About
In addition to his legal work with Christian Brothers of Ireland sexual abuse survivors, Bob Buckingham represents individuals with claims against the United Church of Canada and Dr. Stephen John Collins, a minister and doctor who worked for the United Church of Canada and the Canadian Bible Society as a missionary throughout Canada and overseas in the ’60s and ’70s, and welcomes inquiries from survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of Collins, the United Church of Canada or other organizations. Stephen has a busy civil litigation practice, with a focus on representing survivors of sexual abuse as well as general personal injury. He has represented well over one hundred survivors of abuse and helped them obtain financial compensation for the harms perpetrated against them. He has represented clients in actions against the Province, school boards, and several religious denominations, including the Roman Catholic Church, the United Church, and the Pentecostal Assemblies. Stephen has also helped expand the firm’s class action practice, and is co-counsel in several ongoing class actions for breach of privacy in the health care sector. Additionally, he has commenced class actions relating to a 2020 egg-related salmonella outbreak, and an action against the Provincial Health Authority in 2023 connected to the Authority’s use of inadequate screening machines for mammograms.