• More About Laura

    Laura Metcalfe is an associate at ALG. She maintains a criminal and regulatory law practice. She has appeared as counsel before all levels of court in Ontario and British Columbia and has represented police officers in Police Service Act hearings. Prior to joining ALG, Laura spent 5 years working with a top criminal lawyer in Toronto.
     

    Laura earned her law degree from the University of Ottawa, where she earned awards including the Regional Senior Justice Prize for highest standing in Appellate Advocacy and the Eric Bergsten Award for Winner of the Moot at the international round in Vienna at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. She also gained experience as a student intern for the judges at the Ottawa Ontario Court of Justice. She has a B.A.H. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Carleton University.

     

    Laura co-authors “A practical guide to the Charter: Section 10(b)” and “A practical guide to the Charter: Section 11(b)” together with Alan D. Gold and Michael Lacy. She is a member of the second chair litigation roster of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association.

Notable Cases

R. v. Hills, 2023 SCC 2

R. v. Brown, 2022 ONCJ 597

R. v. D.D., 2022 ONCA 786

R. v. Morash, 2021 ONCA 335

R. v. Theriault, 2021 ONCA 517

R. v. Ahmed, 2020 ONCA 572

R. v. Brar, 2020 ONSC 4740

R. v. Ghotra, 2020 ONCA 373

R. v. Lumby, [2020] O.J. No. 220

R. v. Smithen-Davis, 2020 ONCA 834

R. v. Theriault, 2020 ONSC 3317

R. v. Atkinson, 2019 ONSC 7132

R. v. Doobay, 2019 ONSC 7272

R. v. Duong, 2019 BCCA 299

R. v. Macgregor, 2019 ONCJ 80

R. v. McBride, 2018 BCSC 865

R. v. Voong, 2018 ONCJ 352

R. v. Walia, 2018 ONCA 197

R. v. McBride, 2017 BCSC 1016

Notable Media Publications

Co-author with Jonathan Rosenthal, "Highway Traffic Act Consequences in Criminal Driving Cases", For the Defence Vol. 43, No. 4 (August 2023)

Co-author with Wes Dutcher-Walls, "Expanding the rationale of minimization to sexual, medical, and religious communications", For the Defence Vol. 42, No. 3 (September 2022)

Co-author with Alan D. Gold & Michael Lacy, A Practical Guide to the Charter: Section 10(b)(Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2020)

"The Privilege against Self-Incrimination," chapter in The Law of Objections (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2019)

Co-author with Alan D. Gold & Michael Lacy, A Practical Guide to the Charter: Section 11(b)(Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2019)

Co-author with Alan D. Gold, "Using the spirit of Jordan to benefit your
client at the sentencing stage," For the Defence, Vol. 39, No. 2

"Reconsidering the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences under section 235(1)(e) post-Luxton," 6:2 Western Journal of Legal Studies (2016)