Mick Hassell
Trial Counsel
Toronto: (416) 944-2274
Collingwood: (705) 464-2274
mhassell@trialcounsel.ca
Mick is a trial lawyer in service to the cause of justice.
The cause of justice is an ideal that transcends any individual case. If your claim aligns with that cause, Mick may be the right lawyer for you. If it does not, he will tell you so.
Trial Experience
Mick helps law firms, businesses, organisations and individuals advance civil claims to trial. Having served as lead trial counsel on a wide range of trials, arbitrations and hearings on the merits, he offers his Courtroom experience — as trial counsel, co-counsel or trial consultant — to referring lawyers and their clients.
While knowledgeable across a broad spectrum of civil and commercial matters, Mick is typically retained specifically for his trial advocacy experience, which shapes how claims are properly assessed and readied for trial.
Civil Claims
Mick has worked on the following types of cases:
- Contract claims, real estate, construction, business, shareholder, employment;
- Negligence claims, personal injury, motor vehicle (especially Jury trials), professional malpractice;
- Tort claims, fraud, defamation, intentional torts;
- Wills and estates claims, trusts;
- General civil and commercial matters.
Publications & Teaching
Mick is the author of the Ontario Civil Trial Handbook, the Ontario Civil Trial Manual, Civil Litigation D.I.Y. and the Ontario Civil Trial Checklist, among other publications.
Mick has been involved in teaching and mentoring trial advocacy for lawyers, articling students and law students at Law Society of Ontario continuing professional development, private trial advocacy seminars hosted by Hassell Trial Counsel and advocacy-based organizations, Osgoode Hall Law School’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop and Toronto Metropolitan University’s Law Practice Program Trial Advocacy.
Education & Credentials
- Canadian Securities Institute – CIM
- McGill University – B.Com.
- University of Glasgow – M.Phil.
- Western Law – LL.B.
- Law Society of Ontario – Barrister-at-Law