Marcus is comitted to fairness and justice
Marcus practices at the boutique law firm Millard & Company in the areas of employment, human rights and administrative law. He has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario, as well as Federal Court and the Supreme Court of Canada, and represented clients before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and at other administrative hearings. He regularly represents clients in negotiations and mediations, inside and out of formal court proceedings.
Marcus represented a coalition of rape crisis centres in its arguments about the unconstitutionality of Canada’s sex work laws. He won a 4-year legal battle to force the Ministry of the Attorney General to disclose secret guidelines about criminal prosecutions of HIV-positive people. With Mika Imai, he challenged the repeal of Ontario’s inclusive sexual health education curriculum on behalf of an 11-year-old trans girl. In 2016, he organized a group of lawyers to provide defences to those who had been caught in an undercover police sting at Marie Curtis Park. He was a longtime volunteer on the Board of Directors of the HIV/AIDS Legal Clinic of Ontario, retiring from the board in 2020.
Marcus has spoken at numerous events, including the Law Union of Ontario annual conference, Freedom to Read Week, and the Canadian Labour Congress’s Rise Up! Conference. He was a volunteer judge of the Wilson Moot in 2017.
He is a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
REcent cases
Representing a coalition of rape crisis centres in sex work challenge
CASWLR v Canada
Defending defamation claims against Twitter user
Mondal et al v Evans-Bitten et al
Challenging the repeal of Ontario’s sex ed curriculum
AB v Ontario (Minister of Education)
Fighting for diverse law school applicants
Trinity Western University v Law Society of Upper Canada
Fighting for HIV+ people in criminal justice
Ontario v Ontario (Information & Privacy Commissioner)
Challenging police raids of men cruising Marie Curtis Park
Leading to the withdrawal of charges
Advocating for a broader expungement of unjust criminal convictions
Senate on amending Bill C-66 on behalf of civil society groups