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Thomas McCann.

Criminal trial and appeal lawyer. Former Assistant Crown Attorney, now defending clients across Ontario’s trial courts.

Thomas McCann is a criminal trial and appeal lawyer at Daniel Brown Law. He is sensitive to the harm that accompanies being charged and thrust into the criminal justice system, and he is tenacious in advancing his clients’ best interests in a timely and strategic manner. Thomas makes sure his clients are thoroughly informed and guided through a process that can be highly stressful and overwhelming, particularly for those with no prior involvement in the criminal justice system.

Courtroom experience

Thomas brings a perspective few defence lawyers have: he served as an Assistant Crown Attorney, prosecuting serious drug and organized crime cases, and also has a background in civil law. His litigation experience is extensive in both the Ontario Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Justice, including jury trials, preliminary inquiries, constitutional challenges, and bail hearings. He also acts as appeal counsel.

From Thomas’s bio

Trial experience on both sides of the courtroom.

Background

A graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School, Thomas was a criminal law division leader at the law school’s legal clinic. In that role he represented economically disadvantaged and vulnerable members of the community, and routinely obtained favourable outcomes for his clients, including the outright withdrawal of charges. Thomas was also selected for the law school’s Criminal Intensive Program, an immersive placement shadowing criminal lawyers at a Toronto criminal defence firm.

At the firm

At Daniel Brown Law, Thomas draws on his trial experience — on both sides of the courtroom — to deliver the representation clients need during their most difficult times.

Thomas is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and the Criminal Lawyers’ Association.

Credentials

Courts: Ontario Court of Justice; Superior Court of Justice
Prior role: Assistant Crown Attorney
Education: Osgoode Hall Law School; Criminal Intensive Program
Memberships: Law Society of Ontario; Criminal Lawyers’ Association

Thomas defends every kind of criminal charge

Here are some of the charges we defend most often. We also defend charges not listed here.

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The strength of the whole firm, on every case

Thomas is one of 16 criminal defence lawyers at Daniel Brown Law. Every client has the firm’s collective trial and appeal experience behind them, in courthouses across Ontario.