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A boutique Toronto law firm focusing on civil litigation, labour law, defence of solicitors negligence claims, and professional regulation.

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      • Sean Dewart
      • Tim Gleason
      • Adrienne Lei
      • Adam Pantel
      • Heidi Rubin
      • Megan Reid
      • Chris Donovan
      • Allyson Amster
      • Shoshana Bentley Jacobs
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      • Tina West (Sean Dewart's assistant)
      • Sabrina Carvalho
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      • Christien Lam
      • Lauren Allan
      • Johanna Ebora
      • Althea Jack
      • Murph
      • Dave Hynes (bookkeeping)
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We have also represented trade unions in numerous injunction proceedings where there is no decision to cite here, because there was no order: the best of all possible worlds.

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  • Penner v. Niagara (Regional Police Services Board), Supreme Court of Canada

    Decision Date: 
    2013-04-05
    Case Link: 
    Penner v. Niagara, 2013 SCC 19

    Tim Gleason and Sean Dewart represented the Canadian Civil Liberties Association in this appeal concerning the application of issue estoppel arising from a comlaint under the Police Services Act.

     

  • Adi v. Datta, 2011 ONSC 2496 (CanLII)

    Decision Date: 
    2011-04-21
    Case Link: 
    Adi v. Datta - Canadian Airport Workers Union

    When the leadership of the Canadian Airport Workers Union went rogue and refused to hold an election as requred by its constitution, three members sued to compel their leaders to submit to the democratic will of the membership.  Sean Dewart and Tim Gleason represented the plaintiffs, and successfully argued for a mandatory injunction requiring the defendants to hold elections for the leadership of the union.

  • Vancouver (City) v. Ward, 2010 SCC 27, [2010] 2 S.C.R. 28

    Decision Date: 
    2010-07-23
    Case Link: 
    Vancouver (City) v. Ward, 2010 SCC 27, [2010] 2 S.C.R. 28

    Ward v. Vancouver, the Supreme Court of Canada held that damages are available as a remedy for a breach of Charter rights.

  • Miazga v. Kvello Estate

    Decision Date: 
    2009-11-06
    Case Link: 
    Miazga v. Kvello Estate, 2009 SCC 51, [2009] 3 S.C.R. 339

    In Miazga v. Kvello Estate, 2009 SCC 51 the Supreme Court of Canada clarified the scope of potential tort liability of crown prosecutors.

  • CUPE Local 4400 v Toronto District School Board, 2008 CanLII 67243 (ON L.A.)

    Decision Date: 
    2008-12-18
    Case Link: 
    CUPE Local 4400 v Toronto District School Board, 2008 CanLII 67243 (ON L.A.)

    An arbitrator ruled that the Toronto District School Board's mandatory retirement policy violated employees' rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

    Tim Gleason represented the Union.

  • Toronto District School Board v. CUPE, 2008 CanLII 67243 (ON L.A.)

    Decision Date: 
    2008-12-18
    Case Link: 
    Toronto District School Board v. CUPE, 2008 CanLII 67243 (ON L.A.)

    In Toronto District School Board v. CUPE, 2008 CanLII 67243, a mandatory retirement policy was found to have violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

  • General Motors of Canada Limited v. Canadian Auto Workers Union, Local 222, 2008 CanLII 28750 (ON S.C.)

    Decision Date: 
    2008-06-13
    Case Link: 
    General Motors of Canada Limited v. Canadian Auto Workers Union, Local 222, 2008 CanLII 28750 (ON S.C.)

    General Motors of Canada Limited v. Canadian Auto Workers Union, Local 222, 2008 CanLII 28750 the Court found that General Motors Corporation had engaged in deceit-like behaviour in its bargaining with CAW when it planned to close a truck plant in Oshawa, ON.

  • Hill v. Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Services Board

    Decision Date: 
    2007-10-04
    Case Link: 
    Hill v. Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Services Board, 2007 SCC 41, [2007] 3 S.C.R. 129

    The Supreme Court of Canada held that people who are wrongly charged with a crime can sue the police for negligent investigations.

  • Odhavji Estate v. Woodhouse, 2003 SCC 69, [2003] 3 S.C.R. 263

    Decision Date: 
    2005-12-12
    Case Link: 
    Odhavji Estate v. Woodhouse, 2003 SCC 69, [2003] 3 S.C.R. 263

    Negligence — Duty of care — Victim killed by police — Police officers involved in shooting not complying with statutory duty to cooperate with SIU investigation — Plaintiffs bringing actions in negligence against chief of police, police services board and province — Whether they owed plaintiffs duty to take reasonable care to ensure that police officers cooperated with investigation.

  • Payne v. Wilson, 2002

    Decision Date: 
    2002-04-07
    Case Link: 
    Payne v. Wilson, 2002 CanLII 45002 (ON C.A.)

    In Payne v. Wilson, 2002 CanLII 45002 the Court blocked the Mike Harris government's plan to privatize Ontario Hydro.

  • Rogers v. Sudbury (Administrator of Ontario Works)

    Decision Date: 
    2001-05-31
    Case Link: 
    Rogers v. Sudbury (Administrator of Ontario Works), 2001 CanLII 28086 (ON S.C.)

    In Rogers v. Sudbury (Administrator of Ontario Works), 2001 CanLII 28086 the court ordered the provincial government to rescind a dickensian lifetime welfare ban.

  • Doe v. Metropolitan Toronto (Municipality) Commissioners of Police

    Decision Date: 
    1998-07-03
    Case Link: 
    Jane Doe v. Toronto Police

    In Jane Doe v. Toronto Police, a woman successfully sued the police when they failed to protect her from a serial rapist at large in her community.

  • York University v. York University Staff Assn. (King Grievance) (2008), 173 L.A.C. (4th)

    In York University v. York University Staff Assn. (King Grievance) (2008), 173 L.A.C. (4th) 251 an arbitrator determined that the Labour Relations Act, 1995 prohibited discrimination that would be contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

  • Southern Ontario Newsmedia Guild v. Toronto Sun, 2010 CanLII 63898 (ON L.A.)

    Case Link: 
    Southern Ontario Newsmedia Guild v. Toronto Sun, 2010 CanLII 63898 (ON L.A.)

    When Sun Media moved pre-press work from the Toronto Sun to its non-union operation in Woodstock, Ontario, an arbitrator found that it violated Article 402 of its collective agreement with SONG, which provided that the employer would not assign work of the bargaining unit to its employees outside of the bargaining unit, if such assignment caused a layoff.

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  • Teamsters Canada, Local 419 v. Tenaquip Ltd. (Vandervende Grievance) (2002), 112 LAC (4th) 60

    Teamsters Canada, Local 419 v. Tenaquip Ltd. (Vandervende Grievance) (2002), 112 LAC (4th) 60, an arbitrator found that she had jurisdiction to order an employer to terminate a manager in appropriate circumstances.

  • Kitchener-Waterloo Record, a Division of TDNG Inc. v. Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union

    Kitchener-Waterloo Record, a Division of TDNG Inc. v. Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, Local 87M (Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild) (Dress Code Grievance) 147 L.A.C. (4th) 417, an arbitrator struck down a newspaper company's attempt to impose a dress code upon its employees.

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