Ioana BALA

Admitted to Bar, 2007, Ontario

Ioana has been an associate at BJCTB since 2007. She has a varied litigation practice, with particular experience in the aviation, defamation/media industries and mental health law. She has been involved in claims work, regulatory and commercial disputes, administrative law, libel/slander, employment law and constitutional law. She has participated in cases before administrative tribunals and various courts, including a number of appellate cases before the Federal Court of Appeal, Ontario Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada.

In law school, Ioana was a student legal advisor in a specialized legal clinic, acted as editor-in-chief of an academic journal and acted as a student advisor in the mooting program. Ioana also received several scholarships and legal writing prizes and was an Honours student.

For her articles, Ioana was a judicial clerk at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, where she assisted judges of that Court in a variety of cases.

Ioana is also fluent in French and Romanian.

EDUCATION

Trinity College, University of Toronto (Hons. B.A., High Distinction, 2003)
University of Toronto (J.D., 2006; M.A. International Relations, 2006)

SELECTED EXPERIENCE

- involved in hearings before the Canadian Transportation Agency and Federal Court of Appeal on issues of passenger rights and carrier regulation
- involved in cases involving passenger claims
- represented clients in numerous defamation cases and has experience advising insurers on the merits of defamation claims
- involved in a number of successful challenges to publication bans
- involved in several notable cases on the rights of journalists and the media
- involved in a number of commercial disputes
- provided advice on employment law matters
- involved in cases on professional indemnity
- involved in a number of Supreme Court applications and appeals
- involved in cases involving the Charter of Rights and constitutional law

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

- Contributor to the firm’s publications Transportation Notes and Litigation Notes.

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

- Member of the Advocates’ Society and Canadian Bar Association
- Participant in the Advocates’ Society Young Advocates Committee and Education Committee
- Co-founder of Young Women in Law

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