Donald B. Bayne

First Year of Call

Areas of Practice
Criminal Law

Description
Don Bayne is a partner with Bayne Sellar Ertel Macrae. He received his LL.B. from Queen’s University, an L.L.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an M.B.A. and an LL.D (Hon.) from Queen’s University.

Mr. Bayne has practiced criminal law exclusively for more than 50 years. He has been designated a specialist in criminal litigation by the Law Society and has conducted trial and appellate advocacy at all levels of courts in Canada and at public inquiries (Somalia, Arar, Iacobucci). He has defended all manner of criminal charges including murder, complicated conspiracies, war crimes cases (in Canada, the Soviet Union, Ukraine) and charges against corporations.

Mr. Bayne was the 2006 recipient of the G. Arthur Martin award for the 2011 Ottawa Advocate Honoree awarded by the Advocates Society of Ontario, the 2016 Catzman Award for Professionalism and Civility and the 2016 William Carroll Award for Case of the Year. “an individual in Canada who has made a significant contribution to criminal justice.”