John helps clients solve their business and personal disputes:
- Corporate and Commercial Litigation - Business partner and shareholder disputes, breach of contract, environmental contamination disputes, franchise disputes, debt collection, commercial tenancy disputes, construction disputes, real estate disputes, product liability, bankruptcy and receiverships
- Estate Litigation - Disputes between heirs/beneficiaries and executors/estate trustees
- Family Litigation – Disputes between spouses (who are often also business partners)
- Sports law - representing amateur hockey and soccer associations from the local to the national level, as well as athletes regarding internal governance, discipline and dispute resolution
John helps clients resolve their disputes in a variety of ways:
- Going to court, private arbitrations and other tribunals
- Negotiation
- Mediation
John’s court and tribunal experience:
- Supreme Court of Canada
- Ontario Court of Appeal and Superior Court
- Administrative tribunals and private arbitrations
Other types of matters John helps his clients with:
- Appeals – John has developed a reputation as being among the most knowledgeable lawyers in Ontario regarding the Ontario Court of Appeal
- Professional Negligence and Discipline – accountants, lawyers, engineers, real estate agents, financial advisors, insurance brokers, dental hygienists and others
- Defamation and Breach of Privacy
- Enforcing Foreign Judgments
- Injunctions and other Extraordinary Remedies
John is the editor of the firm’s Commercial Litigation Update newsletter and a blog entitled “Blaneys Appeals”, which is dedicated to summarizing all civil law decisions released by the Court of Appeal for Ontario on a weekly basis. The blog receives several thousand reads a month and is circulated widely through various legal information media, including Mondaq, Lexology, CanLii and the OBA website.