Marcus is comitted to fairness and justice

Marcus practices at a boutique law firm in the areas of labour and employment, human rights and administrative law. He has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario, as well as Federal Court and the Supreme Court of Canada, and represented clients before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and at other administrative hearings. He regularly represents clients in negotiations and mediations, inside and out of formal court proceedings.

Marcus represented a coalition of rape crisis centres in its arguments about the unconstitutionality of Canada’s sex work laws. He won a 4-year legal battle to force the Ministry of the Attorney General to disclose secret guidelines about criminal prosecutions of HIV-positive people. With Mika Imai, he challenged the repeal of Ontario’s inclusive sexual health education curriculum on behalf of an 11-year-old trans girl. In 2016, he organized a group of lawyers to provide defences to those who had been caught in an undercover police sting at Marie Curtis Park. He was a longtime volunteer on the Board of Directors of the HIV/AIDS Legal Clinic of Ontario, retiring from the board in 2020.

Marcus has spoken at numerous events, including the Law Union of Ontario annual conference, Freedom to Read Week, and the Canadian Labour Congress’s Rise Up! Conference. He is a former volunteer judge of the Wilson Moot.

He is a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

REcent cases

• Representing a coalition of rape crisis centres in sex work challenge

  CASWLR v Canada

• Defending defamation claims against Twitter user

  Mondal et al v Evans-Bitten et al

• Challenging the repeal of Ontario’s sex ed curriculum

  AB v Ontario (Minister of Education)

• Fighting for diverse law school applicants

  Trinity Western University v Law Society of Upper Canada

• Fighting for HIV+ people in criminal justice

  Ontario v Ontario (Information & Privacy Commissioner)  

• Challenging police raids of men cruising Marie Curtis Park

  Leading to the withdrawal of charges

• Advocating for a broader expungement of unjust criminal convictions

  Senate on amending Bill C-66 on behalf of civil society groups