Edward (Ted) Marrocco

Clients come to Ted for his ability to help them out of difficult or sensitive situations. He acts on commercial and civil disputes, professional discipline matters, coroner’s inquests, and public inquiries. In 2024, Benchmark named Ted one of the Top 50 Trial Lawyers in Canada.

As counsel, Ted has a unique combination of courtroom and tech skill. He is regularly retained to assist with matters involving computer-based evidence including social media evidence and electronic data privacy.  In 2022, Ted was counsel on the Continental Bank case where a complex computer forensic investigation resulted in the permanent stay of an $80 million dollar commercial action. This decision was recognized with an award as a National Impact Case and upheld by the Ontario Court of Appeal. It is currently a leading authority on the law of abuse of process.

In addition to his commercial work, Ted has a well established public and regulatory law practice. In late 2023, Ted acted for the family of Soleiman Faqiri at the landmark coroner’s inquest into Soleiman’s death at the hands of correctional staff at the Central East Correctional Centre. In 2019, he was lead counsel for an organization with standing at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. In 2016, he successfully represented a collective of police parties at the highly publicized Seven Fallen Feathers inquest in the City of Thunder Bay. Ted was also one of four lawyers at Stockwoods designated by the Chief of the Toronto Police Service to prosecute the Service’s discipline hearings arising out of the events of the 2010 G20 Summit. In that role, he prosecuted dozens of cases of alleged unlawful arrest including the successful regulatory prosecution of the Toronto Police Service Superintendent who ordered the mass arrest or “kettling” of hundreds of individuals in downtown Toronto during the G20 weekend.

Ted is a co-author of Digital Privacy: Criminal, Civil and Regulatory Litigation (LexisNexis, 2018) and has published articles in many international publications including the Law and Financial Markets Review (UK), the Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice and ACAMS Today. He has been a presenter for The Advocates’ Society, the Law Society of Ontario, the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations, the Ontario Crown Attorneys Association and The Canadian Institute.

• Continental Bank v. Continental Currency  Exchange 2024 ONSC 5287
  Successfully resisted a motion to lift a stay proceedings brought by parties found in possession of confidential materials belonging to their opponents in an ongoing commercial litigation matter.
• Re: Soleiman Faqiri (2023)
  Counsel for the family of Soleiman Faqiri as parties with standing at the inquest into Soleiman’s 2016 death at the hands of prison guards at the Central East Correctional Centre. This was a landmark inquest in which the jury returned a homicide verdict and directed 57 systemic recommendations to the province of Ontario to expedite reform in corrections and prevent future deaths.
• Re: Moses Beaver (2023)
  Lead counsel for Ornge air ambulance at the inquest into the death of prominent Oji-Cree artist Moses Beaver. Among the jury’s 63 recommendations to strengthen mental health crisis support in remote communities was a request directed to the Ministry of Health to increase funding to Ornge for expansion of Ornge’s dedicated mental health transport program.
• Continental Bank of Canada v. Continental Currency Exchange Canada Ltd. 2022 ONSC 647 (aff’d 2023 ONCA 61)
  Successfully obtained a permanent stay of proceedings for the defendants in a complex commercial litigation matter arising out of a venture to create a new chartered bank in Canada.
• National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls [MMIWG] (2017-2019)
  Counsel for a municipal police service with standing at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
• Re: Raposo (2019)
  Counsel for a commercial party with standing at a Coroner’s inquest into a construction site fatality in downtown Toronto.
• Ontario College of Pharmacists v. Khalil, 2018 ONCPDC 34 (aff’d 2019 ONSC 3738)
  Successfully prosecuted a member of the Ontario College of Pharmacists for ODB billing fraud. This case confirms the power of the College to impose ownership and directorship restrictions in respect of pharmacy corporations upon a finding of professional misconduct.
• Andersson v. Aquino, 2018 ONSC 743
  Counsel for one of two co-defendants in a complex commercial shareholder dispute in which the defendants successfully moved to have the plaintiff found in contempt.
• Re: Anderson [Seven Fallen Feathers Inquest] (2016)
  Counsel for the Thunder Bay Police Service, Chief of Police, Deputy Chief of Police, Former Chief of Police and the Thunder Bay Police Services Board at a joint Coroner’s inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations youths in the city of Thunder Bay.  The inquest was one of the longest in Ontario’s  history.  After more than seven months of evidence from more than 140 witnesses, the jury issued verdicts and recommendations consistent with the police positions in all seven cases.
• Toronto Police Service v. Supt. Mark Fenton (2015)
  Successfully prosecuted a Superintendent of the Toronto Police Service for ordering the mass arrest of multiple groups of civilians during the 2010 G20 summit.
• G20 Prosecutions (2013)-(2014)
  Successfully prosecuted multiple disciplinary hearings convened pursuant to the Police Services Act alleging the unlawful arrest of civilians during the weekend of the 2010 G20 summit.
• Toronto Police Service v. Steven Izzett (2013)
  Successfully prosecuted a high profile police disciplinary matter involving multiple counts of misconduct by a senior officer of the Toronto Police Service.
• R. v. Nedelcu [2012] 3 S.C.R. 311
  Co-counsel in the representation of an intervener before the Supreme Court of Canada.
• R v. JTI-Macdonald Corp. (2006-2010)
  Part of the litigation defence team that successfully resolved a multi-billion dollar corporate criminal prosecution against a Canadian tobacco manufacturer. This case remains one of the largest corporate criminal settlements completed in Canada.
• IN THE MATTER OF AN INQUIRY COMMITTEE CONSTITUTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 63 OF THE JUDGES ACT R.S.C. 1985, as amended, into the conduct of the Honourable Theodore Matlow of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, (July 21, 2008)
  Supported presenting counsel at a special meeting of the Canadian Judicial Council.
• IN THE MATTER OF A HEARING ORDERED UNDER SECTION 11(15) OF THE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE ACT, R.S.O. 1990, c. J.4, as amended, Respecting the Conduct of Justice of the Peace Jorge Barroilhet, Justice of the Peace in the Toronto Region (February 28, 2008).
  Supported presenting counsel at a hearing involving complaints and allegations of judicial misconduct made against a Toronto Justice of the Peace.