hospitals and other health care professionals in the health industry.
Members of our Health Practice are aware of the financial constraints facing the health industry, and work efficiently and effectively in small teams in order to provide our clients with control over legal expenses, while at the same time ensuring access to the collective experience of all departments within our firm.
Corporate/Commercial
- intellectual property and technology
- construction contracts for hospital facilities
- real property development
- hospital mergers
- hospital governance
- structuring charitable foundations for hospitals
- establishing research institutes for hospitals
- advising on computer and telehealth systems
- advising on government leases of hospital facilities
- developing hospital bylaws
Administrative Law
- hospital privilege cases
- patient care and health care professional issues
- developing medical staff bylaws
- advising on Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act issues
- medical records access and confidentiality issues
- advice on consent to treatment and termination of treatment issues
Estates
- advising hospital foundations on planned giving
- compliance issues for hospital foundations
- advice and representation in all estate litigation including defence of wills variation and trust claims
- wills and trusts interpretation, cy-pres and charitable gift interpretation
- adult guardianship applications
- executor and trustee accounting and compensation
Liability Claims
- defending health care facilities and their employees from various claims arising from their day to day business, including occupiers liability and professional negligence claims.
