On April 15, 2021, the Independent Civilian Review of Missing Person Investigations in Toronto released its final Report. Judge Gloria Epstein was the Independent Reviewer. Mark Sandler, the firm’s senior partner was lead counsel to the Review. Three of the firm’s lawyers, partner Megan Schwartzentruber, associates Amanda Ross and Nazampal Jaswal and articling student Alefia[…]

Sandler, Shime & Bergman LLP is pleased to announce that Mark J. Sandler was awarded with the prestigious Best Lawyers award in the category of Criminal Defence Lawyers Ontario.

The firm is proud to recognize its senior partner, Mark Sandler, who will be this year’s recipient of the G. Arthur Martin Criminal Justice Medal for his outstanding contributions to criminal justice. G. Arthur Martin was regarded as Canada’s greatest criminal advocate before he became a leading jurist with the Ontario Court of Appeal. The[…]

Mark Sandler, partner at Cooper, Sandler, Shime & Bergman LLP, presented on April 10, 2014 to the Association of Justices of the Peace of Ontario in Niagara-on-the-Falls, Ontario on the topic of “Responding to Complaints before the Justices of the Peace Review Council”.

In July 2013, Mark Sandler served as a faculty member at the National Criminal Law Programme for the Federation of Law Societies of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.

In October 2012, Mark Sandler served as Co-Chair for the Second Biennial Symposium on Expert Forensic Evidence in Criminal Proceedings – Osgoode Hall Law School and the Centre for Forensic Science and Medicine, University of Toronto Programme.

Paper Presented at Federation of Law Societies National Criminal Law Program, Quebec City, July, 2011, Section L.2 Author: Mark J. Sandler Nature of the Duty Section 10(b) of the Charter provides that everyone has the right on arrest or detention to retain and instruct counsel without delay and to be informed of that right. The language[…]

My past two terms as an elected Bencher have been challenging and rewarding. I have worked very hard as a Bencher: for example, in 2010 alone, I was engaged in Bencher work on 111 days. I believe that my experience as a Bencher (particularly as Chair of the Appeal Panel, Chair of the Tribunals Committee and[…]

Paper Presented At Federation of Law Societies National Criminal Law Program St. John’s Nfld., July, 2010, Section 0.1 Author: Mark J. Sandler Organizations, and most significantly corporations, act or omit to act through their officers, directors, agents and employees. Not surprisingly, jurisprudence exists on when such organizations bear criminal or regulatory liability under either the Criminal Code or other[…]

Paper Presented at Federation of Law Societies National Criminal Law Program Victoria, British Columbia July, 2009, SECTION 6.2 Author: Mark J. Sandler Introduction It is well recognized that inaccurate eyewitness identification evidence is a systemic cause – perhaps the leading cause – of wrongful convictions. Eyewitnesses frequently “get it wrong.” This reflects not only the inherent[…]

Paper Presented at Federation of Law Societies National Criminal Law Program Edmonton, Alberta July, 2007 – SECTION 17.1 Author: Mark J. Sandler It is beyond dispute that a lawyer has a duty of confidentiality to the client. However, the breadth of the duty, and exceptions to it, are more contentious. This paper briefly examines the parameters[…]