Overview
Monica Creery is a research lawyer in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group at Goodmans.
Monica’s practice focuses on complex litigation requiring sophisticated analysis and creative thinking. She develops arguments and prepares submissions on critical matters at all levels of court, and drafts advisory memoranda and opinions. Monica has assisted in representing private and public sector clients in proceedings involving issues of corporate, commercial, contract, insolvency and administrative law, including the certification of securities and product liability class actions.
Monica also provides training in legal research and writing to the firm’s articling students and junior associates.
Expertise
-
Class Actions
-
Corporate and Commercial Litigation
-
Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Litigation
-
Energy
-
Food and Drug Regulatory and Litigation
-
Health and Pharmaceutical Litigation
-
Insolvency Litigation
-
Intellectual Property Litigation
-
Judicial Review
-
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
-
Patent Prosecution, Licensing and Transactions
-
Patent, Trademark and Copyright Litigation
-
PMPRB Strategies and Litigation
-
Procurement
-
Regulatory, Administrative and Public Law
-
Securities Litigation
-
Trademark Prosecution, Licensing and Transactions
Featured Work
Monica’s representative work includes acting for:
- Cineplex in a successful claim for breach of an arrangement agreement
- Atlantic Lottery Corporation in a successful appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, where the Court overturned a certification order and dismissed a class action relating to video lottery terminals
- Chevron Canada in upholding the principle of corporate separateness to resist enforcement of a $9.5 billion Ecuadorian judgment in the Court of Appeal for Ontario and successfully resisting leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada
- Court-Appointed Monitor of Nortel Networks in defending an array of claims from various jurisdictions raising issues never previously determined
- Apotex Inc. in a number of actions in Ontario and Quebec seeking redress for losses caused by invalidated patents, including claims under the English Statute of Monopolies (1624) and Ontario Statute of Monopolies (1897)
- Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation in respect of procurements relating to the modernization of gaming in Ontario
Credentials
Professional Involvement
Monica has contributed to a number of internal and external professional development programs and to the writing and editing of client communications. She co-authored the contract law update for the Law Society of Ontario’s Civil Appeals: The Year in Review (2018) and the class action update for Civil Appeals: The Year in Review (2015).
Credentials
- McGill University, LL.B., 1993, First Class Honours
- University of Ottawa, B.A., 1986, Honours, Translation
- Queen's University, B.A., 1982
Professional Affiliations
- Law Society of Ontario
- Canadian Bar Association
Insights
-
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Climate Change Suits Against the Government: The Limits of Court Action
In recent years, governments in Canada have been sued in various ways in respect of climate change. Invariably, the government will seek to have the claim dismissed because it is not “justiciable… -
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Novel Claim of Negligent Commercialization Permitted to Proceed
In Darmar Farms Inc. v. Syngenta Canada Inc., the Ontario Court of Appeal allowed a claim of “negligent commercialization” to proceed where the introduction of a new product into the market provoked…
News & Events
-
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Goodmans lawyers score major victory in landmark Supreme Court of Canada case on class actions in Atlantic Lottery Corp. Inc. v. Babstock.
On July 24, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed a class action against Atlantic Lottery Corporation, holding that waiver of tort is not an independent cause of action. A Goodmans litigation…