Ranjan Agarwal

Background

About Ranjan Agarwal

Justice Ranjan K. Agarwal was born in Nelson B.C. and raised in Edmonton Alberta. He has lived in Toronto since graduating from the Joint LL.B./M.A. (International Affairs) program at the University of Ottawa and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in 2003. He also has a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Alberta and an LL.M. (Constitutional Law) from Osgoode Hall Law School. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2004 and the Bar of Saskatchewan in 2019. Justice Agarwal was a partner at Bennett Jones LLP. His practice focused on class actions commercial litigation employment and human rights disputes and public and constitutional law. He has appeared before courts and tribunals across Canada including 19 appeals at the Supreme Court of Canada. He began his career as an articling student and associate at Hicks Morley LLP. Justice Agarwal is a past president of the South Asian Bar Association of Toronto one of the largest and most diverse bar associations in North America. He was elected to the executive of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) in 2017 and recently served as First Vice President. He was the first South Asian to serve as an OBA officer. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto and is a co-author of Class Actions Law and Practice. In 2020 The Advocates’ Society awarded him the Eric Hoaken Excellence in Mentoring Award for his commitment to training a new generation of barristers. He was also a recipient of the CBA’s Young Lawyers Forum Pro Bono Award for his dedication to pro bono service.