Leah Cummings
leah@raymanharris.com — LinkedIn
EDUCATION
Admission to the Ontario Bar - 2020
Juris Doctor, University of Ottawa, Common Law - 2019
Honours Bachelor of Arts, University of Toronto - Peace, Conflict, and Justice Studies - 2015
ASSOCIATIONS
Toronto Lawyers’ Association, Member
Ontario Expropriation Association, Member
Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario, membre
Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Law Moot, Organizing Committee
SELECT REPRESENTATIVE WORK
Expropriations
Annapolis Group Inc v Halifax Regional Municipality, 2022 SCC 36 (counsel for the intervener, the Canadian Home Builders’ Association)
City of St. John’s v Wallace Lynch et al, 2014 SCC 17 (counsel for the intervener, the Canadian Home Builders’ Association)
Newgen Restaurants Inc (o/a Smith Bros Steakhouse Tavern) v Metrolinx, OLT-22-003177 (business losses from restaurant impacted by Eglinton LRT)
McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada Limited v York (Region), 2023 CanLII 83046 (motion for a confidentiality order)
Don Valley Auto Centre Ltd v Metrolinx, 2023 CanLII 56710 (motion for summary judgment)
Motek Cultural Initiative v Metrolinx, 2022 CanLII 78160 (motion for summary judgment)
Civil Litigation/ Administrative Law
Capital SLC v Spotless Consultancy, 2022 ONSC 2742 (mareva injunction)
Luo v Fulton Development Inc., 2023 ONSC 6262 (motion to strike)
Fitchett v The Corporation of the Town of Gravenhurst, 2023 ONSC 1432 (judicial review)
Jessica Lee et al v Chaowu Jin et al, CV-19-143153 (motion to oppose confirmation or a report and certificate of assessment)
Leah is a lawyer whose practice focuses on expropriations, administrative law, and civil litigation.
Leah’s expropriation practice focuses on owner-side disputes. She has represented tenants, home-owners, corporate-landowners, and developers with claims across Ontario. She has had a front-row-seat to recent developments in the law of constructive takings, acting as counsel to an intervener in two recent appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada: Annapolis Group Inc v Halifax Regional Municipality, 2022 SCC 36 and City of St. John’s v Wallace Lynch et al, (under reserve).
Leah has appeared before the Ontario Land Tribunal, sports-regulating bodies, the Small Claims Court, the Ontario Divisional Court, and the Ontario Superior Court. Leah is also a former judicial law clerk of the Federal Court of Canada and articled with the Military Police Complaints Commission. She competed in the International Criminal Court Moot and the Exchequer Cup Moot, receiving the award of Best Government Counsel Oralist in the former and Best Appellant Factum in the latter.
Leah is the co-author of the Annotated Conservation Authorities Act, a comprehensive text examining the role of conservation authorities in Ontario and the scope of their jurisdiction and authority.
In her spare time, Leah can be found learning new music on her harp, performing in the Toronto Lawyer Show, or out for a run.