Brittiny Rabinovitch
Tel: 647-725-2604brabinovitch@babinbessnerspry.comvCard
Experience
Brittiny Rabinovitch joined Babin Bessner Spry LLP in 2024. Prior to joining the firm, Brittiny practiced at the leading national law firm Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.
Brittiny’s practice focuses on complex commercial disputes and administrative and regulatory law matters. She also has particular expertise in Indigenous law, environmental and municipal law disputes and advisory work, and Federal Court matters. Brittiny’s experience includes a range of business disputes, municipal and environmental tribunal disputes, corporate governance matters, oppression and shareholder disputes, tort and negligence claims, injunctions, investigations and arbitrations. Brittiny also regularly provides strategic and risk management advice to clients.
Brittiny has represented clients at all levels of court in Ontario, as well as at the Ontario Lands Tribunal, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, the Alberta Court of King's Bench, and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Brittiny clerked at the Federal Court of Appeal in 2015-2016. She obtained her J.D. from Queen’s University, where she served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Queen’s Law Journal.
Brittiny regularly volunteers with Pro Bono Ontario's Duty Counsel Project.
Representative Work
Brittiny’s experience includes acting for:
- The pension plan administrator of the Sears Canada Inc. Registered Retirement Plan in the CCAA liquidation of Sears Canada
- A First Nation in a large and complex action against the Canadian and Ontario governments for historical wrongs
- A national telecommunications provider in an application for judicial review against a federal ministry in Federal Court
- A privately held company in a zoning bylaw and Planning Act appeal against a municipality.
- A governing body to obtain an injunction against protestors impeding its operations
- A media company in a successful appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in a jurisdictional dispute over a libel claim (Haaretz.com v Goldhar, 2018 SCC 28)
- A group of investors in an arbitration related to a real estate investment agreement
- Officers and directors of a natural resource company in a summary judgment motion related to a corporate governance, oppression and misrepresentation claim by noteholders
- A crown agency to perform an internal investigation and provide strategic advice on organizational legal risks
- A leading Indigenous company in a constitutional dispute and motion to preserve confidentiality over financial materials
- A global aggregate company in a weeks-long Environmental Review Tribunal (now Ontario Land Tribunal) hearing
- The production team for the creators of a popular television series in a copyright dispute
Affiliations and Education
Professional Affiliations:
- Law Society of Ontario
- Canadian Bar Association
- Ontario Bar Association
- Advocates’ Society
Bar Admission:
- Ontario, 2015
Education:
- Queen’s University, J.D., 2014
- University of Ottawa, B.Soc.Sc., 2010
Languages:
- French
Publications and Appearances
- Speaker, “Writing Tips and Strategies: Persuasive Argument Writing”, Ontario Bar Association Persuasive Legal Writing seminar, January 25, 2024
- Co-author, “SCC Rules that Crown’s Fiduciary Duty is Central in Assessing Compensation for Flooded Indigenous Reserve Land” July 21, 2021
- Speaker, “Environmental Law in Canada, from East to West (Eastern Canada)”, November 23, 2021
- Speaker, “Expansion of the use of the oppression remedy, in Sears and elsewhere”, Law Society of Ontario Continuing Education Session Shareholder Disputes: What Litigators Need to Know, June 3, 2021
- Co-editor, Canadian Legal Practice: A Guide for the 21st Century, Lexis Nexis Canada (Loosleaf), Chapter 7: Practice Structures (2019)
- Co-author, “SCC Stays Internet Defamation Case, Urges Fairness and Efficiency”, June 8, 2018
- Developer and co-author, Canadian Guide to Legal Style (Toronto: Carswell, 2014)
