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2022 ONSC 4550, aff’d 2024 ONCA 81 | The defendants obtained escalated, personal costs following the trial of an action brought against them by an estate trustee for her own personal benefit after she failed to prove allegations of fraud.

2025 ONSC 1162 | This is a successful summary judgment motion for the plaintiffs – Thunder Bay drag performers who were libeled as pedophiles on social media.

2025 ONSC 5504 | The defendant law student was successful having a defamation action brought against her by a senior police officer dismissed as a SLAPP.

2025 ONSC 4678 | This default judgment on behalf of the plaintiff staff and directors of an HIV/AIDS organization resulted in one of the highest defamation awards in Ontario.

2026 ONSC 3983 | This application resulted in the reading down of a section of the Canada Transportation Act for infringing the Charter’s section 2(b) right to freedom of expression by violating the open court principle.

2025 ONSC 5265 | The defendant employee was successful striking the claim against him on the basis that it failed to disclose sufficient particulars as compared to his corporate employer.

2022 ONSC 5470 | The plaintiff directors obtained an oppression remedy against the defendant who had falsified their signature to obtain and then misappropriate loan financing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

2023 HRTO 19 | The respondents were successful having the application dismissed by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario as an abuse of process after the applicant refused to comply with procedural orders.

2025 ONSC 1187 | The plaintiff was successful obtaining orders redistributing her brother’s inheritance from their late mother’s estate after the court found that the brother had stolen their father’s estate assets.