Privacy Litigation

We have meaningful experience litigating privacy and access cases.

JSS Barristers lawyers have acted as an advisor and advocate in many privacy and access cases and has developed high level expertise in the area. We have successfully acted as counsel in privacy, access and health information judicial reviews, and appeals at the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.

Examples of high-profile or important engagements resulting in decisions include:

• Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v University of Calgary, 2016 SCC 53
• Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v Alberta Teachers’ Association, 2011 SCC 61
• Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 401, 2013 SCC 62
• Calgary (Police Service) v Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner), 2018 ABCA 114
• Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v Leon’s Furniture Limited, 2011 ABCA 94
• Calgary (Police Service) v Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner), 2019 ABQB 109
• Alberta Health Services v Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner), 2018 ABQB 467