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
- 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
- Family Litigation – Corporate divorce between spouses (when their business and marriage partnership both dissolve)
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.