Gerald practices criminal, constitutional, administrative, and select civil litigation. He conducts trials and appeals. He has defended clients investigated by the RCMP Integrated Market Enforcement Teams, OSC Joint Serious Offences Team, OPP, Anti-Rackets Branch, Ministry of Labour, Canada Border Services Agency, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and special committees of boards of directors. He has been counsel in over 20 cases at the Supreme Court of Canada (raising issues of privacy, foreign corruption, insider trading, and medical marihuana). He is an advocacy advisor with the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute, as well as a member of the Pro Bono Inmate Appeal Program (a roster of lawyers who argue appeals for inmates in the Court of Appeal for Ontario).
Gerald often acts for lawyers and law firms. He has defended lawyers in negligence claims, advised them on privacy breaches, represented them in ineffective assistance of counsel appeals, and defended them against conflict-of-interest allegations. He has also acted for lawyers facing subpoenas to testify in court.
Gerald is co-author of the 8th and 9th editions of Sentencing (LexisNexis); co-author of Digital Evidence: A Practitioner’s Handbook (Emond Publishing); co-editor of Digital Privacy: Criminal, Civil and Regulatory Litigation (LexisNexis); and co-editor of Litigating Artificial Intelligence (Emond Publishing). He teaches on the faculty of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada’s National Criminal Law Program. He is a Bencher of the Law Society of Ontario, a Trustee of the Law Foundation of Ontario, and an adjudicator on the Law Society Tribunal.