Taryn Urquhart

Practice Areas

Taryn Urquhart maintains a ‎regulatory litigation and administrative law practice with a focus on transportation matters.‎

Taryn’s transportation practice principally focuses on providing complex ‎regulatory advice to private and public sector clients on the provincial and federal ‎regulatory ‎requirements applicable to railways and adjacent industries. This includes advising on the construction, ‎development and operation of railways, and in the areas of railway safety, security, level of services and related ‎‎regulatory matters.‎ She also provides strategic advice to shippers, ports, terminals and shortline railways in their interface with the Class I railways including with respect to confidential contracts, railway access issues, the development of crossings, sidings, spurs and other infrastructure, and discontinuance. Taryn regularly acts for shippers and public sector clients in pursuing statutory remedies under the Canada ‎Transportation Act, the Canada Marine Act and other federal legislation including final offer arbitration, level of service arbitration, net salvage value ‎determinations, judicial review and related commercial litigation. ‎

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 regulatory tribunals, arbitrators, and decision-makers including the Canadian Transportation Agency, ‎Canadian International Trade Tribunal, and the federal and provincial ‎privacy commissioners.