Golnaz’s practice focuses on class actions and complex multiplaintiff actions. She has acted as counsel in a broad range of matters involving Crown liability and institutional abuse, professional liability, pharmaceutical and product liability, mass torts and industrial disasters, securities misrepresentation, and consumer protection. Golnaz has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario and Quebec, and the Supreme Court of Canada. She represented the plaintiffs in the 71-day trial and appeals in Barker v. Barker, a historical institutional abuse action that established the Crown's fiduciary duty to involuntary patients in government-operated hospitals. She is class counsel in Banman v. Ontario (the first certified class action under the amended CPA), Robertson v. Ontario and Pugliese v. Chartwell (COVID-19 outbreaks in long-term care homes), DALI v. Barrick Gold (securities misrepresentation claim relating to Barrick's Pascua Lama mine), Kirsh v. Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pohoresky v. Otsuka Canada Pharmaceutical (side effects of psychiatric medications) and Corless v. Bell Mobility Inc. and Wellman v. TELUS (rounding up calls). Golnaz is Vice-Chair of the OBA Class Actions Practice Group and a co-author of Class Actions in Canada: Cases, Notes, and Materials (3d Ed).
