Sara maintains a general litigation practice of complex civil, commercial, and administrative law matters, including contractual disputes, professional liability, shareholder disputes, and fraud. She regularly represents companies, businesspersons, and regulated professionals in those areas. Sara takes a practical and results driven approach to representing her clients.

Sara has been lead counsel on professional liability and real property matters proceeding to trial and appeal. Her practice often involves injunctions and extraordinary remedies, including obtaining Mareva orders through urgent motions and applications.

Prior to joining the firm, Sara practiced civil and criminal litigation. She has successfully represented clients at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Commercial List, the Ontario Divisional Court, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, and before arbitrators in confidential commercial arbitrations. As an articling student with Crown Law Office – Civil, Sara worked on a variety of litigation matters including class actions, Aboriginal law claims, and judicial review applications. Sara received a dual Juris Doctor/Master of Arts in International Affairs at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs where she graduated on the Dean’s Honor List. During law school, she was a member of the World Trade Organization moot team that reached the semi-finals in Washington D.C. and was awarded for their written submissions. Prior to law school, she completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of British Columbia. Sara previously worked at Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada’s litigation unit and at the Legal Bureau of Global Affairs Canada.

Sara was called to the Ontario Bar in 2020. She volunteers at ProBono Ontario’s Hotline and is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, the Canadian Bar Association, the Advocates’ Society, and the Group of Racialized Ontario Women Litigators.

Representative Matters

  • Successful in obtaining an urgent, ex parte CPL to secure a claim for breach of an assignment agreement for a residential property, involving allegations of fraud
  • Acted for co-owners of a closely held concrete business on an application for corporate oppression, fraud, misuse of company property, and successfully resisted the appointment of a receiver

 

Decisions

  • Beaudin v. Travelers Insurance Company of Canada, 2022 ONCA 806 – counsel to the successful appellant in an appeal concerning the correct statutory interpretation of Ontario’s Off-Road Vehicles Act
  • Wayne Safety Inc. v. Diana Gendelman et al., 2023 ONSC 2478 – successful in obtaining extraordinary relief in the form of Anton Piller, Mareva, Norwich relief and multiple certificates of pending litigation to address an ongoing fraud
  • 2371143 Ontario Inc. v. Canaan Art Centre Inc., 2024 ONSC 1004 — successfully brought a summary judgment on liability and damages for a commercial lease enforcement, and obtained a substantial indemnity costs award
  • Markham Travel Health Clinic et al. v. Tians Medical Services Inc., 2023 ONSC (unreported) – successfully resisted an injunction arising in the context of a contract dispute related to Covid-19 testing
  • Brookfield Residential (Ontario) Limited v. Yuskov, 2022 ONSC 2162 (unreported) – brought a motion for summary judgment and secured damages against a purchaser who failed to close on a property transaction
  • Maple Equipment & Leasing Inc. v. DS&D Personnel Inc., 2022 ONSC 2097— counsel on appeal to the Divisional Court involving the terms of a shotgun buy/sell agreement
  • R. v. Pogachar, 2021 ONSC 5826 – counsel on a complex section 11(b) Charter application seeking stay of proceedings of securities fraud and theft over

Firm

  • Romeih S., Reflecting Economic Realities: When Should Courts Deviate from the Standard Prejudgment Interest? (Keeping Tabs, Winter 2024)
  • Romeih, S. J.B. v. Ontario: Duty of Care in the Context of Child Protection Cases (Toronto Law Journal, May 2020)
  • Lucas v. Semelhago: Is it Open Season for Specific Performance? in Justice Darla A. WIlson (ed.), Annual Review of Civil Litigation, 2024 (Thomson Reuters) (co-authored with Gordon Vance and Daniel Milton)
  • Presenter, "Keeping Current for Civil Litigators Series", Ontario Bar Association, February 27, 2024
  • Moderator, “Build Your Book”, Group of Racialized Ontario Women Litigators, November 29, 2023

Biography

Sara maintains a general litigation practice of complex civil, commercial, and administrative law matters, including contractual disputes, professional liability, shareholder disputes, and fraud. She regularly represents companies, businesspersons, and regulated professionals in those areas. Sara takes a practical and results driven approach to representing her clients.

Sara has been lead counsel on professional liability and real property matters proceeding to trial and appeal. Her practice often involves injunctions and extraordinary remedies, including obtaining Mareva orders through urgent motions and applications.

Prior to joining the firm, Sara practiced civil and criminal litigation. She has successfully represented clients at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Commercial List, the Ontario Divisional Court, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, and before arbitrators in confidential commercial arbitrations. As an articling student with Crown Law Office – Civil, Sara worked on a variety of litigation matters including class actions, Aboriginal law claims, and judicial review applications. Sara received a dual Juris Doctor/Master of Arts in International Affairs at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs where she graduated on the Dean’s Honor List. During law school, she was a member of the World Trade Organization moot team that reached the semi-finals in Washington D.C. and was awarded for their written submissions. Prior to law school, she completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of British Columbia. Sara previously worked at Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada’s litigation unit and at the Legal Bureau of Global Affairs Canada.

Sara was called to the Ontario Bar in 2020. She volunteers at ProBono Ontario’s Hotline and is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, the Canadian Bar Association, the Advocates’ Society, and the Group of Racialized Ontario Women Litigators.

Representative Matters & Decisions

Representative Matters

  • Successful in obtaining an urgent, ex parte CPL to secure a claim for breach of an assignment agreement for a residential property, involving allegations of fraud
  • Acted for co-owners of a closely held concrete business on an application for corporate oppression, fraud, misuse of company property, and successfully resisted the appointment of a receiver

 

Decisions

  • Beaudin v. Travelers Insurance Company of Canada, 2022 ONCA 806 – counsel to the successful appellant in an appeal concerning the correct statutory interpretation of Ontario’s Off-Road Vehicles Act
  • Wayne Safety Inc. v. Diana Gendelman et al., 2023 ONSC 2478 – successful in obtaining extraordinary relief in the form of Anton Piller, Mareva, Norwich relief and multiple certificates of pending litigation to address an ongoing fraud
  • 2371143 Ontario Inc. v. Canaan Art Centre Inc., 2024 ONSC 1004 — successfully brought a summary judgment on liability and damages for a commercial lease enforcement, and obtained a substantial indemnity costs award
  • Markham Travel Health Clinic et al. v. Tians Medical Services Inc., 2023 ONSC (unreported) – successfully resisted an injunction arising in the context of a contract dispute related to Covid-19 testing
  • Brookfield Residential (Ontario) Limited v. Yuskov, 2022 ONSC 2162 (unreported) – brought a motion for summary judgment and secured damages against a purchaser who failed to close on a property transaction
  • Maple Equipment & Leasing Inc. v. DS&D Personnel Inc., 2022 ONSC 2097— counsel on appeal to the Divisional Court involving the terms of a shotgun buy/sell agreement
  • R. v. Pogachar, 2021 ONSC 5826 – counsel on a complex section 11(b) Charter application seeking stay of proceedings of securities fraud and theft over

Awards & Rankings

Firm

Publications

  • Romeih S., Reflecting Economic Realities: When Should Courts Deviate from the Standard Prejudgment Interest? (Keeping Tabs, Winter 2024)
  • Romeih, S. J.B. v. Ontario: Duty of Care in the Context of Child Protection Cases (Toronto Law Journal, May 2020)

Presentations & Speaking Engagements

  • Lucas v. Semelhago: Is it Open Season for Specific Performance? in Justice Darla A. WIlson (ed.), Annual Review of Civil Litigation, 2024 (Thomson Reuters) (co-authored with Gordon Vance and Daniel Milton)
  • Presenter, "Keeping Current for Civil Litigators Series", Ontario Bar Association, February 27, 2024
  • Moderator, “Build Your Book”, Group of Racialized Ontario Women Litigators, November 29, 2023

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