Daphne G. Jarvis is a lawyer practicing litigation and arbitration, privacy and data protection, health advocacy and 5 other areas of law. Daphne G. received a degree from McMaster University in 1979, and has been licensed for 40 years. Daphne G. practices at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, ON.
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Practice Details
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Firm InformationPositionPartnerFirm NameBorden Ladner Gervais LLP
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Representative Cases & TransactionsCasesRepresentative Work: Defends hospitals
their employees in medical malpractice lawsuits on retainer with the Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada (HIROC).
Acts as counsel for hospitals
other healthcare facilities at Coroner's inquests by direct retainer, including inquests covering multiple deaths.
Provides ongoing advice, legal support
policy review to various hospitals, children's mental health centres, community care access centres
community health centres, including capacity
consent to treatment, child
adolescent health,
end of life issues.
Acts as counsel to health providers in hearings before the Consent
Capacity Board
appeals taken from those decisions.
Retained frequently as counsel to individual health providers involved in complaints or disciplinary hearings before their professional bodies,
in reviews of those decisions by the Health Professions Appeal
Review Board.
Appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in Starson v. Swayze, 2003 SCC 32, as counsel to the intervenor, The Schizophrenia Society of Canada
Represented Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre during the first stage of the Rasouli litigation, after which the Hospital was no longer a party (Cuthbertson v. Rasouli, 2013 SCC 53
upholding 2011 ONCA 482
upholding 2011 ONSC 1500).
Represented the applicant Hospital in the case of Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation v. D.H., 2014 ONCJ 603, regarding a parent refusing chemotherapy for a First Nations child in favour of traditional medicines.
Experience
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Bar Admission & MembershipsAdmissions1986, Ontario
MembershipsProfessional Involvement
•Past-President,Medico-Legal Society of Toronto (2014-15)
Member of Executive (2010-present)
Member of Council (2007-present)
•Community Member, Ethics Committee, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, (2000-04)
•Member, Ontario Bar Association, Health Law Section
•Member, The Advocates' Society
•Instructor, Module 4 - Special Issues on the Treatment of Children and Adolescents, Osgoode Certificate in Mental Health Law Program, (2009-14) -
Education & CertificationsLaw SchoolUniversity of Ottawa Law School
Class of 1984
LL.B.
magna cum laude
Other EducationMcMaster University
Class of 1979
B.Sc.
McMaster University
Class of 1979
Biology
McMaster University
Class of 1979
Honours Philosophy
McMaster University
Class of 1981
B.A.
B.Sc.
McMaster University
Class of 1981
B.A.
Biology
McMaster University
Class of 1981
B.A.
Honours Philosophy
Daphne G. Jarvis
Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower22 Adelaide Street West, Suite 3400Toronto, ON M5H 4E3Canada