Sarah is a Senior Associate in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice. Sarah’s practice focuses on commercial litigation in a variety of areas, with an emphasis on class actions, employment law, intellectual property, media law, and public law. She has appeared as counsel at all levels of court in Ontario, in various administrative tribunals in Ontario, the Alberta Court of Appeal, the Quebec Superior Court, the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Representative Work
- Canadian Hockey League, Québec Major Junior Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League, Western Hockey League and multiple junior hockey teams in multiple class actions in Québec, Ontario and Alberta concerning the employment status of amateur student hockey players
- Livingston International in a class action concerning unpaid time
- a Canadian author in defense of defamation proceedings brought before the Ontario Superior Court
- Rogers Media and other co-defendants in successfully dismissing defamation proceedings brought before the Ontario Superior Court by comedian Mike Bullard in connection with a Q&A interview published in Chatelaine following Mike Bullard’s criminal conviction
- Canada Cartage in a overtime class action concerning unpaid time
- Canadian Civil Liberties Association, as an intervener, in an appeal before the Ontario Court of Appeal concerning the police's authority to search and seize protestors’ personal belongings as a condition of entry to a public park
- a major Canadian Schedule I bank in a overtime class action concerning unpaid time
- Barbra Schlifer Clinic as a proposed intervener in a motion brought by the Walt Disney Company to resist the Ontario Superior Court’s jurisdiction in Jane Doe v. Harvey Weinstein et. al.
- the judgment creditors seeking recognition and enforcement in Ontario under the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act of U.S. judgments obtained against a foreign government for its support of terrorism
- International Human Rights Program, a human rights advocacy program at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, in connection with the representation of refugee detainees held in Canada’s immigration detention centres
- NKLP, a partnership between Batchewana First Nation and BluEarth Renewables Inc., in successfully resisting applications for judicial review brought by the Michipicoten First Nation alleging that the provincial government failed in its duty to consult prior to issuing approvals for the Bow Lake Wind Project near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
- a Canadian publisher in defense of copyright infringement action
- Thomson Reuters Canada in a copyright class action in Ontario concerning the use of lawyer-written court documents in Westlaw Canada
- Eli Lilly in a judicial review before the Federal Court under the Access of Information and Privacy Act concerning its drug TECTA® (pantoprazole magnesium), a proton pump inhibitor used to treat conditions requiring a reduction in stomach acid
- Associate Chief Justice Lori Douglas in a complaint brought before the Canadian Judicial Council
- a Canadian Schedule I bank and its investment brokerage in a proposed Ontario overtime class action concerning unpaid time
- a Canadian investment brokerage in arbitration pertaining to an alleged breach of contract by an introducing broker
- Metrolinx in defence of complaints and claims brought by residents and property owners to the Canadian Transportation Agency, the Ontario Municipal Court and to the Ontario Superior Court arising from the construction of the Georgetown South Project
- Canadian Civil Liberties Association, as an intervener, in the Supreme Court of Canada decision Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v. United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 410 regarding the constitutional balance between an individual's right to control the collection, use and disclosure of their personal information and the rights to freedom of expression as outlined in the Canadian Charter in the Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act
- Varco Canada in patent litigation against Pason Systems Corp. before the Federal Courts concerning the infringement of its automated drilling system, a system that revolutionized the Canadian market by optimizing the process for drilling directional oil and gas wells
- Husky Injection Molding Systems in the defence of wrongful dismissal claims, claims before the Ontario Ministry of Labour and proceedings before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal
- Canadian Civil Liberties Association, as an intervener, in landmark libel proceedings of Crookes v. Newton before the Supreme Court of Canada concerning whether an internet hyperlink to defamatory material constitutes publication of the material by the author
- Pfizer Canada in proceedings before the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal under the PM(NOC) Regulations concerning Pfizer’s blockbuster drug LIPITOR® (atorvastatin calcium) an anti-cholesterol drug
Professional Involvement
Sarah is an instructor at Osgoode Hall Law School’s Trial Advocacy course.
Community
Sarah is the Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic and acts as a volunteer instructor and mentor on Ontario’s Law Practice Program’s Trial Advocacy course.
Memberships And Affiliations
Sarah is a member of The Advocates' Society. She is also an instructor of the Trial Advocacy Course at Osgoode Hall
Law School and a member of the Board of Directors of Babra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic.