Kate Robertson

Kate Robertson acts as special counsel to the firm, advising on criminal matters, risk and crisis management, governance matters, enforcement actions, and internal or regulatory investigations under a range of frameworks including financial regulation, and PIPEDA and other similar privacy legislation. She has conducted numerous criminal trials, including jury and judge-alone trials, and has advocated at all levels of court in Canada.

Prior to joining Markson Law, Kate served as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, and was a provincial and federal prosecutor in Canada. She is currently a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.

Education and Awards

Kate obtained her law degree from the University of Toronto. She graduated from the Faculty of Law with Honours and received numerous awards for academic achievement and professionalism, including prizes in business law and jurisprudence. During law school, Kate worked for a prominent international human rights organization in New York, and within the litigation and tax departments of one of Canada’s top business law firms. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the University of Toronto’s Journal of International Law and International Relations.

Related Experience

Kate is active in the legal community and has provided pro bono services to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Criminal Lawyers’ Association, and the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. She served a past director of Human Rights Watch Canada. She is the past Chair of The Advocates’ Society’s Criminal Law Practice Group. She also serves on the Criminal Lawyers’ Association’s Litigation Committee, and its Law and Technology Committee.

Prior to beginning her law degree, Kate worked with the United Nations in Cambodia at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, where she worked on the investigation of the former Khmer Rouge regime's surviving senior leaders.