Douglas Hamilton

Douglas Hamilton

Doug Hamilton is a partner in our Environment, Health and Safety Group of our Litigation Department in Toronto. He has practised exclusively in the areas of environmental, and health and safety law since 1988. Mr. Hamilton represents private and public sector clients on a broad range of environmental, and health and safety matters and is widely recognized as a pre-eminent lawyer in Canada in his areas of practice.

Mr. Hamilton advises on all legal aspects of environmental and health and safety matters, including criminal litigation relating to environmental, and health and safety offences, civil litigation, administrative tribunal representation and appellate litigation. He also advises on site remediation issues, corporate transactions and projects with environmental and health and safety implications, as well as compliance with existing and proposed legislation.

He appears in the 2007 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, a guide to the leading law firms and practitioners in Canada, as a leading lawyer in the area of environmental law.

Mr. Hamilton received his LLB from Queen's University in 1983, his LLM in 1987 from the University of London and his B.Sc. (Hons.) in 1980 from Queen's University. His extensive training and background in science, especially in biology and chemistry, has been extremely useful in his practice. Mr. Hamilton was called to the Ontario bar in 1986.

A former world champion and Olympic medallist in rowing, he continues to be active as a volunteer in amateur sport in Canada. From 1989 to 1997, he was in charge of Canada's highly successful international rowing program. More recently, Mr. Hamilton was vice-president of Sports and Venues for Toronto's 2008 Olympic Bid.

A recent survey of the top Canadian corporations ranked McCarthy Tétrault's Toronto office as the best law firm in the Greater Toronto Area for environmental law.