Meet our lawyers and professionals in this area
John Wilkinson
Partner
Macdonald Allen
Partner
Alyssa Armstrong
Associate
Abby Benattar
Associate
Jeff Cowan
Counsel
Lisa Danay Wallace
Partner
Jill Dougherty
Partner
Albert Formosa
Partner
Vipal Jain
Associate
James G. Kosa
Partner
Kristen Robertson
Associate
Agatha Suszek
Associate
Alexandra Wilbee
Partner
Thomas Wong
Partner
Sarah Yun
Partner
Areas of Expertise
- Access to Information requests
- Best practices
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) advice
- Compliance
- Data breaches
- Due diligence
- Information governance
- Insurance
- Litigation
- Privacy and security policies
- Regulatory submissions
Representative Experience
- Acted for the LCBO in a series of judicial review applications, appeals and reconsiderations of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) decisions relating to the ability of the LCBO to collect personal information regarding wine club members placing orders (through clubs) with the LCBO. WeirFoulds was successful (on judicial review and in resisting a motion for leave to appeal) in quashing (on procedural fairness grounds) the IPC’s Order requiring the LCBO to cease collecting and to destroy the personal information in question. The IPC’s subsequent reconsideration decision was upheld on judicial review, and we have been acting for the LCBO in liaising with the IPC to agree upon the steps to be taken by the LCBO to implement the IPC’s order.
- Acted on the leading case in Canada on electronic discovery. Air Canada v. WestJet Airlines Ltd.(2006), 267 D.L.R. (4th) 483 (Ont. S.C.J.).
- Advising on access requests on an ongoing basis. Representing a client in adjudication before the Information and Privacy Commissioner of access appeal involving confidential third party information and mediation involving access to compensation information.
- Provided a legal opinion to an international entity regarding the scope of CASL to its operations including whether certain electronic communications constitute “commercial electronic messages”.
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