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Chair of Torys' Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice. Senior trial/appellate counsel
with a broad civil litigation practice, including corporate/commercial and securities
litigation, IP, defamation and administrative law cases. Has appeared as counsel on a wide
range of leading cases before all levels of court in Canada and in international arbitrations
and other tribunals. Has spoken and written extensively on advocacy and civil litigation.
Has taught advocacy in Canada, the United States, England, Scotland, New Zealand
and El Salvador. Recognized by Lexpert® and Benchmark as one of Canada's leading 25
women litigators. Chair, Touching Tiny Lives Foundation; President/Trustee, Harold
G. Fox Education; Trustee, Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy, Geneva;
President's Council, University of Ottawa; Advisory Board, Program on Ethics, Business
and the Law, University of Toronto Law School. Recipient of numerous awards, includ-
ing the University of Ottawa's Honorary LLD and Meritas Tabaret Award. LLB (Gold
Medalist), 1972, University of Ottawa. Ontario Bar, 1974.
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.
Senior litigation partner and chair of BLG's National Public Law Group. Practice
involves a broad range of civil litigation, including commercial disputes, directors' and
officers' duties and liability, shareholder, oppression and other corporate disputes, securi-
ties, class actions, constitutional and administrative law issues. Has appeared as counsel
before all levels of the courts in Ontario, and before the Federal Court of Appeal, British
Columbia Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Canada, and numerous administrative
tribunals, including the Ontario Securities Commission. Served as law clerk to the
Honorable Justice W.R. McIntyre, Supreme Court of Canada, 1979–1980; Elected
Bencher, e Law Society of Upper Canada, since 2008. Included in e Best Lawyers
in Canada (Administrative and Public Law, Corporate and Commercial Litigation);
Chambers Global: e World's Leading Lawyers for Business (Dispute Resolution:
Ontario) and e Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in
Canada (Corporate Commercial Litigation).
John Callaghan's broad practice includes civil litigation, commercial litigation, admin-
istrative issues and regulatory offense work. He appears before all levels of courts and
tribunals, including arbitration panels. His expertise is oen sought for complex cases.
He has been described as a very "versatile litigator" who is "unflappable" in his handling
of the myriad of cases he has "on the go." Callaghan was elected by the profession as
a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, which governs the legal profession in
Ontario. Callaghan is a member of the Civil Rules Committee, having been appointed by
successive Chief Justices of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Callaghan is co-author
of Class Action Law and Practice (Butterworths), the leading and most frequently cited
class-action text in Canada. He has been recognized as a leading counsel by e Lexpert®/
American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, e Best Lawyers
in Canada, Benchmark Canada and Chambers Global in areas such as class actions,
commercial litigation and competition.
Sheila R.
Block
Torys LLP
Tel: (416) 865-7319
Fax: (416) 865-7380
Toronto
Ian Binnie,
CC, QC
Lenczner Slaght
Royce Smith
Griffin LLP
Tel: (416) 865-3737
Fax: (416) 865-9010
Toronto
Christopher
D. Bredt
Borden Ladner
Gervais LLP
Tel: (416) 367-6165
Fax: (416) 361-7063
Toronto
John E.
Callaghan
Gowling Lafleur
Henderson LLP
Tel: (416) 369-6693
Fax: (416) 862-7661
Toronto
sblock@torys.com
ibinnie@litigate.com
cbredt@blg.com
john.callaghan@gowlings.com
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