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Carlos Martins
Partner
Daniel Ferguson
Partner
Sean Foran
Partner
Andrew MacDonald
Partner
Ralph Kroman
Partner
Emma Romano
Associate
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian Transportation Agency hearings
- Certificates of fitness
- Class actions (defence)
- Compliance
- Customs
- Environmental requirements
- Equipment leasing
- Insurance
- International trade
- Interswitching rates
- Labour and employment law
- Licences
- Litigation
- Permits
- Product liability
- Product recalls
- Renewable fuel requirements
- Safety
- Transportation contracts
Representative Experience
- We act for air carriers and the general aviation community (and their respective insurers) in commercial and liability claims, including: Passenger injury claims; Lost, delayed, damaged baggage and/or cargo; Transportation of inadmissible passengers into Canada; and Commercial claims as between aviation industry participants.
- We act for air carriers in complaints before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and the Canadian Transportation Agency, including complaints relating to: Presence of kirpans (Sikh ceremonial daggers) in the cockpit of an aircraft; Carriage of obese passengers; Carriage of passenger requiring a medical attendant for travel; Carriage of passengers who require a stretcher; Accessibility requirements of passengers in the airport terminal; and Loss, damage and/or pilferage of checked baggage
- We have acted for dozens of trucking companies, including two of Canada’s top 10 largest for-hire carriers. We also act for a number of bus companies, including one of Canada’s two largest national bus companies.
- For both our trucking and bus clients, we protect their ability to operate by keeping their CVOR (Commercial Vehicle Operator’s Registration), which is, in effect, their licence to carry on business, in good standing. In addition, bus companies require an operating licence under the Public Vehicles Act.
- We have acted on many of the leading cases involving the trucking and bussing industry before the Licence Appeal Tribunal, Public Vehicles Act, and the Ontario Highway Transport Board.
- Cases in which we have been engaged have shaped the test the Registrar of Motor Vehicles must meet for the Tribunal to uphold a proposed CVOR suspension. Don Hislop Trucking Ltd. v. Registrar of Motor Vehicles (October 28, 2004) and Thistletown Motor Freight (2003) Inc. v. Registrar of Motor Vehicles, [2006] O.L.A.T.D. No. 580. We have also argued the leading case on absolute versus strict liability offences and the defence of due diligence in the regulatory context. R. v. Transport Robert (1973) Ltée (2003), 68 O.R. (3d) 51 (C.A.).
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