Martin J. Thompson Partner Ottawa Tel : 613.232.7171 Ext. 127 Fax : 613.231.3191 Email : martin.thompson@mcmillan.ca VCard :

Professional Activities

• Partner as of 2009
• Member of the firm's Commercial Litigation Practice Group and Municipal Law Group
• Practice includes civil, commercial and municipal litigation, including: education law, which consists of academic and instructional offences, research ethic issues, academic fraud, as well as student and faculty complaints and actions involving matters of internal governance.
• Practice also includes: insurance defence litigation including personal injury, automobile, professional errors and omissions and self-insured institution matters.

Community Involvement

• Campaign Corporate Representative, United Way
• Rideauwood Addiction and Family Services

Languages

• French and English
• Fluently bilingual (oral and written)

Municipal Law
City of Ottawa

A. By-law Challenges

• Assisted with lead counsel in successful defence of jurisdictional and constitutional challenges to the City's Adult Entertainment Parlour By-law before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. ( The Adult Entertainment Parlours Association of Canada et al. v. City of Ottawa , Hackland, J. May 18, 2006) and Court of Appeal for Ontario (to be heard in January, 2007).

B. Municipal Assessment & Taxation

• Assisted with lead counsel in successful defence of jurisdictional challenge to capping, claw back and related taxation provisions under the Municipal Act and related City by-laws before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. ( Bettencourt v. City of Ottawa , Power, J., September 14, 2005).
• Assisted with lead counsel in ongoing litigation involving municipal taxation legislation before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. ( Rostrust Investments Inc., et al. v. City of Ottawa et al ., OSCJ File No. 03-CV-26260).

C. Civil & Commercial Litigation

• Assisted with lead counsel in previous and ongoing proceedings against the City and other parties respecting Tripartite Agreement before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. ( School of Dance v. City of Ottawa , 2004 - 2006).
• Assisted with lead counsel in successful settlement at arbitration of contractual dispute involving the City and a tenant. ( The Coliseum Inc. v. City of Ottawa , 2006).

• Assisted with opinion work to the City of Greater Sudbury in 2006 respecting capping, claw back and related taxation provisions under the Municipal Act and related City by-laws.

January 2011 Gauthier v. Saint-Germain: A Forthcoming Lesson from the Supreme Court of Canada on Educational Malpractice? Co-author (Martin J. Thompson and Thomas Slade, Student-at-Law)

October 22, 2010 The Construction Lien Act Guest Speaker, Ottawa Construction Association Fall Seminar, Ottawa, Ontario

February 18, 2010 to February 19, 2010 Corporate Social Responsibility in the University Context and its Legal Implications Panellist, Council of Ontario University Secretaries (COUS) Conference, University of Guelph-Humber

November 2009 Judge Reserves Decision Featured, The Whig Standard, Sue Yanagisawa, November 13, 2009