Administrative and Public Law
Our lawyers are widely regarded as the leading practitioners in administrative and public law, having acted in some the most significant, high-stakes mandates in the country. We have a broad and deep expertise litigating cases across a range of sectors, including health care, legal professions, and financial services. We have acted for and against provincial and federal governments, as well as a range of regulators (e.g., Ontario Securities Commission, Law Society of Ontario, Financial Services Regulatory Authority). We have prosecuted and defended professional disciplinary matters (including those involving judicial misconduct), and we regularly provide independent advice to a range of administrative tribunals (especially in the regulation of healthcare professionals). We also regularly appear before all levels of court (up to the Supreme Court of Canada) in precedent setting cases, including constitutional law matters of national importance.
Practice Areas
Commissions of inquiry
Constitutional law
Coroners’ inquests
Health law
Indigenous rights
Judicial misconduct cases
Judicial reviews
Professional discipline
Supreme Court of Canada Interventions
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Representative Work
Acting for seven young people in a landmark constitutional case against the Province of Ontario over its climate change policies: Mathur v. Ontario, 2024 ONCA 762.
Acting for the Alberta Utilities Commission in an enforcement application against a major Alberta transmission utility.
Acting for The Neighbourhood Group Community Services in a constitutional challenge to the Community Care and Recovery Act, which prohibits supervised consumption sites from operating within 200m of schools or childcare centres: The Neighbourhood Group et al. v. HMKRO, 2025 ONSC 1934.
Acting for Animal Justice in a constitutional challenge to the Security from Trespass and Protecting Food Safety Act, which created new legal hurdles to protesting outside animal transport trucks and engaging undercover exposés inside farms and slaughterhouses.
Presented the case against former Regional Senior Justice Paul Currie before the Ontario Judicial Council
Acted for Ornge Air Ambulance in a coroner’s inquest into the deaths of five First Nations individuals in a northern Ontario community called Constance Lake.
Acted for seven First Nations in a 68-day trial of the past compensation (damages) phase of the trial in Red Rock First Nation et al. v. Attorney General of Canada et al.
Acted for the Prime Minister and Government of Canada in the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference.
Acted for the Prime Minister and Government of Canada in the Public Order Emergency Commission.
Acted for former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Russell Brown before the Canadian Judicial Council.
Acted for a policing organization at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls(MMIWG).
Acted for various civil liberties and public interest organizations before the Supreme Court of Canada, including in Dorsey v. Canada (Attorney General), 2025 SCC 38, Quebec (Attorney General) v. Senneville, 2025 SCC 33, v. Kloubakov, 2025 SCC 25, R. v. Campbell, 2024 SCC 42, Poonian v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2024 SCC 28, and York Region District School Board v. Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, 2024 SCC 22.
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Recognition
Chambers Canada, Administrative & Public Law, Band 1 (Stockwoods)
Chambers Canada, Administrative & Public Law, Eminent Practitioners (Luisa Ritacca)
Chambers Canada, Administrative & Public Law, Band 1 (Brian Gover)
Chambers Canada, Administrative & Public Law, Band 2 (Andrea Gonsalves)
Chambers Canada, Administrative & Public Law, Band 3 (Brendan van Niejenhuis)
Lexpert, Litigation – Regulatory & Public Law, “Most Frequently Recommended” (Brian Gover, Gerald Chan)
Lexpert, Litigation – Regulatory & Public Law, “Consistently Recommended” (Luisa Ritacca, Andrea Gonsalves, Nader Hasan, Fredrick Schumann, Justin Safayeni, Stephen Aylward)
Lexpert, Litigation – Regulatory & Public Law, “Repeatedly Recommended” (Paul Le Vay, Brendan van Niejenhuis, Edward (Ted) Marrocco)
Best Lawyers, Administrative and Public Law, Lawyer of the Year, 2026 (Brian Gover)
Best Lawyers, Administrative and Public Law (Brian Gover, Paul Le Vay, Luisa Ritacca, Brendan van Niejenhuis, Andrea Gonsalves, Nader Hasan, Gerald Chan, Edward (Ted) Marrocco, Justin Safayeni, Fredrick Schumann, Carlo Di Carlo, Stephen Aylward, Daniel Goudge)
Benchmark Litigation, Administrative (Luisa Ritacca, Andrea Gonsalves, Edward (Ted) Marrocco, Justin Safayeni)
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