SANCIA PINTO
Partner | 416.901.9984
spinto@pintoshekib.ca
Sancia Pinto is a Lawyer, Adjudicator, Mediator and Co-Founder of Pinto Shekib LLP. Recognized as a strong and strategic advocate, she maintains a broad civil litigation practice encompassing employment law; wills, estates and trusts disputes; real estate disputes; business disputes; insurance-related litigation; and commercial litigation.
Her litigation experience spans a wide spectrum of cases, from complex estates disputes, business disputes, wrongful dismissals to catastrophic injury and fatality claims, and she has secured millions of dollars in compensation for her clients.
Alongside her litigation practice, Sancia maintains an active mediation and arbitration practice. As a certified Mediator, she received her negotiation and mediation training at the Harvard Negotiation Institute at Harvard Law School, and as a certified Adjudicator, she completed the Advanced Certificate in Adjudication through the Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators (SOAR) and Osgoode Professional Development.
Sancia has served as a Mediator and Adjudicator with Tribunals Ontario, including at the Licence Appeal Tribunal, where she has conducted thousands of mediations and issued decisions in complex disputes between injured accident victims and insurers. She has also served as a Mediator and Adjudicator with the Condominium Authority Tribunal, an appointed Hearings Officer with York Region, and Chair of the City of Toronto’s Administrative Penalty Tribunal, where she adjudicated parking, red light camera and automated speed offences. In her role as a Hearings Officer with the Ministry of the Attorney General’s Court Services Division (Superior Court), she has conducted numerous mediations and quasi-judicial hearings involving solicitor-client assessments and party-and-party costs.
Beyond the courtroom, Sancia is committed to mentoring the next generation of legal professionals, serving as a mentor and subject matter assessor with Toronto Metropolitan University’s (formerly Ryerson University) Law Practice Program (LPP), where she provides practical legal training and guidance to aspiring lawyers.
She is an active member of the Ontario Bar Association, Canadian Bar Association, South Asian Bar Association, Ontario Trial Lawyers Association and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario.
Outside her professional roles, Sancia enjoys following real estate trends, traveling and spending quality time with her family.
EXPERTISE
- Employment Law
- Insurance Law
- Wills, Estates and Trusts Disputes
- Civil and Commercial Litigation
- Mediation
- Arbitration
REPRESENTATIVE CASES
- Patell v Patell – Counsel to the Applicant in a successful preservation motion before the Estates Court in Toronto, securing assets valued in excess of $1.7 million, pending trial.
- Lavides v Windsor Hill Non-Profit Housing Corp., 2024 HRTO 878 – Trial counsel to the Respondent, Windsor Hill, in a successful defence of a Contravention of Settlement Application. The Applicant’s claim was fully dismissed.
- Shankadev v Canada Employment Insurance Commission, GE-23-982 – Counsel to the Applicant in a successful appeal, restoring the Applicant’s entitlement to collect Employment Insurance benefits.
- L.M. v The Co-operators, 2020 CanLII 80288 (ON LAT) – Sancia Pinto as the Adjudicator.
- O.S. v Certas Home, 2020 CanLII 42665 (ON LAT) – Sancia Pinto as the Adjudicator.
- B.J. v Aviva Insurance, 2020 CanLII 144688 (ON LAT) – Sancia Pinto as the Adjudicator.
- Ontario (College of Pharmacists) v Member Z, 2020 ONCPDC 21 (CanLII) – Counsel to the Respondent in a successful defence of allegations of professional misconduct before the Discipline Committee of the Ontario College of Pharmacists.
- I.S. v Allstate Insurance Company of Canada, 2019 CanLII 101539 (ON LAT) – Sancia Pinto as the Adjudicator.
- E.T. v Certas Home, 2019 CanLII 40289 (ON LAT) – Sancia Pinto as the Adjudicator.
EDUCATION
- Certificate in Mediation – Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
- Advanced Certificate in Adjudication, Osgoode Professional Development & SOAR, Toronto, ON
- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours, B.A.) (Summa Cum Laude), Faculty of Political Science, York University, Toronto ON