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.