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McMillan's SCC Group provides Effective, Efficient, and Expeditious ("3E") service to our clients, whether it be as Supreme Court of Canada advisors, co-counsel or Ottawa Agents. We routinely coach or assist appellate counsel with customized service depending on their needs for the particular case.

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Indalex Ltd., Re, 2013 CarswellOnt 733, 2013 CarswellOnt 734, 2013 SCC 6 - Counsel: Éric Vallières, Alexandre Forest, Yoine Goldstein, for Intervener, Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals
Option consommateurs v. Infineon Technologies AG, 2013 CarswellQue 10520, 2013 CarswellQue 10521, 2013 SCC 59
Public Performance of Sound Recordings, Re, 2012 CarswellNat 2382, 2012 CarswellNat 2383, 2012 SCC 38 - Counsel: David W. Kent, Sarah Kilpatrick, for Respondent, Motion Picture Theatre Associations of Canada
Alternative granite & marbre inc., Re., 2009 CarswellQue 10706, 2009 CarswellQue 10707, 2009 SCC 49 - Counsel: Éric Vallières, Sidney Elbaz, for Intervener
BCE Inc., Re, 2008 CarswellQue 12595, 2008 CarswellQue 12596, 2008 SCC 69 - Counsel: Markus Koehnen, Max Mendelsohn, Paul Macdonald, Julien Brazeau, Erin Cowling, for Respondent / Appellant on Cross-Appeals, Group of 1997 Debentureholders
NAV Canada c. Wilmington Trust Co., 2006 CarswellQue 4890, 2006 CarswellQue 4891, 2006 SCC 24 - Counsel: Bertrand Giroux, Markus Koehnen, Jeff Gollob, Jason Murphy, Jean-Yves Fortin, Geneviève Bergeron for Wilmington Trust Company, Wilmington Trust Corporation, Renaissance Leasing Corporation, Heather Leasing Corporation, G.I.E. Avions de transport régional and ATR Marketing Inc. (30729, 30730, 30731, 30732, 30738, 30740, 30742, 30743, 30745, 30749, 30750)
Gifford v. Canada, [2004] 1 S.C.R. - Counsel: Michael Templeton and Richard Thomas, for the appellant Thomas Gifford
Eli Lilly & Co. v. Novopharm Ltd., [1998] 2 S.C.R. 129 - Counsel: Donald N. Plumley, Q.C.,Mark Mitchell and Stephanie Chong, for the appellant Novopharm Limited
Eaton v. Brant (County) Board of Education, 1996 CarswellOnt 5035, 1996 CarswellOnt 5036, [1996] S.C.J. No. 98 - Counsel: David W. Kent, Melanie A. Yach and Geri Sanson, for Interveners Council of Canadians with Disabilities, la Confédération des organismes de personnes handicapées du Québec, Canadian Association for Community Living, and People First of Canada
Morguard Investments Ltd. v. De Savoye, 1990 CarswellBC 283, 1990 CarswellBC 767, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 1077 - Counsel: Peter Reardon, for respondents
National Corn Growers Assn. v. Canada (Canadian Import Tribunal), 1990 CarswellNat 611, 1990 CarswellNat 741, [1990] 2 S.C.R. 1324, [1990] S.C.J. No. 110 - Counsel: C.M. Flavell and G.C. Kubrick for intervenors (Ontario Corn Producers et al.)
Reference re Bill 30, An Act to amend the Education Act (Ont.), 1987 CarswellOnt 1049F, 1987 CarswellOnt 1049, [1987] 1 S.C.R. 1148 - Counsel: Larry T. Taman and David W. Kent, for Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Lumberland Inc. v. Nineteen Hundred Tower Ltd., 1975 CarswellQue 53F, 1975 CarswellQue 53, [1977] 1 S.C.R. 581, 10 N.R. 393 - Counsel: Michael A. Gagnon, for the respondent
671905 Alberta Inc., et al. v. Q'Max Solutions Inc., Leave to Appeal (Docket 29926)