Webnesh Haile
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Associates to watch : Construction
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Provided by Webnesh Haile
Practice Areas
Construction and Infrastructure Law
Career
Webnesh has a broad construction law practice and has acted for owners, concessionaires, sureties, developers, engineers, contractors and subcontractors at various stages of project development and execution. Her dispute resolution practice has included acting for various parties in the construction chain during litigation, arbitration, mediation and negotiation, and advising regarding strategic dispute management prior to the commencement of formal proceedings.
Webnesh also drafts and advises on the negotiation of construction contracts, including CCDC and ACEC standard form contracts and supplementary conditions, and has experience relating to insurance matters, including with respect to commercial general liability, builder’s risk and wrap-up liability policies.
Professional Memberships
- Member, Advocates’ Society’s Young Advocates Standing Committee
- Member, The Advocates’ Society
- Member, Ontario Bar Association, Construction and Infrastructure Law, Natural Resources and Energy Law and Young Lawyers’ Division Sections
- Member, Canadian Bar Association, Construction Law Section
Publications
- Author, “A Call To Allyship: How to be an Effective Ally,” The Advocates’ Society | Keeping Tabs, July, 2020
- Co-Author, “Case Comment: A Narrow Interpretation of the Coverage Available Under a Builder’s Risk Insurance Policy: Pre-Eng v. Intact,” (2019) 37:6 Can. J. Ins. L. 61; originally published in the Ontario Bar Association’s Construction and Infrastructure Section Newsletter, August, 2019
- Co-Author, “A Thousand Pounds a Word: Following Ledcor, Policy Wording Continues to Govern in Insurance Policy Disputes,” Canadian College of Construction Lawyers Legal Update #151, March, 2019
- Co-Author, “Are Construction Defects Covered Property Damage in an Insurance Contract?,” Construction Law Letter, Vol. 33, No. 5, May/June, 2017
- Co-Author, “Environmental Assessment and Environmental Impact Review in the Post-Devolution Northwest Territories,” Kevin Hanna, ed, Environmental Impact Assessment: Practice and Participation, 3d ed (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Personal
- Recognized in Chambers Canada — Canada’s Leading Lawyers for Business (Construction) as an Associate to Watch in the area of Construction Law.
- Ranked in the area of Construction Law by Best Lawyers Canada®
- Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award, University of Toronto
- Volunteer, Habitat for Humanity
- Former Volunteer, University of Toronto Alumni Association (UTAA)