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LEGAL SERVICES
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NOT FOR PROFIT
Notarization
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shameela
Chinoy,
B.Comm., LL.M
Barrister, Solicitor & Notary
A commercial lawyer specialised in banking and financial services law,
Shameela Chinoy has practiced law in three common law jurisdictions. She
is a published author and speaker at professionally organized conferences.
Ms. Chinoy has been a part-time professor and lecturer in
Banking
Law
for
the Bachelor of Laws program at the University of Toronto, and is
presently teaching the
Law
of
Banking
and
Negotiable
Instruments
at the
Bachelor of Laws program at the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
and the course Technological Innovation and Competition in Banking Law at
the Masters in Banking Law program at the Osgoode Hall Law School of York
University Professional Development Program.
From 1999 till present, Ms. Chinoy has been the Associate Editor of the
Banking and Finance Law Review, the leading journal on banking law
published by Carswell. Ms. Chinoy has also assisted Bradley Crawford Q.C.
at McCarthy Tetrault with legal research for the current edition of the
leading text on banking law - Payment, Clearing & Settlement in Canada,
Volumes I & II published by Canada Law Book, 2002.
Ms. Chinoy has appeared before the
Task Force on the Future of Canadian
Financial Institutions and been quoted in the research paper
prepared for the
Task Force by Ernst & Young in September 1998.
Ms. Chinoy has developed expertise in a number of areas of business law
including personal property security legislation, electronic commerce,
privacy, and issues relating to the Canadian payment and clearing systems.
She served as a member of the group reviewing draft uniform electronic
commerce legislation that resulted in the Uniform Law Commissioner’s
Conference model Uniform Electronic Commerce Act which was used by the
federal government and the provinces in drafting electronic commerce
legislation.
professional affiliations
Law Society of
Upper Canada
Canadian Bar
Association
Ontario Bar
Association
The
Law Society, England
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