Lawyer Profile
Irfan Kara
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Irfan is a trusted advocate for employers across industries, providing strategic counsel on the full spectrum of workplace matters, managing complex, high-stakes employment disputes and delivering practical and risk-based strategic advice on a wide range of employment issues.
Irfan has acted for and advised several major financial institutions and large organizations on issues relating to executive departures and departing investment advisors. He has also acted as counsel to defendants in a number of precedent-setting national employment class actions including in matters on behalf of Canada Cartage and the Canadian Hockey League.
Irfan has appeared as counsel at all levels of court in Ontario and at various Ontario administrative tribunals, including the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. Irfan has also appeared as counsel across the country, including in Alberta, British Columbia and Nova Scotia.
Tarion Warranty Corporation, Ontario's regulator of new home construction, in trial-level, appellate and administrative proceedings involving construction and regulatory disputes
an international pharmaceutical company in multiple product liability class actions—including proposed actions in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and three class actions at trial in Québec and Ontario—concerning two prescription combined oral contraceptives
Olympic athlete Mandy Bujold and the Canadian Olympic Committee in an arbitration against the International Olympic Committee before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland with respect to a gender equity and discrimination challenge of the Tokyo 2020 qualification process
Justice Donald McLeod in the successful dismissal of a complaint before the Ontario Judicial Council
Canadian Hockey League, Québec Major Junior Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League, Western Hockey League and multiple junior hockey teams in multiple class actions in Québec, Ontario and Alberta concerning the employment status of amateur student hockey players
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2014 (ON)