By Namratha Sankar ( October 8, 2025, 11:56 AM EDT) -- In June 2025, my colleague, Michael G. von Keitz, wrote an article that reviewed a trio of cases (Salmon v. Rombough, 2024 ONSC 1186; Re: O’Neill Estate, 2024 ONSC 2228; and Urback v. Canadian Cancer Society et al., 2025 ONSC 3313) each of which further clarified the boundaries of substantial compliance legislation in Ontario. Subsection 21.1(1) of the Succession Law Reform Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. S.26 (the SLRA) gives the court the discretion to validate a testamentary document that was not properly executed or made under the SLRA....