Sarah Latimer

Lawyer

Sarah Latimer. A female lawyer with long blond hair, wearing glasses, a black blazer, and a red top, standing in front of a blurred office building background.

Sarah is an empathetic, practical, and persistent lawyer who works across the firm’s practice areas.

She represents individuals and families in guardianship, estates, powers of attorney, and capacity matters. Sarah appears at hearings and appeals before the Superior Court of Justice and Ontario Court of Appeal. In the Superior Court, Sarah has been appointed as section 3 counsel for persons alleged to be incapable and as amicus curiae or “friend of the court”.

Sarah also has a civil litigation constitutional litigation practice, representing clients seeking to challenge laws or to hold public officials, hospitals, lawyers, and police services to account.

Sarah obtained her BA (Honours) in Psychology from Queen's University. She was selected for the senior status law program at the University of Cambridge (Lucy Cavendish College) and graduated with a BA (Honours) in Law in 2010. Sarah served as a judicial law clerk to the Superior Court of Justice judges in Toronto and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2013.


Credentials

University of Alberta: 2021
Certificate, Indigenous Canada

Call to the Bar: 2013, Ontario

National Committee on Accreditation: 2011 Certificate of Qualification

University of Cambridge: 2010
BA (Honours) (after 2015,
MA), Law (Lucy Cavendish College)

Queen’s University: 2007
BA (Honours) with distinction, Psychology Major & International Development Minor


Representative Cases

P.P. v. Ashley Oliver and the Ontario Public Guardian and Trustee, 2023 ONSC 5701

G. v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2019 ONCA 264, affirmed on appeal at 2020 SCC 38

Barker v. Patel, 2018 ONCA 926

Thompson v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2016 ONCA 676


slatimer@swadron.com
Tel:
(416) 362-1234 ext. 228
Fax:
(416) 362-1232