Ranjan K. Agarwal maintains a complex litigation practice, with a specific focus on class action, commercial, constitutional and employment disputes.
Ranjan has appeared as lead or co-counsel in 13 cases before the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also briefed and argued numerous cases in Federal Court, Ontario and across Canada, and provides strategic advice to companies, funds and organizations at all stages of complex litigation.
In its national rankings, Benchmark Litigation recognized Ranjan as a future star in commercial litigation, noting that he has “probably been involved in more interventions in the Supreme Court of Canada than anyone of his vintage.” Among other recognitions, Lexpert magazine named him a Rising Star: Leading Lawyer Under 40 and Precedent magazine recognized him as Precedent Setter for his advocacy and pro bono work.
Ranjan is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, and co-author of Class Actions Law and Practice. He has published numerous articles on a wide variety of litigation issues in the Supreme Court Law Review, National Journal of Constitutional Law, Alberta Law Review, Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law and the Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law.
Ranjan is President of the South Asian Bar Association of Toronto, one of North America’s largest diverse bar associations. He is also Chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights section. In 2015, the OBA awarded Ranjan its Heather McArthur Memorial Young Lawyers Award.
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Bureau Veritas SA, in connection with a successful defence of the $1.85 billion class action commenced against it and Loblaw Co. Ltd. alleging that they neglected to warn workers of structural deficiencies in the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh before it collapsed. Read more
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Pro Bono Law Ontario, as counsel in the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Hinse v Canada (Attorney General) on the issue of indemnification for legal costs in private pro bono litigation. Hinse v Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 35
- Catholic Civil Rights League and others as interveners in an appeal involving the Quebec Minister of Education's denial of an exemption to Loyola High School from the provincial Program on Ethics and Religious Culture.
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Recent Recognitions
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2017, Legal Media Groups Benchmark Litigation: Canada
Ranjan K. Agarwal, recognized as a future star
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2017, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
Ranjan K. Agarwal, repeatedly recommended, Litigation - Public Law
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2016, Legal Media Groups Benchmark Litigation: Canada
Ranjan K. Agarwal, recognized as a future star in the area of general commercial litigation in Ontario
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