2007 - negotiated the withdrawal of first degree murder and kidnapping charges for a young client.
2007 - obtained a substantial family equalization settlement outside of the statutory six year limitation in Guelph.
2006 - obtained for a father sole custody of his two young daughters in Markham.
2006 - reduced a charge of first degree murder to second degree murder at a preliminary hearing in Scarborough.
2006 - obtained an order in the Federal Court to quash a deportation order against a client from Taiwan.
2005 - successfully obtained bail for a client charged with first degree murder.
2004 - 2005 - successfully applied for judicial review of a negative immigration decision against a single mother from South Korea with a Canadian born child. This was one of the first cases in Ontario in which an immigrant used cultural differences between her country of origin and Canada to avoid deportation and gain permanent residence status in Canada.
2004 - defended an Owen Sound man of the murder of his co-worker. The charge was withdrawn by the Crown.
2002 - defended a man charged with kidnapping and first degree murder of the principal of Great Lakes College in Brampton. The charged was reduced to manslaughter and the other charges were withdrawn by the Crown. (This case will be featured in the /Forensic Factor/ program on the /Discovery Channel/ in November 2005).
1997 - 2002 - represented applicants in several judicial reviews before the Federal Court of the decisions of immigration officers.
1998 - 2002 - represented numerous appellants in their appeals before the Immigration Appeal Board from the rejection of their sponsorship of their spouses in China. Several eventually gained permanent residence in Canada.
1997 - defended a man charged with criminal harassment in Windsor, Ontario who was acquitted in two hours by a jury after a seven day trial.
1995 - defended a man in Kitchener for the alleged stabbing death of his mother. The man was found to be not criminally responsible by reason of insanity.
1994 - defended a man in Guelph charged with the first degree murder of his wife who had inexplicitly disappeared. The man was found not guilty.
1992 - defended a woman in Brampton charged with the first degree murder of her husband. Premenstrual Syndrome (P.M.S.) was used as part of her defense (this defense was rarely used in murder case in Ontario) resulting in the reduction of the charge to manslaughter.
1990 - defended Rui Wen Pan in Toronto charged with the killing and dismemberment of his girlfriend, violinist Selina Shen, in his trial which ended in a hung jury. (Several books were written about the case; on of them was written by Wan Man Chan and published in Hong Kong).