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Toronto Commercial Litigation Lawyer

35 Years of Litigation Experience Matters

Toronto Commercial Litigation lawyer Justin James Robinson has, over his 35-year legal career, amassed solid experience in a comprehensive range of commercial disputes, admissible evidence, statutory and regulatory issues, and applicable common law and equity affecting a client’s case before he even drafts a pleading.

 

JR Law specializes in complex commercial litigation. The principal of the firm, Toronto commercial litigation lawyer Justin James Robinson, has litigated significant commercial cases since 1989. That’s 30 years of experience in commercial litigation in your corner. And at JR Law, we believe that experience counts for a great deal when it comes to commercial litigation.

Justin James Robinson has appeared at all levels of courts and tribunals in Ontario and the Federal Court of Canada. He also appeared in all levels of courts and tribunals in New South Wales, Australia, and the Federal Court of Australia.

 

Justin’s commercial litigation skills and successes are reported in the major Ontario and Canadian law reports.

 

Justin’s depth of experience, expertise, and skill as a commercial litigation law lawyer is enhanced by his extensive network of specialist colleagues across Ontario, Canada, and around the world.

Strategy. Wisdom. Negotiating power.

Serious experience to solve your legal problems.

Our approach to your Commercial Litigation case

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JR Law is dedicated to achieving the best possible results for clients in commercial litigation. We strategically and ruthlessly pursue standards of excellence in understanding our client’s industry, profession and business as well as our client’s needs. Toronto Commercial Litigation lawyer Justin James Robinson takes great care to understand the industry norms, market conditions, and the full nature of a dispute from the start. We prepare tirelessly which enables us to provide an excellent standard of written and oral advocacy.

 

We are focused on obtaining the best possible results for clients. We will not consider settling a case unless the terms negotiated are equal to or more favourable than can be expected to be achieved by conducting a full hearing before the relevant Court, arbitrator or tribunal.

 

To this end, Justin James Robinson doggedly pursues excellence in his written and oral advocacy. He does not capitulate or surrender.

 

From an administrative and organizational standpoint, Justin knows how to manage large-scale, document-intensive cases efficiently. He develops a solid grasp of all aspects of a matter from the beginning. Justin is responsive to clients’ needs and understands the importance of providing advice, written opinions, and options to clients in a timely and realistic fashion.

Our Commercial Litigation services 

 

Commercial Litigation is a large area of practice within corporate commercial law. Businesses have many moving parts, and if contracts are not clear from the outset, problems frequently ensue. Problems sometimes develop over time as a company’s circumstances, owners, clients, suppliers, and governing regulators change. Business entities are exposed to a broad range of commercial litigation risks through their operations, transactions and from competitors. There are a broad range of Commercial Litigation disputes that a business entity may become embroiled in. Toronto Commercial Litigation lawyer Justin James Robinson represents clients in these matters:

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  • Lease, Purchase and Sale; Mortgage; Easements; other encumbrances and restrictions on title

  • Misrepresentation

  • Mis-statement

  • Negligence

  • Negotiating with monitors

  • Oppression and other corporate remedies

  • Partnership and Joint Venture disputes

  • Personal Property disputes

  • Personal Property Security Act

  • Professional liability – all professional and occupational licencing disciplinary tribunals

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  • Purchase Money Security Interests

  • Real property litigation and real estate disputes

  • Receiverships and the appointment of trustees in bankruptcy

  • Rectification of contractual language

  • Regulatory matters

  • Repair and Storage Lien Act

  • Shareholder disputes

  • Securities litigation

  • Tenders and bid rigging

  • Technology disputes

  • Tort claims

  • Trademark Act disputes
     

  • And, appeals

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Our areas of special expertise in Commercial Litigation

Within our broad range of Commercial Litigation services, the areas below are particular areas of expertise for Toronto Commercial Litigation lawyer Justin James Robinson:

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  • Real estate disputes

  • Personal property disputes

  • Construction

  • Statutory breach of trust

  • Fraud and breach of fiduciary duty

  • Professional negligence

  • Insurance and torts

  • Environmental disputes

  • Land use and municipal disputes

  • Commercial lease financing

  • Partnership and shareholder disputes

  • Injunctive relief

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Corporate clients we have represented in Commercial Litigation matters

 

At JR Law, our clients come to us in two ways. For our Commercial Litigation matters, we receive many referrals from other Commercial Litigation lawyers in Toronto, across Ontario, and throughout Canada, as well as referrals from lawyers practicing in Australia. And we accept cases directly from clients.

 

We are available as Commercial Litigation counsel to clients of other commercial and corporate solicitors as well as to law firms including, litigation law firms. We do accept cases on urgent matters.

Below is a list of institutional and corporate clients that Toronto Commercial Litigation lawyer Justin Robinson has represented as legal counsel:

 

  • Majority of North American “Schedule 1” banks;
     

  • Majority of North American commercial finance companies;
     

  • The largest life and health insurance company in North America;
     

  • Majority of the major commercial and property casualty, commercial liability and marine insurers in North America and globally;
     

  • Various departments of provincial government and province owned and controlled entities;
     

  • The largest municipality in Canada;
     

  • Private lenders and borrowers;
     

  • Members of the energy sector, both regulatory entities and a major power producing entity;
     

  • Members of the mining sector in both:

    (i) Commercial - equipment financing; joint venture disputes; claims against security reporting mining entity by multiple administrative and field contractor service providers; and

    (ii) Insurance matters including:

    (a) A notable private international law industrial injury dispute involving WSIB off coverage position due to a recruiter’s alleged negligence and the Australian owned mine’s alleged liability for serious injury sustained by its Canadian resident driller’s serious lower extremity injury while working on the job in Greenland; and

    (b) A major subrogated claim for an International Insurer  for damages against its insured mine’s general contractor and mining engineers for a serious mining industrial failure involving the total collapse of an extension to an industrial smoke stack extension constructed at a  mine in Sudbury, Ontario;
     

  • Commercial property developers and commercial builders;
     

  • A major commercial financial information provider;
     

  • Seniors’ assisted living and retirement facilities.

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Individual clients we have represented in Commercial Litigation matters 

 

At JR Law, we accept Commercial Litigation cases directly from clients who have a dispute and are seeking justice. We accept cases on urgent matters. Below is a list of individual clients that Toronto Commercial Litigation lawyer Justin James Robinson has represented as legal counsel.

 

  • Business people and business owners;
     

  • Investors and shareholders;
     

  • Insolvent corporations and individuals;
     

  • Persons wronged by the negligence of trusted advisors and other professionals;

 

  • Rural property owners and farmers;
     

  • Vineyards;
     

  • Political activists arrested while making political statements;
     

  • Seniors;
     

  • Injured disabled and aged persons;

 

  • Artists including:  musicians; painters and sculptors, actors, singers, writers; photographers; gallery owners; restaurateurs; comedians;
     

  • Individuals whose trade union failed to take up a legitimate grievance;
     

  • Persons without insurance or whose insurers have denied them coverage.

Justin James Robinson

 

Your lawyer for heavy lifting™. 

Notable Commercial Litigation cases we have done 

 

Toronto Commercial Litigation lawyer Justin James Robinson has an impressive track record of helping his clients, both institutional clients and private citizens, get justice in Toronto, across Ontario, as well as in the State of New South Wales, Australia.

 

From this list of notable commercial litigation cases that Justin James Robinson has conducted over his 35-year legal career, you will get an appreciation for his thoroughness, preparation, and experience, yielding very good results for clients.
 

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Commercial Litigation in Ontario

 

  • Successful defence of a municipality and health and life insurer of a claim alleging the municipal staff negligently advised and documented a group death benefit nominating a designated beneficiary—settled for zero payment. The life insurer paid 100% of death benefit in accordance with deceased firefighter’s wishes.
     

  • Successful prosecution of a statutory trust (Construction Lien Act) trial—decision routinely cited in jurisdictions in Superior Courts across Canada—solicitor and client costs awarded.
     

  • Successful defence of a multi-party class action against Crown Corporations responsible for inventing technology and having regulatory responsibility over gas-fired appliances, including residential furnaces. Settled for zero payment.

 

  • Successful defence at a trial of energy sector Crown Corporation in case commenced by an individual claiming the right to a survivor pension where a substantial amount of money was claimed and precedent-setting circumstances were at stake. Costs award in excess of $60,000. Decision affirmed (upheld) on appeal.
     

  • Successful injunction on behalf of health and life insurer client against claimant for long-term disability resulting in orders against claimant to preserve and produce business records that effectively ended claimant’s case for disability benefits for zero payment by insurer.

 

  • Successful application for constructive trust [a type of legal remedy] impressed on real estate registered in the name of an apparent purchaser who contributed nothing to the purchase price of the property.
     

  • Successfully negotiated discharge Certificate of Pending Litigation (CPL) registered on title of the family home of Toronto individuals by a major Canadian retail bank.
     

  • Successfully opposed motion to discharge certificate of pending litigation obtained by a retired couple defrauded by a rogue builder.

 

  • Successful application in Commercial List wherein the court set aside the registration of a general security agreement for irregularities by an unconventional angel investor and ordered the deputy registrar of the registration system for registration of security interests under the Personal Property Security Act to be discharged permitting financing by a European Bank.
     

  • Successful fraudulent embezzlement case against Ontario physician settled for full amount of claim  secured by consent judgment expressly surviving bankruptcy.
     

  • Successful employment case for senior members of the community employed as apartment supervisors who disobeyed their employer by taking an 11th day of annual leave and succeeded in their damages claim against large apartment building owner client—solicitor and client costs awarded.
     

 

Commercial Litigation in Australia

 

  • Successful defence of charges of malicious damage to an advertising billboard displaying advertising of Berli Australia and subsequent successful defence of appeal by NSW Department of Public Prosecutions.     
     

  • Successfully opposing an enquiry as to whether damages ought to be paid by a party whose interim injunction was dissolved on a final hearing—costs awarded against a trustee in bankruptcy on an indemnity scale.
     

  • Complex land use case regarding total redevelopment of a valuable urban property, to a full stage community resource complex catering infant and toddler day care; child care; primary school; retirement town homes/ single room accommodation, staged assisted retirement living; and comprehensive elder care development application approved by Land and Environment Court of New South Wales.

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Need a Toronto Commercial Litigation lawyer? 

 

Clients of JR Law deal directly with Justin James Robinson on all aspects of their Commercial Litigation case from the first call, to initial meeting, to document collection, to preparing your case, discoveries, through the various stages, to trial and if necessary, appeal.

 

Your case is not delegated to another lawyer, junior lawyer, paralegal, law student, law clerk, or legal assistant. Justin James Robinson handles your case personally. We are behind you every step of the way, to achieve just legal remedies for our clients.

 Contact Justin James Robinson

Call 647-391-1834
 

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