Pro Bono 

The Neighbourhood Group et al. v. HMKRO 2025

Counsel to a community charity and provider of supervised consumption services in a constitutional challenge to a Community Care and Recovery Act, 2024, which imposes a ban on the operation of supervised consumption sites. We obtained an injunction that will allow supervised consumption sites to remain open, despite an Ontario law that would have required the immediate closure of 10 sites across the province. (2025 ONSC 1934)

Canadian Civil Liberties Association

Francis v. Ontario

Counsel to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) in the Ontario Court of Appeal upholding the common law distinction between policy and operational decisions in tort law governing public authorities. (2021 ONCA 197)

R. v. Kloubakov

Counsel to the CCLA at the Supreme Court of Canada, constitutionality of criminal prohibitions surrounding sex work.

R. v. Zora

Counsel to the CCLA in the Supreme Court of Canada, whether mens rea for the offence of failure to comply with conditions of undertaking or recognizance is assessed on subjective or objective standard. (2020 SCC 14)

Canadian Civil Liberties Association v. Canada

Counsel to the CCLA in Ontario Court of Appeal striking down the solitary confinement provisions of the federal Correctional Services Act as constituting cruel and unusual treatment or punishment. (2019 ONCA 243; 2017 ONSC 7491; and 2017 ONSC 4191) 

Cuthbertson v. Rasouli

Counsel to the Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses in Supreme Court of Canada, whether physicians have the discretion to withdraw life support over the objections of patient’s family.  (2013 SCC 53)

Canada (Attorney General) v. PHS Community Services Society

Counsel to nurses associations in Supreme Court of Canada, lawful operation of safe injection site in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side. (2011 SCC 44)

Women’s Crisis Services of Waterloo Region v. Reid’s Heritage Construction Ltd. et al.

Counsel to the Women’s Crisis Services of Waterloo Region in the Superior Court of Justice in an action for damages arising from construction and building deficiencies affecting the women’s shelter located at Haven House.

Aroma Franchise Company, Inc. v. Aroma Espresso Bar Canada Inc.

Counsel to ADR Institute of Canada and Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society in Ontario Court of Appeal, arbitrators’ duties of disclosure, independence and impartiality. (2024 ONCA 839)

Ahmad v. Peel Regional Police Services Board

Counsel to Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association in Superior Court of Justice, resisting publication ban in police shooting, open court principle. (2024 ONSC 2474) 

Keatley Surveying Ltd. v. Teranet Inc.

Counsel to Canadian Legal Information Institute in Supreme Court of Canada, interpretation and scope of the Crown copyright provisions of the Copyright Act. (2019 SCC 43)

Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. v. Canada

Counsel to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association in Supreme Court of Canada, constitutionality of publication bans in bail proceedings. (2010 SCC 21)

Canadian Civil Liberties Association

R. v. Cole

Counsel to Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) in Supreme Court of Canada, expectation of privacy in employer-owned computers. (2012 SCC 53)

R. v. Jarvis

Counsel to CCLA in Supreme Court of Canada, voyeurism provisions of the Criminal Code. (2019 SCC 10)

R. v. Patrick

Counsel to CCLA in Supreme Court of Canada, establishing constitutionally protected expectation of privacy in household garbage. (2009 SCC 17)

R. v. A.M.; R. v. Kang-Brown; R. v. A. M.

Counsel to CCLA in Supreme Court of Canada, striking down random sniffer dog searches of students and their backpacks. (2008 SCC 19; 2008 SCC 18; 2006 CanLII 13550 (ON CA))

Canadian Civil Liberties Association

R. v. Ramelson

Counsel to CCLA in Supreme Court of Canada, entrapment doctrine in digital spaces. (2022 SCC 44)

R. v. Le

Counsel to CCLA in Supreme Court of Canada, meaning of arbitrary detention. (2019 SCC 34)

R. v. Clayton

Counsel to CCLA in Supreme Court of Canada, constitutionality of police roadblocks in emergencies. (2007 SCC 32)

Mathur v. Ontario

Counsel to CCLA in Ontario Court of Appeal, constitutional challenge of carbon emissions reduction target. (2024 ONCA 762)

Whearty v. Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care

Counsel in judicial review of Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario decision disqualifying counsel. (2024 ONSC 5638)

Soliman v. Bordman

Counsel to plaintiff in Superior Court of Justice, precedent-setting defamation case, Islamophobic speech. (2021 ONSC 7023)

Paramount Fine Foods v. Kevin J. Johnston

Counsel to plaintiff in a defamation action, award of $2.5 million, Islamophobic hate speech, 18-month prison sentence for contempt. (2019 ONSC 2910; 2021 ONSC 6558)

Ferrone v. One Dealer Financial Services Inc.

Counsel to an individual defending a claim from a door-to-door HVAC financing company asserting a security interest in her home, achieved favourable settlement for the customer/homeowner.

Foster v. Canadian Home Improvement Credit Corporation et al

Counsel to an individual homeowner pursuing a claim against door-to-door appliance retailers for misrepresentation, rescission of rental contracts, and deletion of registered security interests against the homeowner’s property, achieved a favourable settlement for the homeowner.