Tiffany O'Hearn Davies
Tiffany O'Hearn Davies
Biography
Tiffany O'Hearn Davies is a litigation and investigations lawyer whose practice centers on complex commercial and regulatory matters and internal investigations.
Tiffany is regularly called upon to litigate highly contentious matters and provide legal and strategic advice for clients in crisis situations. She has acted for businesses and individuals in a broad range of legal proceedings, including those arising from breaches of fiduciary duties, conflicts of interests, breach of contract, employment and human rights matters, and alleged corporate misconduct. Tiffany has appeared as counsel before various courts and tribunals, including the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
Tiffany has specific experience conducting sensitive internal investigations involving allegations of fraud, harassment, and workplace misconduct, including by investigating facts, conducting interviews and examinations, advising on legal and reputational risks, and engaging with regulatory authorities where necessary.
Before joining us, Tiffany was an associate at a leading boutique litigation firm where she had a broad civil litigation practice. She also clerked at the Court of Appeal for Ontario, where she worked closely with judges of the court on a broad range of civil and criminal appeals.
Professional experience
Representative experience
Representative experience
- Successfully represented defendant corporations in a motion to remove the plaintiff's lawyers as counsel of record on account of a conflict of interest
- Successfully represented a client in a human rights complaint before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
- Represented an institutional party in a coroner's inquest into a fatality on a construction site
- Successfully represented a client in having an application for judicial review removed from the court file on the basis that the applicant was a vexatious litigant
- Successfully represented a client in an application for judicial review of a Canadian Human Rights Commission decision and obtained an order directing the Commission to reconsider its decision regarding the timeliness of the complaint
- Successfully represented a client in a grievance arbitration regarding interpretation of a memorandum of settlement between the client and the union
Education
Education
J.D., Dalhousie Schulich School of Law, 2013
M.A., University of Alberta, 2007
B.A.H., Queen's University, 2006
Admissions
Admissions
- Ontario 2014
- Nova Scotia 2014
Publications
Publications
- "Withdrawing as Counsel of Record – Not as Simple as it Sounds: Use of the Supreme Court of Canada's Decision in R. v. Cunningham by Administrative Tribunals in Requests to Withdraw as Counsel of Record" (co-author: Brian Gover), Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice, September 2016.
Speaking engagements
Speaking engagements
- "Enduring Risk in Canadian Employment Law - 2024," HRPA Policy Global Regional Roundtable, April 2024.
- "Canadian Employment and Labour Law – Top Ten 2023," HRPA Policy Global Regional Roundtable, April 2023.
- "The new normal in Ontario workplaces," NRF webinar, April 2022.
- "Answering the top pandemic-related workplace questions from Ontario employers," NRF webinar, October 2021.
- "Managing Employee Work Refusals in a Covid-19 World," Managing your duty to accommodate, virtual conference, March 2021.
- "Privacy and Confidentiality: Balancing and Protecting Privacy in Cases Involving Allegations of Sexual Violence," The Osgoode Intensive Course in Responding to Campus Sexual Violence Complaints, Osgoode Professional Development, Toronto, May 2019.
- "Border Control on the Information Superhighway: Professional Regulation in the Digital Age," Canadian Network of Agencies for Regulation Conference, Banff, AB, October 2018.
- "The Meaning of #MeToo: Regulating Sexual Misconduct Amidst Normative Change," Canadian Network of Agencies for Regulation Conference, Banff, AB, October 2018.
Memberships and activities
Memberships and activities
- Canadian Bar Association
- Law Society of Ontario
- Nova Scotia Barristers' Society
- Ontario Bar Association
- The Advocates' Society
- Toronto Lawyers' Association
- Volunteer, Pro Bono Law Ontario – free legal advice hotline
Insights and news
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