Mandates

Whearty v. Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care, 2024 ONSC 5638 (Div. Ct.) and Whearty v. Ontario (Human Rights Tribunal), 2025 ONSC 932 (Div. Ct.)

Acted for applicant in resisting dismissal of judicial review application for prematurity, and on judicial review of HRTO decision disqualifying counsel.

Bombardier Inc. v. AS Estonian Air, 2014 ONCA 41

Successfully represented Republic of Estonia and Estonian Air in Ontario Court of Appeal establishing scope of commercial exception in State Immunity Act.

Successfully represented UWO a precedent-setting insurance case regarding insurance allocation issues

Represented the Director of a Public Company in a Breach of Contract and Wrongful Termination Action

Cyber Insurance Expertise

Assisted financial institutions in placing complex billion-dollar cyber insurance programs.

Acting for a senior executive in connection with claims for wrongful dismissal and $10 million in unpaid performance-based compensation

Acted as investigator for the Ontario Hockey League in its investigation of the ownership of the Flint Michigan Firebirds

Successfully Obtained an Injunction Compelling the Return of Sensitive Information to a Large Public Sector Union

Secured an Order mandating the immediate return of the union’s network and server data, along with an accounting by third parties of all network information accessed while under their possession.

Praxair Canada Inc.

Defence counsel in a high profile class action involving the destruction of human biological reproductive materials arising from the failure of a cryopreservation storage tank.

Canadian Western Bank v. Alberta (2007), 281 D.L.R. (4th) 125, [2007] 2 S.C.R. 3, 2007 SCC 22

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

Leavens et al. v Schwartz

Successful in enforcing a buy/sell clause in a USA before the Commercial List.