Paul M. Mann -
Paul M. Mann is a sole practitioner who operates his practice in the City of Cambridge, in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo and Province of Ontario. He also has an office in Kingston, Ontario. He has been litigating complex medical malpractice issues for approximately 30 years.
He is a member of the Ontario Bar and is also a member across the Dominion of all other law associations based on a multi-disciplinary approach for specialist of complex cases. He is a member of the Holland Group, which is a group of the top defence and plaintiff lawyers in Ontario, along with a former Court of Appeal Judge, whose mandate is to reform how medical malpractice cases are handled within the court. He has practiced from Newfoundland all the way to British Columbia, save Saskatchewan and Quebec.
Paul has gained a reputation as being a top-notch litigator. He has won the Bruce Hillyer Award for litigation and the advancement of justice on 2 separate occasions. As well, he has been designated as the number one medical malpractice layer by the Lawyers Weekly, as peer-reviewed by 5,000 other lawyers. He has been invited to give lectures to many organizations including but not limited to the Waterloo Law Association, the Carleton County Law Association, the Canadian Bar Association, the Advocates’ Society of Ontario, the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, Insight, and the Newfoundland Neurologic Society. Further, Paul has acted as a mentor for junior lawyers, in order to assist them on their way.
Paul was lead counsel on the battle for autistic children against the government of Ontario and was successful. Paul has also acted on over 100 inquests throughout his career, always with a victory from a jury with recommendations in favour of the injured or deceased plaintiff and his or her estate. These include the rather notorious cases of the triple suicides at a regional hospital, back-up counsel of the Walkerton water disaster for a single family and the tainted blood cases for a young lady. In terms of Paul’s other cases, Paul’s winning record in medical malpractice is exceptional.
Sandra Perron -
Sandra Perron has been a litigation consultant for 15 years. She works for several lawyers in Ontario and across Canada on complex medical malpractice cases from the commencement of the proceedings up to and including trial. Her work includes drafting pleadings, court documents, mediation material and memoranda; meeting with clients, lawyers, experts, treating physicians and nurses; trial preparation, scheduling and assistance to senior counsel at trial. She has assembled and maintains an extensive database of medical experts with whom she consults on a daily basis.
Sandra Perron is a secretary of the Holland Group, which is a group composed of members of the Plaintiff and Defence (both hospital and physician) Bars in Ontario and chaired by the Honourable Mr. Justice Coulter Osborne. The mandate of the Holland Group is to promote reforms in medical malpractice to serve the public interest by increasing access to justice to achieve equitable, affordable and timely resolutions of medical malpractice claims. She published an article entitled “Organizing Medical Malpractice Cases” in a medical malpractice issue of the The Litigator, Journal of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association. Her extensive trial experience also includes assisting counsel at an 18 month trial advocating of behalf of autistic children in Ontario and delivering a two hour closing argument to a jury at a highly publicized inquest.
Tanya Sarakinis BScN, RN -
Tanya Sarakinis has been a registered nurse since 1994. She graduated from Laurentian University with her BScN degree. Over the past 15 years Tanya has had the opportunity to work in many different clinical environments including; medical, surgical, telemetry, orthopaedic, thoracic surgery, and emergency medicine. Her nursing experience has also taken her south of the border to include Naples Florida, Miami Florida and New Haven Connecticut, as well as Northern and Southern Ontario. Tanya has also worked as an associate professor at Miami Dade Community College in the Nursing department.
For the past 7 1/2 years Tanya has been the owner and operator of Emerg-Plus Healthcare. Emerg-Plus is a staffing agency for healthcare providers in Southern Ontario. Tanya is also an authorized provider of the Canadian Red Cross and a certified instructor for CPR and First Aid, as well as a TNCC instructor.
Tanya holds memberships with the College of Nurses of Ontario, Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, Emergency Nurses Association, National Emergency Nurses Association, and the Hamilton Medical Legal Society.
The past 2 ½ years Tanya has actively been involved with many malpractice and class action cases. Her experience has included receiving and organizing of medical records, providing a synopsis of care, chronology of events, assistance in examinations for discoveries and providing an expert opinion in cases.
