Bio
Peter-Paul has an extensive civil and commercial litigation and arbitration practice. He has successfully appeared before trial and appellate Courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada in actions, applications, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations.
He has been involved in proceedings relating to construction, defamation including internet and electronic publication, disciplinary prosecution and enforcement, insurance, professional negligence, real estate conveyancing, development and leasing, trusts, wills and estates, mining, receivership, bankruptcy and insolvency, partnership, joint venture and shareholder disputes, and securities related proceedings.
Peter-Paul has represented individuals, partnerships, trusts, private companies, public companies and not for profit corporations before Courts, Boards and Commissions, and Arbitral Tribunals, both domestic and abroad.
Memberships
- Law Society of Ontario
- Canadian Bar Association
- The Advocates Society
- Repeat instructor, Ontario Bar Admission Course, Civil Litigation, and Debtor’s and Creditor’s Rights
- Alpine Ontario Alpin
- Board Member from February 2013,
- Chair from August 2013
- Not for Profit Corporation, Designated Provincial Sport Organization for Ontario Alpine Skiing and Ontario member of Alpine Canada Alpin
- Royal Canadian Yacht Club
- Georgian Peaks Ski Club
- Kappa Alpha Society
- Director, Public and Private Companies
- M. C.I. Arb.
Representative Work
SUPREME COURT OF CANADA
- Schenck v. Ontario; Rokeby v. Ontario, 1987 CanLII 21 (SCC), [1987] 2 SCR 289
- R. v. Fitzgibbon, 1990 CanLII 102 (SCC), [1990] 1 SCR 1005
- Crystalline Investments Ltd. v. Domgroup Ltd., 2004 SCC 3 (CanLII), [2004] 1 SCR 60
APPELLATE COURTS
- Hoskin v. Price Waterhouse Ltd., 1982 CanLII 3282 (ON SCDC)
- Schenck et al. v. The Queen in right of Ontario; Rokeby v. The Queen in right of Ontario, 1984 CanLII 1950 (ON CA)
- Ontario Securities Commission v. Crownbridge Industries Inc. (Ont. C.A.), 1989 CanLII 4389 (ON CA)
- Ontario Securities Commission v. Caratel Ltd., 1993 CanLII 8597 (ON CA)
- R. v. Caratel Ltd., 1993 CanLII 9416 (ON CA)
- Automatic Systems Inc. v. E.S. Fox Ltd., 1994 CanLII 1857 (ON CA)
- Automatic Systems Inc. v. Bracknell Corp., 1994 CanLII 1871 (ON CA)
- Automatic Systems Inc. v. E.S. Fox Ltd., 1994 CanLII 3361 (ON CA)
- Computer Junction Ltd. v. Jaba System Inc., 1995 CanLII 1531 (ON CA)
- Automatic Systems Inc. v. E.S. Fox Ltd., 1996 CanLII 1258 (ON CA)
- Dr. Nash v. CIBC Trust Corporation, 1999 CanLII 1728 (ON CA)
- Glimmer Resources Inc. v. Exall Resources Limited, 1999 CanLII 1102 (ON CA)
- Movado Group of Canada, Inc. v. Royal de Versailles Jewellers Inc., 2006 CanLII 1760 (ON CA)
- Szijarto v. Densham, 2007 ONCA 747 (CanLII)
- Iroquois Falls Power Corp. v. Jacobs Canada Inc., 2008 ONCA 398 (CanLII)
- Bot Construction v HMQ 2009 ONCA 879
- Barkwill v. Canada, 2013 FCA 34 (CanLII)
- The Birkshire Group Inc. v. Wilkes, 2018 ONCA 631 (CanLII)
SUPERIOR COURT
- Schenck et al. v. The Queen in right of Ontario; Rokeby v. The Queen in right of Ontario, 1981 CanLII 1797 (ON SC)
- Schenk v. Ontario, 1981 CanLII 2919 (ON SC)
- Movado Group of Canada Inc. v. Royal de Versailles Jewellers Inc., 2005 CanLII 6398 (ON SC)
- Movado Group of Canada Inc. v. Royal de Versailles Jewellers Inc., 2005 CanLII 18850 (ON SC)
- Szijarto v. Densham, 2006 CanLII 36495 (ON SC)
- Coronation Minerals Inc. v. Guyana Goldfields Inc., 2009 CanLII 274 (ON SC)
- Frutticola SNC v. Rite-Pak Produce Co. Limited, 2009 CanLII 60089 (ON SC)
- Bot Construction v HMQ (2009) 99 O.R. (3rd) 104, 2009 CANLII 92110 Ontario Divisional Court
- Pagliaroli v. Rite-Pak Produce Co. Limited, 2010 ONSC 3729 (CanLII)
- Al-Ghabra v. Al-Ali, 2011 ONSC 5246 (CanLII)
- Domgroup Ltd. (Re), 2012 ONSC 7042 (CanLII)
- Tibollo Professional Corporation v. Wasserman Associates and Uribe, 2013 ONSC 2685 (CanLII)
- Muskrat Falls Corporation v. Astaldi Canada Inc., 2018 NLSC 210 (CanLII)
- Isenberg v. Erem, 2019 ONSC 5944 (CanLII)
- Isenberg v. Erem, 2020 ONSC 444 (CanLII)
- Schindler Elevator Corporation v. Walsh Construction Company of Canada, 2019 ONSC 7392 (CanLII)
- Schindler Elevator Corporation v. Walsh Construction Company of Canada, 2020 ONSC 252 (CanLII)
- Schindler Elevator Corporation v. Walsh Construction Company of Canada, 2021 ONSC 283 (CanLII)
- Schindler Elevator Corporation v. Walsh Construction Company of Canada, 2020 ONSC 433 (CanLII)
- Leitch v. Global Atomic Corporation, 2021 ONSC 6745 (CanLII)
- Nova Concrete Inc, v 2035211 Ontario Inc., Ont 2022 ONSC 2391 (CanLII)
Confidential arbitrations, both domestic and international, seated in North America and Europe.
Education & Admissions
Accreditations
- Law Society of Ontario, Certified Specialist in Civil Litigation, 1994