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DEFAMATION & MEDIA Ryder Gilliland Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Tel: (416) 863-5849 Fax: (416) 863-2653 Toronto ryder.gilliland@blakes.com Ryder Gilliland is a litigation partner with a wide-ranging counsel practice spanning many litigation areas, including corporate commercial, tax, securities, defamation, competition, and constitutional. He has appeared as counsel at all levels of court in Ontario, and before the New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench, the Federal Court, the Tax Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada. He also practices outside the court system in commercial arbitrations and before specialized tribunals such as the Ontario Securities Commission. Gilliland speaks at conferences, writes regularly, and holds memberships with the Canadian Bar Association and The Advocates' Society. He is an Adjunct Professor at Ryerson University and a member of the Board of the Canadian Media Lawyers' Association (Ad IDEM). Paul B. Schabas Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Tel: (416) 863-4274 Fax: (416) 863-2653 Toronto paul.schabas@blakes.com Richard G. Dearden Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Tel: (613) 786-0135 Fax: (613) 788-3430 Ottawa richard.dearden@gowlings.com Broad litigation practice, including commercial, white-collar crime, regulatory, constitutional and public law. Represents Canada's major media on defamation and freedom of speech cases. Counsel on leading Charter cases dealing with freedom of speech, equality, judicial independence, fundamental justice and search and seizure, many in the Supreme Court of Canada. Bencher of The Law Society of Upper Canada; Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers; Director, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, The Advocates' Society, The Law Foundation of Ontario and The Osgoode Society. Past President, Pro Bono Law Ontario and of Ad IDEM/Canadian Media Lawyers Association. Published many articles on media and Charter issues, and frequent speaker at conferences. Named one of Canada's "25 most influential lawyers" by Canadian Lawyer magazine, 2011. Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (media and defamation law course). Rick Dearden, a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, is a Gowlings senior litigation partner, practicing primarily in the areas of international trade, investor-state arbitration, media and defamation law, freedom of information, and administrative law. His accomplishments have been recognized by Lexpert® , The Best Lawyers in Canada, Canadian Who's Who, International Who's Who of Trade and Customs Lawyers, Benchmark Canada, Who's Who Legal: Canada and Chambers Global. He acted as counsel for the Ottawa Citizen before the Supreme Court of Canada in the seminal cases of Cusson v. Quan and Grant v. Torstar that created the "public interest responsible communication" defense to libel actions in Canada. Dearden has also acted as counsel at all levels of courts in Ontario, the Federal Courts, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal and investor-state arbitrations under NAFTA. He served as chair of a soft wood lumber panel under Chapter 19 of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and litigates NAFTA and WTO disputes, particularly intellectual property issues. Mark Bantey Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Tel: (514) 392-9501 Fax: (514) 876-9501 Montréal mark.bantey@gowlings.com 98 | LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca Mark Bantey practices media law, civil and commercial litigation, and administrative and constitutional law. Specialized in media law, acting for both national and local press, Bantey has extensive experience in pre-publication review, libel law, access to information law, freedom of the press issues such as publication bans and protection of journalistic sources, constitutional law and human rights. As a litigator in media law and commercial law, he acts before courts of all jurisdictions, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Bantey has lectured in media law at Concordia University at the bachelor and master's levels. Frequently called upon to give seminars on both the theoretical aspects of media law and practical difficulties facing journalists, he participates regularly in media law seminars. He has been recognized as leading practitioner in defamation and media law by The Best Lawyers in Canada since its inception in 2006 and consistently in The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory.