Date: May 25, 2016
Raivo Uukkivi
ruukkivi@casselsbrock.com
t: 416 860 6613
f: 416 640 3110
Toronto
Suite 2100, Scotia Plaza
40 King Street West
Toronto, ON
Canada
M5H 3C2
Raivo Uukkivi's practice is focused on advocacy. He acts for a broad range of private and public sector clients.
His emphasis is on developing and implementing practical, time-saving resolutions to conflict, particularly in
complex disputes.
Raivo advises on decisions or actions that are impacted by municipal law or otherwise arise from the
development, use and ownership of land. This includes land use planning and development, property and title
disputes, environmental disputes, green energy projects, municipal by-law challenges, municipal conflicts of
interest, elections disputes, municipal taxation, archaeological matters and freedom of information requests.
He is regularly engaged in construction- and infrastructure-related litigation, specializing in matters involving
municipalities.
He was counsel in the following reported cases:
Tiny (Township) v Battaglia, 2013 ONCA 274, 31 RPR (5th) 1, 228 ACWS (3d) 269.
Meaford (Municipality) v Grist, 2013 ONCA 124, 304 OAC 371, 7 MPLR (5th) 177, 223 ACWS (3d) 1044,
2013 CarswellOnt 2026
Cusimano v Toronto (City) (2011), 82 MPLR (4th) 263 (ONSC)
Holyday v Toronto (City) (2010), 265 OAC 109 (Div Ct), 74 MPLR (4th) 194
Jackson v Vaughan (City) (2010), 68 MPLR (4th) 161 (Ont CA)
Some of Raivo’s other experience includes:
S.A. Armstrong Limited v Toronto (Committee of Adjustment), PL130706, September 30, 2013 (OMB)
2319839 Ontario Inc v Municipal Property Assessment Corp, Region No. 31, [2013] OARBD No 175
Gunn v Halton District School Board, [2012] OJ No 2972
Mullen v. Wasaga Beach (Town), [2012] OMBD No 191
Chambers v Prince (Township), [2011] OJ No 6376
Chambers v Prince (Township), [2011] OJ No 6376
Brampton (City) v Brar, [2011] OJ No 5518, 2011 ONSC 7156
Aubrey et al v Prince (Township), 2011 ONSC 5944
The Corporation of the Municipality of Meaford v Grist et al, 2011 ONSC 5195
Stephen Kotyck & Partap Duo v Returning Officer for Town of Markham, 2010 ONSC 7221 (SCJ)
Ontario Pork Producers' Marketing Board v Hunter, 2010 ONSC 2622, supplementary reasons at 2010
ONSC 6841 and 2011 ONSC 841 (SCJ)
Zver v Aurora (Town), [2010] OMBD No 695
Hancock v Wasaga Beach (Town), [2010] OMBD No 587
Hancock v Wasaga Beach (Town), [2010] OMBD No 271
Brown v Bracebridge (Town), [2010] OMBD No 119
Raivo appears before all levels of court in Ontario, including the Court of Appeal. He acts as lead trial counsel
before the Superior Court of Justice and appears before tribunals in Ontario, with emphasis on advocacy
before the Ontario Municipal Board.
Raivo also prosecutes and defends charges under statutes that govern municipal and land use planning law.
This includes prosecutions under the Planning Act, Environmental Protection Act, Green Energy Act, Niagara
Escarpment Planning and Development Act, Building Code Act and the Fire Protection and Prevention Act.
During one of his mandates, Raivo acted as the prosecutor for a major municipality in Ontario.
Raivo speaks regularly to various councils, staff, associations and groups on topical issues concerning
municipal, development and construction law. He is a regular contributor to Carswell's Legal Alert for their
municipal law and land use planning section. He is an instructor for sections of the Construction Law course at
George Brown College, and for several years has acted as a judge in the Lerners Cup advocacy competition
at the University of Western Ontario. Raivo also acts as an advisor to the Healthy Food Bank, an organization
whose mandate is to deliver healthy, perishable foods to people in need throughout North America.
Raivo also speaks Estonian.
Achievements
Best oral argument and second place overall in the Niagara Moot Competition (an oral advocacy
competition involving competitors from Canada and the US)
Call to the bar
Ontario, 2004
Associations
Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD)
Urban Land Institute (ULI)
The Advocates' Society
Toronto Lawyers Association
Ontario Bar Association, Aboriginal Law Section Executive
Expertise
Aboriginal
Construction
Education
Land Development
Municipal, Planning & Environmental
Real Estate & Development