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LEGAL SERVICES
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NOT FOR PROFIT
Notarization
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Shameela Chinoy, B.Comm., LL.M
Lawyer & Notary Public
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 taught law in Ontario Universities as a part-time professor and lecturer in Banking Law for the Bachelor of Laws program at the University of Toronto, and 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 2008, 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 Ontario
Canadian Bar Association
Ontario Bar Association
The Law Society, England
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