Taryn Urquhart is a member of the Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations group. She maintains a regulatory litigation and administrative law practice with a focus 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 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 has been recognized by Legal 500 Canada as a Leading Associate for her work in DLA Piper’s Tier 1 ranked rail transportation practice.
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 various regulatory tribunals and decision-makers including the Canadian Transportation Agency, Canadian International Trade Tribunal, and the federal and provincial privacy commissioners.
