Background

Barbara McIsaac is Counsel in the Ottawa office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP where she advises private sector clients, governments and government agencies on issues relating to trade and procurement law, Charter and Human Rights issues, legislative mandates, jurisdiction and the conduct of investigations. Barbara is one of the leading experts in Canada in privacy and access to information law and co-author of The Law of Privacy in Canada (Carswell, 2000). She served as senior counsel to the Somalia Inquiry and senior counsel for the Government of Canada for the Arar Inquiry.

Barbara received her LLB from Queen's University in 1973 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1975 and the Nunavut Bar in 2010. She was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1989.

Areas of Practice

§         Privacy and Access to Information

§         Public and Administrative Law

§         Trade and Procurement Law

§         Commercial Litigation

Ranking and Recognitions

§         Recognized in Best Lawyers, Public Law

§        Recognized in the 2009 edition of Chambers Global – The World's Leading Lawyers (International Trade/WTO: Public Procurement)

§         Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer Review Rating

§         Recognized in the 2009 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Litigation – Public Law)