Joseph Markson

Specialties

Joseph Markson’s practice is directed to the defence of individual and corporate clients in criminal and regulatory litigation. His practice areas are criminal and regulatory litigation, tax evasion and white collar crime, and the law of policing and professional discipline. He has extensive experience successfully conducting criminal and quasi-​criminal trials, regulatory and professional discipline hearings, appeals, advisory work, and witness representation.

Joseph’s individual clients are generally professionals, first responders and other persons for whom a criminal or regulatory investigation, prosecution or conviction may jeopardize their employment, reputation, relationships, health, and ability to travel outside of Canada.

Joseph is counsel to police associations in the Greater Toronto Area and across Ontario. He is counsel to the Toronto Police Service Senior Officers’ Organization and has acted for the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police.

History

Established in 1992.

Joseph Markson obtained his LL.M. from Trinity Hall, Cambridge University in 1991, his LL.B. from Queen’s University in 1989, and his B.A. (Hons.) from the University of Toronto in 1985. He articled in Toronto at Davies Ward & Beck (Davies Ward Philips & Vineberg LLP) and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1992.

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Joseph brings to the practice his expertise as a federal prosecutor. Appointed in 1995, he is an Agent of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (formerly, the Department of Justice). He has extensive trial, jury trial, and search warrant and wiretap experience and has prosecuted numerous major complex cases involving organized crime, tax evasion, white collar crime, proceeds of crime, regulatory, cross-​border and Controlled Drugs and Substances Act offences.