Edward (Ted) Marrocco

Clients turn to Ted when facing difficult or sensitive legal disputes. He is a recognized Toronto trial lawyer with a practice spanning commercial litigation, civil disputes, professional discipline, coroner’s inquests, and public inquiries. In both 2024 and 2025, Benchmark Litigation named him among the Top 50 Trial Lawyers in Canada.

Commercial & Technology-Driven Litigation
Ted combines courtroom advocacy with deep technical expertise. He is frequently retained in technology-driven cases, including matters involving computer-based evidence, social media records, and electronic data privacy. In the landmark Continental Bank case (2022), Ted and Stockwoods co-counsel relied on a comprehensive computer forensic investigation to obtain the permanent stay of an $80 million commercial action. The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the decision, which is now a leading authority on abuse of process and was recognized by Benchmark as a National Impact Case in 2023.

Public & Regulatory Advocacy
Ted is also recognized for his public law and regulatory work. In 2023, he represented the family of Soleiman Faqiri at the high-profile coroner’s inquest into Soleiman’s death in custody. That case shaped a widely publicized national debate on corrections oversight. In 2019, Ted was lead counsel for a policing organization before the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. In 2016, he acted at the Seven Fallen Feathers Inquest in Thunder Bay, successfully representing a coalition of police parties. Earlier in his career, Ted was one of four Stockwoods lawyers designated to prosecute Toronto Police Service discipline hearings arising from the 2010 G20 Summit, including the successful prosecution of a superintendent responsible for mass unlawful arrests or “kettling” of civilians in downtown Toronto.

Publications & Speaking
Ted is co-author of Digital Privacy: Criminal, Civil and Regulatory Litigation (LexisNexis, 2018). He has contributed to the Law and Financial Markets Review (UK), the Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice, and ACAMS Today. As a speaker, Ted has presented for The Advocates’ Society, the Law Society of Ontario, the Canadian Bar Association, and The Canadian Institute.

• Aslam v. Ontario College of Pharmacists, 2025 ONSC 3070 (Divisional Court)
  Successfully represented the Ontario College of Pharmacists in responding to an application for judicial review.
• 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.