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jwall@casselsbrock.com

Telephone: 416 869 5976
Fax: 416 640 3030

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
2100 Scotia Plaza
40 King Street West
Toronto, ON M5H 3C2
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Jacqueline Wall

As a partner in the Advocacy Group,  Jacqueline is an experienced trial and appellate counsel who during the past fifteen years has focused on providing litigation and dispute resolution services to clients in several specialized areas including: contract disputes; product liability; securities litigation and regulatory investigations; class proceedings; tax litigation and tax dispute resolution; estate and charitable foundation litigation; professional negligence; breach of confidence; and libel.

Recent significant litigation matters on which Jacqueline has worked include:

• Acting for a mining company in OSC proceedings which defined the circumstances in which an acquiror is required to hold a shareholders’ meeting and obtain shareholders’ approval of an acquisition, when shareholdings will be diluted because the acquiror will issue shares in payment of the purchase price, and the shareholders of the target company are afforded a vote. This landmark decision led the TSX to amend the TSX Company Manual to require TSX-listed issuers to obtain the approval of their shareholders for acquisitions that will result in the issuance of 25% or more of the issued and outstanding shares of the acquirer on a non-diluted basis in payment of the purchase price.
• Defending a pharmaceutical product liability class action against a multinational health care company in which the class members sought $900 million in damages.
• Prosecuting an action brought by a global chemicals company against a demolition contractor and its subcontractors who allegedly misappropriated confidential and proprietary information to be used to build a competing chemical plant.
• Prosecuting an action against a company’s former senior executives who allegedly breached their fiduciary duties by secretly setting up a competing business and misappropriating their employer’s confidential customer and manufacturing information.
• Defending diverse claims brought against Ontario universities including medical malpractice actions alleging negligence by students enrolled in professional health care programs, a libel action, and claims by students alleging that they were unable to complete their graduate programs of study, in one case due to racial discrimination and, in the second case, as a result of the university’s alleged failure to provide financial assistance and a supervising professor for the student’s thesis.
• Acting on behalf of a Crown agency in a jury trial involving allegations of fraud, negligence and vicarious liability for the conduct of an independent contractor.
• Acting on behalf of a hospital foundation seeking to enforce a $1.0 million pledge, which was only partially paid before the grantor’s death.

With a strong interest in legal education, Jacqueline has instructed at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University conducting civil procedure workshops for first-year law students.

Jacqueline spent her articling year at Cassels Brock. Upon graduation from Queen’s University Law School, she was awarded the prize for the highest standing in Securities Regulation.

Jacqueline completed her Honours Bachelor of Science degree specializing in Immunology. Prior to pursuing her legal career, she conducted cancer research at a downtown Toronto hospital. The results of Jacqueline’s cancer research have been published in several medical journals, including Canadian Journal of Surgery, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment and Proceedings of ASCO.

Jacqueline has written numerous papers and delivered presentations on diverse topics including liability of accountants and investment advisors, rectification in tax cases, product warranties and limitation of liability clauses, medical device recalls, the effective use of experts in product liability litigation, solicitor-client privilege, employee references, indemnity and insurance for directors and officers, the Limitations Act, 2002, reverse bad faith by insureds and law firm risk management.

Education

LL.B., Queen's University, 1994
B.Sc. Hons. (with Distinction), Trinity College, University of Toronto, 1989

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Associations

• The Advocates’ Society
• American Bar Association
• Canadian Bar Association
• Canadian Tax Foundation
• Defense Research Institute
• Ontario Bar Association
• Toronto Lawyers Association