Ryder Gilliland is a litigation Partner. He has a wide-ranging litigation practice involving defamation, constitutional, securities, competition, tax, class-action and general corporate-commercial litigation.

Ryder has appeared as counsel at all levels of courts in Ontario, as well as in the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada.

In the area of defamation law, Ryder has acted for some of the largest newspapers and broadcasters in Canada and the United States, and regularly provides prepublication advice to media organizations and publishers on legal issues relating to copyright, defamation, freedom of information, publication bans and issues specific to Internet publication. He also advises and acts for corporations dealing with reputation management issues.

Ryder speaks Spanish fluently, and has assisted Latin American clients seeking legal remedies in Canada. He has also obtained orders to obtain evidence in Latin America (Chile) and has attended in that jurisdiction to take foreign evidence.

Ryder speaks at conferences, writes regularly, and holds memberships with the Canadian Bar Association, The Advocates' Society and Ad Idem (Advocates in Defence of Free Expression). He is also an executive member of the Civil Litigation Section of the Ontario Bar Association.

Reported cases that Ryder has appeared as counsel include the following:

Supreme Court of Canada

Ontario (Public Safety and Security) v. Criminal Lawyers' Association, 2010 SCC 23

Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. v. Canada, 2010 SCC 21

Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. v. Ontario, [2005] S.C.J. No. 41 (co-counsel)

Federal Court of Canada

Canada (Commissioner of Competition) v. Labatt Brewing Co., [2008] F.C.J. No. 127

Toronto Star Newspapers v. Canada, [2007] F.C.J. No. 165 (T.D.)

Mahjoub v. Canada, [2004] F.C.J. No. 1335

Ontario Court of Appeal

Millstone Consulting Services Inc. v. Cleary, [2009] O.J. No. 4510

Tabor v. Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan, [2009] O.J. No. 3099

Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. v. Canada (2009), 94 O.R. (3d) 82 (co-counsel)

R. v. Canadian Broadcasting Corp., [2008] O.J. No. 1966

The Criminal Lawyers' Association v. Ontario (Public Safety and Security) 2007 ONCA 392 (co-counsel)

Hancock v. Lunn, [2006] O.J. No. 294

Khan v. Metroland Printing, Publishing and Distributing, (2005) 75 O.R.(3d) 165 (co-counsel)

Bangoura v. Washington Post, [2005] O.J. No. 3849 (co-counsel)

R. v. Truscott, (2006) 81 O.R. (3d) 689 (co-counsel)

Truscott (Re), [2005] O.J. No. 2667 (co-counsel)

Miguna v. Toronto Police Services Board, [2005] O.J. No. 107

Superior Court of Justice

Whitcombe v. Manderson, [2009] O.J. No. 5482

R v. Tippett, [2009] O.J. No. 4865

R v. Valentine 2009 CarswellOnt. 5190

R v. Valentine 2009 CarswellOnt. 5191

R v. Riley, [2009] O.J. No. 3377

Black v. Breeden, [2009] O.J. No. 2006

Black v. Breeden, [2009] O.J. No. 1292

Rupic v. Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., [2009] O.J. No. 101

Certicom Corp. v. Research in Motion, [2009] O.J. No. 252

R. v. Y. (N.); 2008 CarswellOnt 2821

R v. J.S.R., [2008] O.J. No. 4160

Cosgrove (Re), [2008] O.J. No. 2467

Nelson Barbados Group v. Cox, [2008] O.J. No. 1455

R v. Sandham, [2007] O.J. No. 5310

Realtysellers (Ontario) Ltd. v. Toronto Real Estate Board, [2007] O.J. No. 4528

Ontario (Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services) v. Ontario (Information and Privacy Commissioner), [2007] O.J. No. 4233

Canadian Broadcasting Corp. et al. v. Her Majesty the Queen et. al. (2007), 84 O.R. (3d) 243

R v. Steele (2007), CarswellOnt 3045

Navionics Inc. v. Nautical Data International Inc., [2006] O.J. No. 5397

Navionics Inc. v. Nautical Data International Inc., [2006] O.J. No. 1396 (Co-counsel)

Halton Hills (Town) v. Kerouac, [2006] O.J. No. 1473

Laws v. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., [2006] O.J. No. 1651

R. v. Mason, [2005] O.J. No. 5294

Montague (Township) v. Page, [2006] O.J. No. 331

Bhaduria v. Toronto Star Newspapers, [2006] O.J. No. 192

R. v. McCormack, [2005] O.J. No. 5040

R. v. Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., [2005] O.J. No. 5533

Hancock v. Kawartha Lakes This Week, [2005] O.J. NO. 2388

Bennett Environmental Inc. v. Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., [2004] O.J. No. 2456

R. v. Fatima. 2004 CarswellOnt 1799

Trizec Properties Inc. v. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 2004 32 O.R. (3d) 265 (co-counsel)

Trizec Properties Inc. v. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., [2004] O.J. No. 323 (co-counsel)

Mitron Sports Enterprises Inc. v. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, [2003] O.J. No. 6028

Bangoura v. Washington Post, (2004) D.L.R. (4th) 564 (co-counsel)

R. v. Haffner, [2003] O.J. No. 6027

Oliver v. Windsor Casino Ltd., [2002] O.J. No. 1133

New Brunswick Court

Bell Aliant v. Rogers Communications - 2010 NBQB 166