Mandates

Applicability of vicarious liability provisions of Occupational Health and Safety Act to project owners.

Successfully represented plaintiffs, Ontario Court of Appeal, reversing worldwide asset freeze, leading authority on investigative receivers, personal liability of court appointed receiver for costs.

Counsel to a class of children in care in a class action against the Government of Manitoba seeking compensation for Manitoba’s policy of forcibly misappropriating the Children’s Special Allowance.

Acting for Manulife in response to an application by Mosten in Saskatchewan for the interpretation of a standard form universal life insurance policy.

Representing Aon in claim against Marsh and two former employees for improperly soliciting clients of Aon’s.

Federalism appeal concerning banks’ constitutional challenge to provincial ability to apply market conduct regulation to promotion and distribution of certain types of insurance.

Counsel in the successful defence, by way of summary judgment, of a class action by a group of physicians seeking damages for alleged wrongful taxation processing.

Successfully defended an a court-appointed receiver in resisting a stay application for the inadvertent access of purportedly privileged communications.

Successfully obtained a $12 million dollar arbitral award on behalf of a major pharmaceutical distribution company after a 10-day private arbitration.

Counsel to REDRESS Trust in the Supreme Court of Canada in a case involving the right to sue foreign governments for torture.