Preface

• Author: John Dickie/David Lyman
• Pages: 17-18

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The fifth edition of Working with the Residential Tenancies Act explains the practicalities

of representing residential landlords and tenants at the Ontario Landlord and Tenant

Board. By having this concrete understanding of the rights, procedures, documents, and

remedies that surround this area of law, readers will be prepared for most tribunal appli-

cations which proceed under the Residential Tenancies Act.

The text includes up-to-date forms and case law, more robust coverage of rent dis-

counts and the rules around them, and more detailed procedural information, making it

an incredibly valuable resource for anyone working in the field of residential tenancies.

Features of the new edition include:

• revised and updated forms;

• new case law;

• more Case in Point boxes, which provide context to situations for readers;

• information about the new virtual hearing rules brought in under COVID-19 but

likely to continue;

• revised information on the new rules affecting applications for terminations for

personal use or renovations;

• a note on the expanded jurisdiction of the Board covering claims against former

tenants and claims for utility arrears and other compensation; and

• updated information on many other changes to the RTA since the fourth edition.

For Instructors

For information on obtaining the teaching resources available to instructors who have

chosen this book for their courses, visit the For Instructors tab on the book’s website:

<https://www.emond.ca/wrta5> or contact your Emond Publishing representative for

more information.

Acknowledgments

This work is referred to as the fifth edition, but you would search in vain for a first edition

with the same title. The first edition, by Carol Albert and John Dickie, was published as

Working with the Tenant Protection Act, because that was the title of the Ontario statute

on residential tenancies when the first edition was published in 2000.

When the occasion arose to revise the first edition to reflect the changes brought

about by the new Residential Tenancies Act, Carol graciously allowed me to build on the

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