Aidan’s practice focuses on municipal and police liability, as well as private occupiers’ liability, motor vehicle accidents, complex estate disputes and a range of other civil matters. Aidan has obtained success at every level of court in Ontario, from the Small Claims Court to the Court of Appeal.
As a student, Aidan served as the National Director of the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, where he directed the advocacy efforts of Canada’s oldest national Jewish organization. He also served as a fellowship co-chair and summer intern at the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee.
Aidan was elected as a Student Representative to the Governing Council of the University of Toronto for four terms, where he participated in the budget approval process and judged student disciplinary cases on the Academic Appeals Committee and the Executive Committee.
Aidan is fluent in Hebrew and has intermediate knowledge of Modern Standard Arabic and French.
Experience
- Successfully struck and/or stayed all aspects of a complex claim against municipal employees and police officers: 2021 ONSC 1746 (CanLII) | Nendos v. Toronto Animal Services | CanLII
- Successfully obtained an order that an opposing party undergo a capacity assessment: 2022 ONSC 3378 (CanLII) | Gefen v. Gefen et al. | CanLII
- Successfully had a party declared incapable of managing property and instructing counsel, and had a neutral guardian of property and litigation guardian appointed: 2022 ONSC 6259 (CanLII) | Gefen v. Gefen et al. | CanLII (decision upheld on appeal at 2023 ONCA 406 (CanLII) | Gefen v. Gefen | CanLII)
- Successfully obtained urgent summary judgment on behalf of a mortgagee against a mortgagor who ceased making payments, refused to vacate the property and was allowing the property to fall into disrepair: 2023, Almarjoy Managements Ltd. v Khursigara (unreported)
- Successfully struck a Family Law Act claim as derivative after the primary plaintiff's claim had been barred by the WSIAT: 2025, The Estate of the Late Tom Dedes et al v Toronto Transit Commission et al (unreported)
- Successfully secured summary judgment in respect of a readjustment clause in agreement of purchase and sale, defeating a limitations argument based on the Real Property Limitations Act: 2025, Rolling Meadows Land Development Corporation v Pine Glen Thorold Inc. (unreported)
- Successfully struck and/or stayed all aspects of a complex claim against municipal employees and police officers: 2021 ONSC 1746 (CanLII) | Nendos v. Toronto Animal Services | CanLII
- Successfully obtained an order that an opposing party undergo a capacity assessment: 2022 ONSC 3378 (CanLII) | Gefen v. Gefen et al. | CanLII
- Successfully had a party declared incapable of managing property and instructing counsel, and had a neutral guardian of property and litigation guardian appointed: 2022 ONSC 6259 (CanLII) | Gefen v. Gefen et al. | CanLII (decision upheld on appeal at 2023 ONCA 406 (CanLII) | Gefen v. Gefen | CanLII)
- Successfully obtained urgent summary judgment on behalf of a mortgagee against a mortgagor who ceased making payments, refused to vacate the property and was allowing the property to fall into disrepair: 2023, Almarjoy Managements Ltd. v Khursigara (unreported)
- Successfully struck a Family Law Act claim as derivative after the primary plaintiff's claim had been barred by the WSIAT: 2025, The Estate of the Late Tom Dedes et al v Toronto Transit Commission et al (unreported)
- Successfully secured summary judgment in respect of a readjustment clause in agreement of purchase and sale, defeating a limitations argument based on the Real Property Limitations Act: 2025, Rolling Meadows Land Development Corporation v Pine Glen Thorold Inc. (unreported)
