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34788
Attorney General of Canada, et al. v. Terri Jean Bedford, et al.
(Ontario) (Criminal) (By Leave)
(Sealing order)
Party: Attorney General of Canada
- Counsel
- Michael H. Morris
Gail Sinclair
Nancy Dennison - Address
- Attorney General of Canada
The Exchange Tower
130 King Street West, Suite 3400
Toronto, Ontario
M5X 1K6
Telephone: (416) 973-9704
FAX: (416) 952-4518
- Agent
- Christopher M. Rupar
- Address
- Attorney General of Canada
Bank of Canada Building - East Tower
234 Wellington Street, Room 1212
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0H8
Telephone: (613) 941-2351
FAX: (613) 954-1920
E-mail: christopher.rupar@justice.gc.ca
Party: Attorney General of Ontario
- Counsel
- Jamie C. Klukach
Christine E. Bartlett-Hughes
Megan Stephens - Address
- Attorney General of Ontario
720 Bay St
10th Floor
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 2K1
Telephone: (416) 326-4600
FAX: (416) 326-4656
E-mail: jamie.klukach@ontario.ca
- Agent
- Robert E. Houston, Q.C.
- Address
- Burke-Robertson
441 MacLaren Street
Suite 200
Ottawa, Ontario
K2P 2H3
Telephone: (613) 236-9665
FAX: (613) 235-4430
E-mail: rhouston@burkerobertson.com
Party: Bedford, Terri Jean
- Counsel
- Alan Young
- Address
- Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
4700 Keele Street
North York, Ontario
M3J 1P3
Telephone: (416) 736-5595
FAX: (416) 736-5736
E-mail: AYoung@osgoode.yorku.ca
- Agent
- Fiona Campbell
- Address
- Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP
500 - 30 Metcalfe Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5L4
Telephone: (613) 235-5327 Ext: 2451
FAX: (613) 235-3041
E-mail: fionacampbell@sgmlaw.com
Party: Lebovitch, Amy
- Counsel
- Yaron Marzel
Stacey Nichols - Address
- Marzel Law
265 Rimrock Road, Suiite 200
Toronto, Ontario
M3J 3C6
Telephone: (416) 485-5800 Ext: 233
FAX: (416) 485-1610
E-mail: marzel@lernermarzel.com
- Agent
- Fiona Campbell
- Address
- Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP
500 - 30 Metcalfe Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5L4
Telephone: (613) 235-5327 Ext: 2451
FAX: (613) 235-3041
E-mail: fionacampbell@sgmlaw.com
Party: Scott, Valerie
- Counsel
- Marlys A. Edwardh
Daniel Sheppard - Address
- Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP
1100 - 20 Dundas St. W.
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 2G8
Telephone: (416) 979-4380
FAX: (416) 979-4430
E-mail: medwardh@sgmlaw.com
- Agent
- Fiona Campbell
- Address
- Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP
500 - 30 Metcalfe Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5L4
Telephone: (613) 235-5327 Ext: 2451
FAX: (613) 235-3041
E-mail: fionacampbell@sgmlaw.com
Party: British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
- Counsel
- Brent B. Olthuis
Megan Vis-Dunbar
Stephanie McHugh - Address
- Hunter Litigation Chambers Law Corporation
1040 West Georgia Street
Suite 2100
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6E 4H1
Telephone: (604) 891-2400
FAX: (604) 647-4554
E-mail: bolthuis@litigationchambers.com
- Agent
- Michael J. Sobkin
- Address
- 90 blvd. de Lucerne
Unit #2
Gatineau, Quebec
J9H 7K8
Telephone: (819) 778-7794
FAX: (819) 778-1740
E-mail: msobkin@sympatico.ca
Party: Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres
- Counsel
- Fay Faraday
Janine Benedet - Address
- 860 Manning Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
M6G 2W8
Telephone: (416) 389-4399
FAX: (647) 776-3147
E-mail: fay.faraday@faradaylaw.com
- Agent
- Nadia Effendi
- Address
- Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
World Exchange Plaza
100 Queen Street, suite 1100
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 1J9
Telephone: (613) 237-5160
FAX: (613) 230-8842
Party: Native Women's Association of Canada, Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, Action ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes, Concertation des luttes contre l'exploitation sexuelle
- Counsel
- Fay Faraday
Janine Benedet - Address
- 860 Manning Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
M6G 2W8
Telephone: (416) 389-4399
FAX: (647) 776-3147
E-mail: fay.faraday@faradaylaw.com
- Agent
- Nadia Effendi
- Address
- Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
World Exchange Plaza
100 Queen Street, suite 1100
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 1J9
Telephone: (613) 237-5160
FAX: (613) 230-8842
Party: Regroupement québécois des centres d'aide et de lutte contre les agressions à caractère sexuel and Vancouver Rape Relief Society
- Counsel
- Fay Faraday
Janine Benedet - Address
- 860 Manning Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
M6G 2W8
Telephone: (416) 389-4399
FAX: (647) 776-3147
E-mail: fay.faraday@faradaylaw.com
- Agent
- Nadia Effendi
- Address
- Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
World Exchange Plaza
100 Queen Street, suite 1100
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 1J9
Telephone: (613) 237-5160
FAX: (613) 230-8842
Party: Canadian Civil Liberties Association
- Counsel
- Linda Rothstein
Michael Fenrick
Andrew Lokan - Address
- Paliare, Roland, Rosenberg, Rothstein, LLP
155 Wellington Street West
35th floor
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 1H1
Telephone: (416) 646-4327
FAX: (416) 646-4313
- Agent
- Brian A. Crane, Q.C.
- Address
- Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
2600 - 160 Elgin St
Box 466 Station D
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 1C3
Telephone: (613) 233-1781
FAX: (613) 563-9869
E-mail: brian.crane@gowlings.com
Party: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, B.C. Centre for Excellence on HIV/AIDS
- Counsel
- Jonathan A. Shime
Renée Lang - Address
- Cooper & Sandler
1900-439 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1Y8
Telephone: (416) 585-9191
FAX: (416) 408-2372
E-mail: jshime@criminal-lawyers.ca
Party: Christian Legal Fellowship, Catholic Civil Rights Leagues and REAL Women of Canada
- Counsel
- Robert W. Staley
Ranjan K. Agarwal
Amanda McLachlan
Russell Browne - Address
- Bennett Jones LLP
Suite 3400, P.O. Box 130
One First Canadian Place
Toronto, Ontario
M5X 1A4
Telephone: (416) 777-4857
FAX: (416) 863-1716
E-mail: staleyr@bennettjones.ca
- Agent
- Sheridan Scott
- Address
- Bennett Jones LLP
1900 - 45 O'Connor Street
World Exchange Plaza
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 1A4
Telephone: (613) 683-2302
FAX: (613) 683-2323
E-mail: scotts@bennettjones.com
Party: Prostitutes of Ottawa-Gatineau, Work, Educate and Resist, Maggie's, Toronto Sex Workers' Action Project and Stella, l'amie de Maimie
- Counsel
- Cynthia Petersen
Charlene Wiseman
Leslie Robertson
Karin Galldin - Address
- Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP
1100 - 20 Dundas St West
Box 180
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 2G8
Telephone: (416) 977-6070
FAX: (416) 591-7333
E-mail: cpetersen@sgmlaw.com
- Agent
- Raija Pulkkinen
- Address
- Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP
500 - 30 Metcalfe Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5L4
Telephone: (613) 235-5327
FAX: (613) 235-3041
E-mail: rpulkkinen@sgmlaw.com
Party: Providing Alternatives Counselling Education (PACE) Society, Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society (SWUAV), Pivot Legal Society
This party is not represented by counsel.
Party: Attorney General of British Columbia
- Counsel
- Rodney G. Garson
- Address
- Attorney General of British Columbia
940 Blanshard Street, 3rd Floor
P.O. Box 9245 Stn Prov Govt
Victoria, British Columbia
V8W 3E6
Telephone: (250) 387-9087
FAX: (250) 387-4262
E-mail: Rodney.Garson@gov.bc.ca
- Agent
- Robert E. Houston, Q.C.
- Address
- Burke-Robertson
441 MacLaren Street
Suite 200
Ottawa, Ontario
K2P 2H3
Telephone: (613) 236-9665
FAX: (613) 235-4430
E-mail: rhouston@burkerobertson.com
Party: Attorney General of Quebec
- Counsel
- Sylvain Leboeuf
Julie Dassylva - Address
- Procureur général du Québec
1200, Route de l'Église, 2ème étage
Québec, Quebec
G1V 4M1
Telephone: (418) 643-1477 Ext: 21010
FAX: (418) 644-7030
E-mail: sleboeuf@justice.gouv.qc.ca
- Agent
- Pierre Landry
- Address
- Noël & Associés
111, rue Champlain
Gatineau, Quebec
J8X 3R1
Telephone: (819) 771-7393
FAX: (819) 771-5397
E-mail: p.landry@noelassocies.com
Party: Pivot Legal Society, Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence and PACE Society
- Counsel
- Katrina Pacey
Elin R.S. Sigurdson
Lisa C. Glowacki
M. Kathleen Kinch - Address
- Pivot Legal Society
121 Heatley Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6A 3E9
Telephone: (604) 255-9700 Ext: 103
FAX: (604) 255-1552
E-mail: katrina@pivotlegal.org
- Agent
- Jeffrey W. Beedell
- Address
- McMillan LLP
50 O'Connor Street
Suite 300
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 6L2
Telephone: (613) 232-7171 Ext: 122
FAX: (613) 231-3191
E-mail: jeff.beedell@mcmillan.ca
Party: Secretariat of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
- Counsel
- Michael A. Feder
Tammy Shoranick - Address
- McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Suite 1300, 777 Dunsmuir Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V7Y 1K2
Telephone: (604) 643-5983
FAX: (604) 622-5614
E-mail: mfeder@mccarthy.ca
- Agent
- Patricia J. Wilson
- Address
- Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
340 Albert Street
Suite 1900
Ottawa, Ontario
K1R 7Y6
Telephone: (613) 787-1009
FAX: (613) 235-2867
E-mail: pwilson@osler.com
Party: Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
- Counsel
- Georgialee A. Lang
Donald Hutchinson
Faye Sonier - Address
- Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
130 Albert Street
Suite 1810
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5G4
Telephone: (613) 233-9868
FAX: (613) 233-0301
E-mail: glang@georgialeelang.com
- Agent
- Eugene Meehan, Q.C.
- Address
- Supreme Advocacy LLP
397 Gladstone Avenue
Suite 100
Ottawa, Ontario
K2P 0Y9
Telephone: (613) 695-8855 Ext: 101
FAX: (613) 695-8580
E-mail: emeehan@supremeadvocacy.ca
Party: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario
- Counsel
- Jonathan A. Shime
Megan Schwartzentruber - Address
- Cooper & Sandler
1900-439 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1Y8
Telephone: (416) 585-9191
FAX: (416) 408-2372
E-mail: jshime@criminal-lawyers.ca
- Agent
- Marie-France Major
- Address
- Supreme Advocacy LLP
397 Gladstone Avenue
Suite1
Ottawa, Ontario
K2P 0Y9
Telephone: (613) 695-8855 Ext: 102
FAX: (613) 695-8580
E-mail: mfmajor@supremeadvocacy.ca
Party: Feminist Coalition
- Counsel
- Marie Henein
Christine Mainville - Address
- Henein Hutchison LLP
202 - 445 King Street West
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 1K4
Telephone: (416) 368-5000
FAX: (416) 368-6640
E-mail: mhenein@hhllp.ca
- Agent
- Marie-France Major
- Address
- Supreme Advocacy LLP
397 Gladstone Avenue
Suite1
Ottawa, Ontario
K2P 0Y9
Telephone: (613) 695-8855 Ext: 102
FAX: (613) 695-8580
E-mail: mfmajor@supremeadvocacy.ca
Party: David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights
- Counsel
- Joseph J. Arvay, Q.C.
Cheryl Milne - Address
- Arvay Finlay
1320 - 355 Burrard Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6C 2G8
Telephone: (604) 689-4421
FAX: (888) 575-3281
E-mail: jarvay@arvayfinlay.com
- Agent
- Martha A. Healey
- Address
- Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
45 O'Connor Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 1A4
Telephone: (613) 780-8638
FAX: (613) 230-5459
E-mail: martha.healey@nortonrose.com
Party: Institut Simone de Beauvoir
- Counsel
- Walid Hijazi
- Address
- Desrosiers, Joncas, Massicotte
480, boul. St-Laurent, B-503
Montréal, Quebec
H2Y 3Y7
Telephone: (514) 397-9284
FAX: (514) 397-9922
E-mail: walidhijazi@hotmail.com
- Agent
- Frédérick Langlois
- Address
- Deveau, Bourgeois, Gagné, Hébert & associées, sencrl
867, boulevard Saint-René Ouest
Suite 8
Gatineau, Quebec
J8T 7X6
Telephone: (819) 243-2616
FAX: (819) 243-2641
E-mail: flanglois@deveau.qc.ca
Party: Scarlet Alliance-Australian Sex Workers Association, New Zeland Prostitutes Collective Trust and Rosea-Riksorganisationen För Sex & Erotikarbetare
- Counsel
- Monique Pongracic-Speier
Salima Samnani - Address
- Ethos Law Group LLP
1124 - 470 Granville Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6C 1V5
Telephone: (604) 569-3022
FAX: (866) 591-0597
E-mail: monique@ethoslaw.ca
- Agent
- Jeffrey W. Beedell
- Address
- McMillan LLP
50 O'Connor Street
Suite 300
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 6L2
Telephone: (613) 232-7171 Ext: 122
FAX: (613) 231-3191
E-mail: jeff.beedell@mcmillan.ca
Party: AWCEP Asian Women for Equality Society, operating as Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution
- Counsel
- Gwendoline Allison
Christine Boyle, Q.C. - Address
- Foy Allison Law Group
207 - 2438 Marine Drive
West Vancouver, British Columbia
V7V 1L2
Telephone: (604) 922-9282
FAX: (604) 922-9283
E-mail: gwendoline.allison@foyallison.com
- Agent
- D. Lynne Watt
- Address
- Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
160 Elgin Street
Suite 2600
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 1C3
Telephone: (613) 786-8695
FAX: (613) 788-3509
E-mail: lynne.watt@gowlings.com
Party: Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto Inc.
- Counsel
- Christa Big Canoe
Emily Hill - Address
- Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto Inc.
415 Yonge Street
Suite 803
Toronto, Ontario
M5B 2E7
Telephone: (416) 408-4041 Ext: 225
FAX: (416) 408-4268
E-mail: canoecd@lao.on.ca
- Agent
- Charles McDonald
- Address
- Community Legal Services-Ottawa Carleton
1 Nicholas Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 7B7
Telephone: (613) 241-7008
FAX: (613) 241-8680
E-mail: mcdonalc@lao.on.ca

