Taryn Urquhart is a member of the Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations group. She maintains a regulatory and administrative law practice with a focus on transportation and privacy matters.
Taryn’s transportation practice principally focuses on providing complex regulatory advice to private and public sector clients on the provincial and federal regulatory requirements applicable to railways and adjacent industries. This includes advising on the construction, development and operation of railways, and in the areas of railway safety, security, level of services and related regulatory matters. She also provides strategic advice to shippers, ports, terminals and shortline railways in their interface with the Class I railways including with respect to confidential contracts, railway access issues, the development of crossings, sidings, spurs and other infrastructure, and discontinuance. Taryn regularly acts for shippers and public sector clients in pursuing statutory remedies under the Canada Transportation Act, the Canada Marine Act and other federal legislation including final offer arbitration, level of service arbitration, net salvage value determinations, judicial review and related commercial litigation.
Taryn’s privacy practice focuses on access to information and data protection matters. She regularly represents public and private sector clients in inquiries, complaints and other matters before the federal and provincial privacy commissioners, and on judicial review at various levels of court. She advises and assists clients with responding to access to information requests while managing litigation risks, and in developing privacy policies and programs to comply with regulatory requirements.
Taryn also works collaboratively with clients in their response to data breaches, including advising on statutory breach notification compliance, incident response, and related litigation risks.
Taryn regularly appears before the Federal Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the British Columbia Supreme Court, and the British Columbia Court of Appeal. She also frequently appears before regulatory tribunals, arbitrators, and decision-makers including the Canadian Transportation Agency, Canadian International Trade Tribunal, and the federal and provincial privacy commissioners.
