Andrew MacDonald
Partner
Experience
Speaking Engagements
Panel member, “Anti-SLAPP – Court of Appeal Weighs in” at Canadian Media Lawyers’ Association Annual Conference, Toronto, 2019
Panel member, “Global Regulatory Update – Are governments building a “cathedral” of air transport regulation?”, 12th Annual McGill Conference on International Aviation Liability, Insurance & Finance, Montréal, 2019
Speaker, Anti-SLAPP Update at Law Society of Ontario’s “Civil Appeals: The Year in Review, 2018”, Toronto, 2018
Speaker, Pleading Requirements at Law Society of Ontario’s “Defamation at a Crossroads: Trends and Developments”, Toronto, 2018
Speaker, “Flying cameras and the privacy (& property) concerns they raise” presentation for OBA Entertainment, Media and Communications Law Program “Navigating Drone Use in Media Production”, Toronto, 2017
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Publications
- Co-author (with Shantona Chaudhury), “Balancing the Public Interest in Expression and the Right to Sue: How Much Protection Should Anti-SLAPP Laws Provide?” in Todd L. Archibald, ed., Annual Review of Civil Litigation, 2019 (Toronto: Thomson Reuters, 2019)
- “The Court of Appeal (Finally) Has its Say on Anti-SLAPP Legislation” paper for presentation by A.W. MacDonald & B. MacLeod Rogers at Law Society of Ontario’s “Civil Appeals: The Year in Review, 2018”
- “Pleading for Clarity: A Flexible Approach to the Strict Requirements for Defamation Pleadings” paper for presentation at Law Society of Ontario’s “Defamation at a Crossroads: Trends and Developments”, 2018
- Co-author (with Shantona Chaudhury), “Teach a Fish to argue…”, Book Review, co-author with S. Chaudhury, The Advocates’ Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1, Summer 2017
- Co-author (with Carlos Martins), “Aviation” chapter in Bullen & Leake, Canadian Precedents of Pleadings, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Thomson Reuters Canada, 2017)
- Co-author (with Peter Jacobsen), “Bill C-51 Would Jeopardize the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms”, CJFE & Huffington Post Canada, April 18, 2015