Steven Skurka is a leading criminal defence lawyer who has spent decades defending accused persons charged with a range of offences, including very serious violent offences, such as murder, as well as major fraud and white collar offences. Steve has fearlessly advanced novel and creative defences and has been involved in several precedent-setting cases. Steve defended the case of R v. Brown, involving a former player on the Toronto Raptors, and advanced the Charter defence that the police stop had been tainted by racial profiling, a case which became a landmark case in this area of the law in Canada. Steve also advanced a successful argument that relied on evidence of marijuana-induced psychosis as well as a successful defence that relied on battered child syndrome in a homicide case. Steve is a sought-after speaker and has given many presentations to the criminal defence bar, judges and law students and teaches regularly at the Ontario College of Advocacy Training.

Steve taught criminal procedure at Osgoode Hall Law School for over a decade and acted as the legal analyst for CTV and its morning program, Canada AM. Steve is also a published author having written Tilted: the Trials of Conrad Black, a book about Conrad Black’s criminal case in Chicago and a fictional book, Pharo and the Clever Assassin.

Steve is a member of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association and a life member of the National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers in the United States.

Trevor obtained his law degree from the University of Oxford in England and his LL.M. from Osgoode Hall Law School. Trevor went on to article at a prominent criminal law firm in Brampton, where he developed a strong foundation in Charter-based defences.

As an associate at RH Criminal Defence, Trevor prides himself on his detail-oriented and creative approach to criminal defence: he is adept at pinpointing legal issues and crafting novel solutions that are tailored to each client’s specific needs. Trevor has assisted on a jury trial involving a murder client charged with first-degree murder, which resulted in an acquittal, a challenge to a mandatory minimum sentence in the Criminal Code for the offence of manslaughter with a firearm and a challenge in a case involving the seizure of drugs and firearms due to a no-knock raid. Trevor believes that every accused person has the right to a thorough defence and that the system can only be changed through the determined advocacy of the defence.

Trevor is a member of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association and is part of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association’s Recent Call Committee.

Lauren is a returning Summer Law Student at RH Criminal Defence. Lauren is a law student at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she is an executive on the Criminal Law Students’ Association and a Senior Editor on the University of Toronto Law Review. Lauren has always had a passion for criminal law. Prior to law school, Lauren graduated from the University of Guelph with an Honours Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice and Public Policy. In her spare time, Lauren enjoys reading, cooking and spending time outdoors.