Our Team

Experience

• Class Action Counsel at Certification Motions, Motions to Stay individual actions, for Disclosure and Discovery, assertions of privilege & relief from the implied undertaking
• Lead counsel in more than 200 application hearings, including multi-day or multi-week trials, identifying, preparing and examining dozens of client, lay and expert witnesses
• Thoroughly familiar with trial preparation, the retention of experts, the rules of evidence, court room decorum and advocacy, and in-person and virtual trial & hearing procedures
• Counsel in over 50 Nova Scotia Court of Appeal hearing decisions, as well as motions to stay, extend time to appeal, settle the record, strike appeals & offer fresh evidence
• Successfully opposed leave applications before the Supreme Court of Canada on six occasions, including with motions to extend time, expedite rulings and stay orders
• Bar Co-Chair with Chief Justice of Nova Scotia for the Court of Appeal Liaison Committee, appointed by the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society
• Thorough knowledge of and experience with judicial review of government decision-making, standards of review, decision-makers’ duty of procedural fairness, reasonable apprehension of bias, evidence outside the record and prerogative writ procedures
• Has presented papers on appellate law and practice for the Canadian Bar Association (Nova Scotia) and the Atlantic Provinces Trial Lawyers Association