BA (Hons) (University of Western Ontario, 1989), LLB (Queens University, 1992), of the Bar of Ontario (1994).

He is a co-author of McWilliams Canadian Criminal Evidence (4th ed.)with Mr. Justice S. Casey Hill and Professor David Tanovich. He practices criminal trial and appellate advocacy and has appeared before all levels of Court in Canada. He was intervener counsel to the Criminal Lawyers’ Association (Ontario) before the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Hall (challenge to the tertiary bail ground) and R. v. Khelawon (threshold admissibility of hearsay). He will also be appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada again this fall as co-counsel on behalf of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association in Chatterjee v. Ontario, a case involving a federalism challenge to Ontario’s civil remedies forfeiture act. He has served as a Toronto Director of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association for the last 8 years. He has published articles in the Criminal Reports and has lectured on criminal law topics ranging from evidence, proceeds of crime and bail. He appears regularly before the Court of Appeal for Ontario as inmate appeal duty counsel in Toronto and Kingston. In addition, he is duty counsel at the Law Society of Upper Canada. Through his work on McWilliams Canadian Criminal Evidence he has maintained a strong theoretical and practical interest in the development of the law of evidence in Canada.