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Best Lawyers In Canada In 2019

Justice Murray Sinclair

Chairman, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Winnipeg, Man.  An uncommon write-in candidate winner with this season 's Top 25, Sinclair was among the record last year, making headlines in June with the release of the overview of the record of the TRC and 94 recommendations to redress the cultural genocide of Canada's residential school system. Over six years, Sinclair directed the TRC hearing the tales of over 7,000 survivors of sexual, physical, and mental abuse.  Sinclair, that had been the first aboriginal judge in Manitoba, was initially appointed to the provincial court in which he became associate leader in 1988 and then raised to the Court of Queen's Bench at 2001.  He was co-commissioner of Manitoba's Aboriginal Justice Inquiry in 1988 and presided over a 2000 inquest into the deaths of 12 infants at Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre.  Sinclair expects to complete the commission's complete report in the near future, following which he will choose whether to go back to court or retire and advocate for indigenous rights full-time.

Lorne Waldman

Waldman & Associates, Toronto, Ont. Waldman is a good guardian of refugees, immigrants, and human rights.  He has won a number of significant victories, including health care for refugees in Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care v. Canada along with a woman's best to wear the niqab whilst making her citizenship oath at Ishaq v. Canada with his partner Naseem Mithoowani.  He also argued at the Supreme Court of Canada in J.P. v. Canada and G.J. v. Canada, that Canada's anti-human smuggling provisions should consist of asylum seekers engaging in mutual assistance.  Along with Peter Edelmann, he acted on behalf of the CBA in the Harkat case prior to the SCC at 2014.  On the global stage, he symbolizes Mohamed Fahmy (along with Amal Clooney), the Canadian journalist working for Al Jazeera.  He has also been a vocal opponent of Bill C-51 and changes to Canada's citizenship legislation. What Republicans needed to say: Lorne educated us all, particularly now, to preserve democracy and to preserve the rule of law.

Rocco Galati

Rocco Galati Law Firm PC, Toronto, Ont.  Rocco Galati is famous for being a one-man resistance to the current authorities, so much spending $42,000 of his money on court challenges.  He launched a case that blocked Stephen Harper's appointment of Justice Marc Nadon into the Supreme Court of Canada.  His resistance to the appointment of Federal Court of Appeal Justice Robert Mainville to the Quebec Court of Appeal was not as successful.  While he doesn't always win, Galati is dogged in his own attempts to defend the Constitution against a government he sees pushing the boundaries with too little respect to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  He's now also been elected because bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and it will be interesting to see exactly what he brings to the regulation of this profession.What voters needed to say: An authentic Canadian constitutional and individual rights enthusiast.

Pascale Fournier

Professor & study chair, legal pluralism and comparative legislation, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Ottawa, Ont. Fournier has attained international recognition for her groundbreaking work on sex, religion, and the legislation, using fieldwork interviews with women from several countries to emphasize the complex interplay between spiritual and secular law.  She has received numerous national and global awards and nominations in 2014.  Fournier became a fellow of the prestigious International Women's Forum because of her role as a pioneer in the legal profession; receiving the Canada-Arab Chamber of Commerce Award for academic excellence and contribution to humanity.  Fournier represented the University of Ottawa as an effective leader in the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference and has been appointed by the National Assembly of Quebec into the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission. What voters had to say: Outstanding mind, according [to] Harvard's Prof. Kennedy.

Justice Ian Nordheimer

Judge, Ontario Supreme Court, Toronto, Ont.  Nordheimer's name is becoming synonymous with class actions suits mostly because of his ruling, which overturned Justice Edward Belobaba's conclusion in a high-profile situation on carriage at the Barrick Gold class action lawsuit.  Nordheimer given the losing coalition of law firms leave to appeal Belobaba's decision in the Divisional Court.  He is probably the strongest Superior Court level judge in the country using a decade on the bench and produces perhaps the greatest number of comprehensive judgments every year in comparison to any trial level estimate.  He's known for his quick wit and sharp conclusions.  In the last year, Nordheimer has made a significant splash in the legal community by upholding a professional discipline penalty for present LSUC bencher Joe Groia and releasing data which demonstrated Rob Ford was the subject of a police investigation.What that the panel had to say: He is the kind of judge who must be about the Court of Appeal... or higher.  A judge of complete integrity.

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