Cases
Representative Work
Adjudicating professional discipline matters involving lawyers
Justices of the Peace. Providing independent legal advice to adjudicators
boards of adjudication. Advising Ontario educational institutions, including school boards, universities
independent schools, with respect to their management
governance. Advising
representing Ontario school boards
trustees' associations in negotiations with the province, in the areas of labour relations
capital funding. Advising
representing Ontario school boards with respect to the denominational rights of Roman Catholics. Advising
representing Ontario school boards
trustees' associations in matters relating to the minority language education rights of francophones - most recently before the Supreme Court of Canada in Casimir v. Quebec. Advising
representing Ontario school boards in all types of labour
employment law matters,
in human rights matters involving students
employees. Advising private
public sector institutions in the areas of policy development
administration. Advising
representing complainants, Commissions
respondents in human rights disputes - complaints of discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, race, religion
h
icap, as well as sexual harassment
reprisals - in the courts
before administrative tribunals. Advising
acting in other constitutional challenges to legislation, under the Canadian Charter of Rights
Freedoms, most recently, representing the Canadian Human Rights Commission in a constitutional challenge to section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (spreading hate on the Internet).