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Counsel. One of Canada's most respected advocates, the Honorable Ian Binnie served for
nearly 14 years as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Binnie authored more than
170 opinions, including on landmark cases involving issues of patent interpretation and
validity, protection of trade-marks, media law, commercial disputes, punitive damages,
expert evidence and many aspects of constitutional, criminal and administrative law.
Over the course of three decades as a litigator, he argued cases in most of the common-law
provinces and appeared regularly before the Supreme Court on a range of constitutional,
civil and criminal matters.
Ian Binnie,
CC, QC
Lenczner Slaght
Royce Smith
Griffin LLP
Tel: (416) 865-3737
Fax: (416) 865-9010
Toronto
ibinnie@litigate.com
Senior litigation counsel and Fasken Martineau's principal Toronto contact for defama-
tion matters. Peter Downard has acted as defamation counsel in the Supreme Court
of Canada, Ontario Court of Appeal and trials and in many mediations and advisory
matters. He is author of the legal text Libel (third edition, 2014; second edition, 2010; first
edition, 2003), referred to as authority in numerous court decisions, and sole author of
the volume Defamation in Halsbury's Laws of Canada (2009 and 2013 Reissue). In 2010
he was appointed as one of three members of the Ontario Attorney General's Advisory
Panel on Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPP), resulting in the
pending Ontario Protection of Public Participation Act. He also has extensive experience
in commercial and public interest advocacy, was lead counsel to former Ontario Premier
Mike Harris in the Ipperwash Inquiry (2004–06). Included in e Canadian Legal
Lexpert® Directory 2010–2015 for Litigation – Defamation & Media.
Ryder Gilliland is a litigation partner with a wide-ranging counsel practice spanning
many litigation areas including complex corporate commercial litigation, commercial
arbitration, 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 Federal Court of Appeal, 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 e Advocates' Society. He is an Adjunct
Professor at Ryerson University, Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Media Lawyers'
Association (Ad IDEM) and Chair of the Education and Program Committee of the
Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society.
Peter A.
Downard
Fasken
Martineau
DuMoulin LLP
Tel: (416) 865-4369
Fax: (416) 364-7813
Toronto
Ryder
Gilliland
Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP
Tel: (416) 863-5849
Toronto
pdownard@fasken.com
ryder.gilliland@blakes.com
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