Mark Sandler and Jonathan Shime were listed among the top criminal defence lawyers in Toronto by Doyle’s Guide, Leading Criminal Lawyers – Toronto 2021 The 2021 Doyle’s Guide is a listing of the Toronto’s most distinguished Criminal Lawyers practising in the areas of Criminal Defence Law, White Collar Offences and Regulatory matters within the GTA.[…]

Jonathan Shime and Amanda Ross of Cooper, Sandler, Shime & Bergman LLP will be appearing at the Supreme Court of Canada on December 8, 2014 as counsel for the interveners, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario, and the Coalition des organismes communautaires québécois de lute contre le SIDA in the case R.[…]

Jonathan Shime, partner at Cooper, Sandler, Shime & Bergman LLP, and counsel to the interveners, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario, in the case of R. v. Hutchinson, 2014 SCC 19, appeared on CTV News to discuss the significance of the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision with respect to sexual[…]

On December 20, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in the case of R. v. Bedford, 2013 SCC 72. The unanimous judgment was written by the Right Honourable Madam Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, and held that several provisions in the Criminal Code relating to prostitution were inconsistent with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms such that they infringe the s.[…]

Grant and Suberu: The Supreme Court’s Synthesis of the Law of Detention and Search Incident to Investigative Detention Published: February 05, 2011 Grant and Suberu: The Supreme Court’s Synthesis of the Law of Detention and Search Incident to Investigative Detention. Written By: Scott Bergman and Corie Langdon[1]for OBA Institute 2011 “A materially refreshed analytical lens is to[…]

The Attorney General required the accused in a lengthy and complex fraud trial to be tried by a judge and jury in the Superior Court, despite the election of all accused to be tried by a Provincial Court judge (that is, in the lower court). The Attorney General relied on his powers under s.568 of the Criminal[…]