Taryn Urquhart is a member of the Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations group. She maintains a commercial litigation and regulatory practice focusing on transportation and privacy matters.
Taryn’s transportation practice focuses on advising private and public sector clients on the regulatory requirements applicable to railways and railway serviced industries such as ports, terminals and shippers. She also provides strategic advice to shippers in the negotiation of confidential contracts with the railways and regularly acts for shippers and public sector clients in pursuing statutory remedies under the Canada Transportation Act including final offer arbitration, level of service arbitration, net salvage value determinations and related commercial litigation.
Taryn was recently recognized in The Legal 500 Canada for her practice in DLA Piper’s rail transportation group.
Taryn also represents public and private sector clients and assists senior counsel in all areas of privacy and data protection. She assists clients with compliance in access to information obligations and data breach reporting requirements. Taryn also represents clients in inquiries and other matters before the federal and provincial privacy commissioners, and in judicial review at various levels of court.
Taryn regularly appears before the Federal Court of Canada and all levels of court in British Columbia, and before various regulatory tribunals and decision-makers including the Canadian Transportation Agency, Canadian International Trade Tribunal, British Columbia Utilities Commission, and the federal and provincial privacy commissioners.
