Judicial Inquiries and Inquests

Representative Work

• Inquiry Counsel to The Honourable Mr. Justice Herman J. Wilton-Siegel who was appointed Commissioner of the City of Hamilton’s Red Hill Valley Parkway Inquiry in May 2019.
• Linda Rothstein and Denise Cooney represented the College of Nurses of Ontario in The Long-Term Care Homes Public Inquiry, ordered as a result of Elizabeth Wettlaufer’s conviction of eight counts of first degree murder, four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault, offences she committed while working as a registered nurse in Long-Term Care Homes.
• Chris Paliare, Linda Rothstein and Karen Jones represented the College of Chiropractors of Ontario in the coroner’s inquest into the death of Lana Dale Lewis.
• Linda Rothstein and Jean-Claude Killey represented a developer at the Mississauga Judicial Inquiry, which inquired into a failed agreement between private parties to purchase land in Mississauga’s City Centre for the purpose of building a luxury hotel and conference centre, the subsequent purchase of the same land by the City of Mississauga for the purpose of constructing a Sheridan College campus, and the relationship of Mayor Hazel McCallion to the various parties involved.
• Ian Roland, Don Eady and Rob Centa represented OPSEU and certain of its members at the Walkerton Inquiry.
• Linda Rothstein and Rob Centa acted as commission counsel, assisting Commissioner, the Honourable Mr. Justice Stephen Goudge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario at the Pediatric Forensic Pathology Inquiry into the oversight of Ontario’s pediatric forensic pathology system, including the work of Dr. Charles Smith.
• Ian Roland and Karen Jones, represented the Ontario Provincial Police Association and its members at the Ipperwash Inquiry. More than 30 OPPA members were called as witnesses to testify at the Inquiry.
• Linda Rothstein, Gordon Capern, Lily Harmer, Andrew Lewis and Rob Centa acted as counsel to the City of Toronto at the Toronto Computer Leasing Inquiry, into all aspects of leasing contracts and related software between the City of Toronto and MFP Financial Services and Oracle, and the Toronto External Contracts Inquiry, into certain other external contracts entered into by the City of Toronto.