Logan Crowell
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Education/Certifications
2012 – Juris Doctor, Queen’s University
2008 – Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), York University
Work Experience
2026-Present – Counsel, McIntyre Szabo PC
2011-2026 – Counsel, Associate Lawyer & Student, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Recognitions
2024 & 2025 – Best Lawyers in Canada: Health Law & Medical Negligence
2023 – Best Lawyers in Canada Ones to Watch: Health Law
Experience
Legal Roles
Logan has spent his entire career representing clients in the Canadian health sector. Prior to joining the team at McIntyre Szabo, he spent 12 years as a lawyer in the health law group at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, one of the largest health practices in Canada. While there he worked with clients of all sizes within the sector: individual practitioners through to the largest hospitals and government agencies in Canada.
Practice Areas
Logan advises clients including hospitals, regulatory colleges, community care organizations, clinics, private sector health providers, insurers and individual practitioners based on their needs. He specializes in health privacy including policy improvement, quality assurance and privacy breach prevention and response. His representation includes risk management, policy and practice review, acting for clients before professional and mental health tribunals (college Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee, Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, Health Services Appeal and Review Board, Consent and Capacity Board, Ontario Review Board) as well as medical negligence actions and class proceedings of all sizes.
Courts & Tribunals
Logan has appeared before all level of Courts in Ontario and in writing before the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also appeared before health sector tribunals including the Ontario Review Board, Consent and Capacity Board, Health Professions Appeal and Review Board and Health Services Appeal and Review Board. Logan was counsel on behalf of a large hospital in the first civil jury trial post-COVID-19.
External Activities
Logan has taught Health Law at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law and guest lectured at the University of Toronto. He regularly teaches as part of Osgoode Professional Development’s programs in Health Law and Privacy Law and Information Management in Health Care. Logan has provided privacy training to hospitals and health entities across Ontario and Canada.
Outside the Law
Logan is an avid follower of (most of) the arts, curling & baseball and (most) food.
Representative Cases
Grand River Hospital (Re) (2025, IPC) – successfully represented the hospital in a sensitive matter interpreting the definition of personal health information in the context of bodily specimens.
D.N. v. Ontario (Health)(2025 HRTO) – defeated an attempt to bring a human rights application against a hospital.
Selkirk v. Trillium Gift of Life Network(2022, ONCA) – successfully defended the fairness and reasonableness of Ontario’s liver transplant guidelines in an application challenging their compliance with the Charter in the context of patients addicted to alcoholism.
Trillium Health Partners (Re) (2020, IPC) – successfully advocated on behalf of the hospital in a complex privacy dispute involve novel interpretation of the interplay between hospital and private practice medical records; this decision fairly interprets the respective responsibilities of each entity and concludes hospitals alone are not responsible for health privacy when private practices are granted access.
Fan v. Scarborough Rouge Hospital(2020, HRTO) – summarily defeated a frivolous human rights application brought against the hospital on the basis of no jurisdiction.
AA (Re)(2019, CCB) – successfully represented a finding of incapacity on behalf of an assessing forensic psychiatrist.
Walker (Re) (2018, ONCA) – successfully represented a mental health hospital in an appeal from an ORB decision on both procedural and substantive grounds.
R.G. v. The Hospital for Sick Children (2017-2018, ONSC & ONCA) – acting on behalf of SickKids, defeated attempts to certify a class proceeding arising from the Motherisk Drug Testing Laboratory.
Hirchberg v. Branson Drug Store(2017, ONCA) – successfully brough summary judgment on behalf of the defendant hospital in an action where expert evidence fully supported the medical care provided.
Benson v. Vandersluis (2015 ONSC) – successfully defended the decision of an Ontario base hospital medical director to decertify a paramedic on the basis of misconduct; this leading decision is the foundational case on the decertification of paramedics in Ontario.
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