FRANK ADDARIO
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More About Frank
Frank leads ALG’s criminal, quasi-criminal, white collar criminal defence and investigations practice. He is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer, regularly appearing in the trial courts and on appeals before the Ontario Court of Appeal. He has one of the leading Supreme Court of Canada practices in the country, having appeared in that Court over 40 times as counsel. Frank is an advisor with the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute.
In 2016, he was awarded the G. Arthur Martin Criminal Justice Medal for his life-long commitment to the criminal law. Frank is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the premier organization of trial lawyers in North America. He is also a fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. He is ranked by Chambers Canada for white collar crime and government investigations and as a top criminal law practitioner nationwide. Who’s Who Legal recommends Frank as a Global Leader in business crime defence and investigations.
He was a Director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association from 2004 to 2021 and is a past President of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association.
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Notable Cases As Counsel
R. v. Ste-Marie, 2022 SCC 3
R. v. Huang, 2021 ONSC 8372
R. c. Rizzuto, 2021 QCCA 1789
McLeod (Re) (2 June 2021) (OJC)
R. v. Baskaran, 2020 ONCA 25
Huang v. Canada (Attorney General), 2019 FC 1122
R. v. Greeley, 2019 ONCJ 907
R. v. Walker, 2019 ONCA 765
R. v. Esseghaier, 2019 ONCA 672
R. v. Othman, 2018 ONCA 1073
R. v. Wheeler, 2018 ONCA 1069
R. v. J.C.P., 2018 ONCA 986
R. v. MacIsaac, 2018 ONCA 650
R. v. Cody, 2017 SCC 31
R. v. Dunstan, 2017 ONCA 432
Camp v. Canada (Attorney General), 2017 FC 240
S.C. v. N.S., 2017 ONSC 353
R. v. Zvolensky, 2017 ONCA 273
R. v. Ahmed, 2017 ONCA 76
World Bank Group v. Wallace, 2016 SCC (WATCH WEBCAST)
R. v. MacIsaac, 2015 ONCA 587
R. v. Badgerow, 2014 ONCA 272
R. v. Cook, 2014 ONCA 170
R. v. Conception, 2014 SCC 60 (WATCH WEBCAST)
R. v. Rocheleau, 2013 ONCA 679
U.S.A. v. Nguyen, 2013 ONSC 4842
R. v. Frimpong, 2013 ONCA 243
R. v. Huang, 2013 ONCA 240
R. v. A.R., 2012 ONCJ 268
R. v. Cole, 2012 SCC 53 (WATCH WEBCAST)
R. v. Cole (2011), 269 C.C.C. (3d) 402 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. Yadegari (2011), 276 O.A.C. 322 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. Turpin (2011), 272 C.C.C. (3d) 340 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. A.R., 2011 ONCJ 810
R. v. Badgerow (2010), 260 O.A.C. 273 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. Grant, [2009] 2 S.C.R. 353
R. v. Batisse (2009), 241 C.C.C. (3d) 491 (Ont. C.A.)
Branch v. Ontario (Ministry of the Environment) (2009), 93 O.R. (3d) 665 (Ont. Sup. Ct.)
Tele-Mobile Co. v. Ontario, [2008] 1 S.C.R. 305
R. v. Luedecke (2008), 236 C.C.C. (3d) 317 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. Sauvé (2004), 182 C.C.C. (3d) 321 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. Glad Day Bookshop (2004), 183 C.C.C. (3d) 449 (Ont. Sup. Ct.)
R. v. Dimitrov (2003), 181 CCC (3d) 554 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. Williams (2003), 181 C.C.C. (3d) 414 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. O’Connor (2002), 170 C.C.C. (3d) 365 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. Ruzic, [2001] 1 S.C.R. 687
R. v. Barrow (2001), 155 C.C.C. (3d) 362 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. Suzack (2000), 141 C.C.C. (3d) 449 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. Babinski (1999), 135 C.C.C. (3d) 1 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. Laws (1998), 128 C.C.C. (3d) 516 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. Caputo (1997), 114 C.C.C. (3d) 1 (Ont. C.A.)
United States of America v. Dynar, [1997] 2 S.C.R. 462
R. v. Paintings, Drawings, and Photographic Slides of Paintings (1995), 97 C.C.C. (3d) 290 (Ont. Ct. Gen. Div.)
R. v. Durette, [1994] 1 S.C.R. 469
R. v. Greenbaum, [1993] 1 S.C.R. 674
R. v. DeSousa, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 944
R. v. Lachance, [1990] 2 S.C.R. 1490
Notable Cases As Intervener for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association
R. v. Mills, 2019 SCC 22
Quebec (Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions) v. Jodoin, 2017 SCC 26
R. v. Saikaley, 2017 ONCA 374
R. v. Hart, 2014 SCC 52
R. v. Yumnu et. al., 2012 SCC 73
R. v. Emms, 2012 SCC 73
R. v. Prokofiew, 2012 SCC 49
R. v. Banks (2007), 216 C.C.C. (3d) 19 (Ont. C.A.)
R. v. Golden, [2001] 3 S.C.R. 679
Notable Cases As Intervener for the Canadian Conference for the Arts
Notable Cases As Intervener for The Advocates' Society
Notable Cases As Intervener for the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Notable Cases As Intervener for the Criminal Lawyers' Association
Groia v. the Law Society of Upper Canada, 2018 SCC 7
R. v. Jordan, 2016 SCC 27
R. v. N.S., 2012 SCC 72
R. v. Côté, 2011 SCC 46
R. v. Suberu, 2009 SCC 32
Canada (Attorney General) v. Horvath, 2009 ONCA 732
R. v. A.M., 2008 SCC 19
R. v. Kang-Brown, 2008 SCC 18
R. v. Clayton, 2007 SCC 32
R. v. Shearing, 2002 SCC 58
R. v. Biniaris, 2000 SCC 15
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Notable Media Publications
Addario, Frank, “If the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t an emergency demanding real leadership, what is?” The Globe and Mail, September 8, 2021
Addario, Frank, “Don’t bring patronage back into naming of judges”, The Toronto Star, February 3, 2020
Addario, Frank, “Courtroom chaos is coming to Ontario – and the blame lies at the feet of its attorney-general”, The Globe and Mail, January 30, 2020
Addario, Frank and James Foy, “The Supreme Court of Canada’s ‘new transparency’ is anything but”, The Globe and Mail, December 16, 2018
Addario, Frank and Megan Savard, “The fast and the furious 11(b): Is the speedy trial a dying franchise?” The Advocates Journal, Summer 2017
Addario, Frank, “Role of Defence Counsel Poorly Understood”, The Toronto Star, February 2015
Addario, Frank and Megan Savard, “R. v. Lahiry, Unreasonable Delay, and How Life Imitates the Planet Pluto”, For the Defence, June 2013
Addario, Frank, “Penny-Ante Legal Aid System Creates Two Tiers Of Justice”, The Toronto Star, September 28, 2009
Addario, Frank, “Tough-on-Crime Politicians Should Focus on Prevention”, The Globe and Mail, May 25, 2009
Addario, Frank, “Underfunding The Real Crisis”, The Law Times, April 14, 2008
Addario, Frank, “Judges are Constitutional Guardians, Not Cheerleaders for the Police”, The Globe and Mail, September 17, 2007
Addario, Frank and Alan Gold, “The Defence Versus Justice Moldaver”, The Toronto Star, December 2006