Notable Cases
- Case Type: Sexual Assault – Youth File
- Outcome: Stay of Proceedings after successful 276 application
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Kim Hardstaff
A young person attending high school was accused of sexual assault...
- Case Type: Sexual Interference
- Outcome: Common Law Peace Bond
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Kim Hardstaff
Two individuals met on a dating app and the complainant was underage...
- Case Type: Dangerous Driving Causing Death
- Outcome: Charges withdrawn in docket
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Kim Hardstaff
Crown was persuaded nothing criminal occurred during a tragic automobile accident...
- Case Type: Fraud Over $5,000
- Outcome: Negotiated a joint submission of two years.
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Kim Hardstaff
Theft from employer over the course of several years (approximately $400,000)...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Case dismissed on day of trial
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Kim Hardstaff
A young person was accused of sexual assault by his ex-girlfriend...
- Case Type: Sexual Interference
- Outcome: Contested sentencing.
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Kim Hardstaff
Accused instructed counsel to plead guilty and achieve the best possible sentencing outcome...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Common Law Peace Bond
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Kim Hardstaff
A woman was charged with sexual assault on a teenager at a movie theatre...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Not guilty
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Kim Hardstaff
Husband and wife separated. A year later, the wife alleged sexual offences...
- Case Type: Homicide - Second Degree Murder
- Outcome: Stayed
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Robert LaValley
The client was a youth charged with second degree murder...
- Case Type: Homicide - First Degree Murder
- Outcome: Guilty plea to manslaughter
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Robert LaValley
Client was charged with first degree murder of a child in her care...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Mistrial
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Robert LaValley
Client was convicted after trial of sexual assault on a child...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Not Guilty Verdict
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Robert LaValley
Our client was a youth charged with a sexual assault on an ex-girlfriend...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Not Guilty Verdict
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Robert LaValley
Our client was charged with sexual assault, and choking after a tinder date...
- Case Type: Sexual assault, sexual interference, and luring an individual under the age of 16
- Outcome: Acquitted of all charges
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Robert LaValley
Our client was charged with luring, sexual assault and sexual interference...
- Case Type: Arson and Fraud
- Outcome: Charges Stayed
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Robert LaValley
Our client was accused of intentionally burning down his house, and his neighbors’ houses for insurance money...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Charges Withdrawn
- Date: 2025
- Defended by: Eamon O'Keeffe
Our client was a physician, accused by an employee of sexually assaulting...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Charges Withdrawn; Not Guilty Verdict
- Date: 2025
- Defended by: Eamon O'Keeffe
Our client, the principal of a Junior High School was accused of sexual assault...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Charges Withdrawn
- Date: 2026
- Defended by: Eamon O'Keeffe
Our client was charged with sexual assault after a woman suffered an apparent psychiatric episode...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Not Guilty Verdict
- Date: 2024
- Defended by: Eamon O'Keeffe
Our client was a divorced father with addictions issues, sharing custody of his son...
- Case Type: Homicide - First Degree Murder
- Outcome: House Arrest
- Date: 2023
Husband of 50 years ends his wife’s medical suffering and is charged with first degree murder...
- Case Type: Homicide - Second Degree Murder
- Outcome: Probation
- Date: 2023
Youth initially charged with second degree murder resolved successfully...
- Case Type: Homicide - Attempted Murder
- Outcome: Not Criminally Responsible
- Date: 2022
Adult daughter drove her car into her mother pinning her between the vehicle and a wall, causing life threatening injuries...
- Case Type: Traffic - Dangerous Driving
- Outcome: License Suspension
- Date: 2024
Client was charged with dangerous driving causing death. He failed to stop at a stop sign on a rural highway...
- Case Type: Impaired Driving - Impaired Driving
- Outcome: Dismissed
- Date: 2025
Client was charged with impaired driving after driving his vehicle into a storm water pond...
- Case Type: Motor Vehicle - Motor Vehicle Offence Involving Fatalities
- Outcome: Dismissed
- Date: 2025
Client was charged after entering onto a highway and colliding with a motorcycle...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Unfit to Stand Trial
- Date: 2024
Client facing serious charges. Defence counsel had significant concerns respecting client’s memory...
- Case Type: Drugs - Trafficking in Narcotics
- Outcome: Dismissed
- Date: 2022
Client charged with trafficking 2.2 kilograms of cocaine in a shopping center parking lot...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Acquitted
- Date: 2024
Client charged with sexual assault in British Columbia...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Not Guilty
- Date: 2023
Our client’s marriage deteriorated and ended in divorce...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Not Guilty
- Date: 2024
Our client was the Chief of a First Nation. During an election campaign...
- Case Type: Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault
- Outcome: Dismissed
- Date: 2024
A woman went to the RCMP and reported that our client had sexually assaulted her 50 years earlier...
- Case Type: Kidnapping
- Outcome: Dismissed
- Date: 2025
Two accused were charged with kidnapping with a firearm. Both accused found...
- Case Type: Firearms Trafficking
- Outcome: House Arrest
- Date: 2025
Client charged with trafficking two restricted firearms. Given the accused’s unique...
- Case Type: Homicide - First Degree Murder
- Outcome: Manslaughter
- Date: 2009
Client charged as a party to four counts of first-degree murder involving the deaths...

