Alastair McNish
Having a better understanding of your business makes me a better advocate for you. I’ll go to your factory, your farm, your office, wherever helps me to get the full picture.
CONTACT
416-644-9966
BIO
Al maintains a general litigation practice. His commercial litigation practice includes contractual disputes, mortgage enforcement, economic torts, and shareholder disputes. A significant part of Al’s practice is devoted to wrongful dismissal claims and other employment matters, acting for both employers and employees. Al has experience at the Superior Court, Divisional Court and Court of Appeal, and regularly appears before arbitration panels and administrative and regulatory tribunals.
Al received a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree and Master of Industrial Relations degree from Queen’s University, where he was an Academic All-Canadian with the Golden Gaels football team. Al obtained his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2005.
Bar Admission:
- Ontario, 2006
Education:
- LL.B from Osgoode Hall Law School, (2005)
- Queen’s University, Bachelor of Commerce, (Honours)
- Queen’s University, Master of Industrial Relations
REPRESENTATIVE WORK
- Successful summary judgement motion against credit card company for improper charges
- Administrative Tribunal appeal from agricultural marketing board decision
- Counsel to estate trustees in an application to compel the sale of investment properties
- Successful in motion to strike opposing parties’ evidence for abuse of process
- Favourable mediated settlement of a senior executive’s severance package from a leading national real estate company
- Successful appeal of termination by Facility Association of Agency/Broker Service Carrier Agreement
- Successful litigation on behalf of large commercial landlord with anchor tenant for breach of long term lease
- Effectively represented a real estate brokerage in a commission dispute
- Successful arbitration with substantial indemnity cost award in a real estate matter establishing our client as the sole owners of disputed properties in and around the GTA
- Injunction against a former key employee of a corporation to prevent him from soliciting customers of the business
- Favourable mediated settlement on behalf of a construction lien claimant over unpaid work at stadiums built for the Pan-Am Games in the GTA
- Summary judgment granted for private mortgage lender
- Successful arbitration to enforce contractual rights on the sale of a book of business
- Arbitration of a multimillion-dollar contractual dispute involving a large scale real estate development project
- Obtained significant trial judgement in favour of ex-spouse regarding share ownership and valuation of closely held corporation
- Counsel to plaintiff in an investment broker negligence case
- Obtained and executed an Anton Piller injunction against a former key employee of a corporation. Successfully recovered thousands of confidential corporate records
- Overturned a Ministry of Finance decision that prevented a tobacco farmer from producing raw leaf tobacco
- Counsel to estate trustees opposing an application to have them replaced by a corporate trustee