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nauty@casselsbrock.com

Telephone: 416 860 2972
Fax: 416 350 6924

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

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Nicole Auty

Nicole's practice focuses on all areas of municipal, planning and environmental law, including expropriations, tax assessment appeals and proceedings under the Building Code Act. Nicole is active in organizing seminars, giving presentations and preparing information pieces for clients on municipal planning and environmental matters. The combination of her formal education in environmental and geological sciences and her practical experience provides Nicole with a unique perspective.

Some of Nicole's related work experience includes:

• Acting for clients in matters before the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), other administrative tribunals and the Superior Courts in relation to a range of municipal, planning and environmental law issues, including appeals from the OMB to the Courts
• Representing public and private sector clients before the OMB and Assessment Review Board, including advising the Town of Georgina, the Region of Niagara and Ontario Realty Corporation on planning and environmental matters before the Board
• Representing clients on matters before the courts on municipal election matters, including an application for judicial review
• Acting for public sector clients in municipal enforcement matters, including Building Code and Fire Code prosecutions
• Preparing development applications and obtaining development approvals for private and public sector clients; specifically, assisting with the representation of the University of Toronto and the Toronto Film Studios in obtaining development approvals in matters before both the Committee of Adjustment and the OMB
• Advising public and private sector clients on issues of municipal liability and authority, property tax assessment, nuisance and negligence
• Providing detailed analysis on a range of legal issues in planning and environmental law

Nicole has authored a number of articles and information pieces on municipal and environmental matters and is co-author of Canadian Forms & Precedents - Municipal Law, published in Spring 2010 by LexisNexis Butterworths. In addition to her law practice, Nicole is an elected member of the 2010-2011 Ontario Bar Association Municipal Law Executive.

Education

LL.B., Dalhousie University, 2003
Certificate of Specialization in Environmental Law, Dalhousie University, 2003
B.Sc. Hons., Queen's University, 2000

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Associations

• Air & Waste Management Association
• Canadian Bar Association (Municipal Law Section)
• Ontario Bar Association (Environmental Law Section)
• Ontario Bar Association (Municipal Law Section and elected member of the 2010-2011 OBA Municipal Law Executive)
• Ontario Environmental Industry Association