John D. Gregory

B.A., LL.B. (Toronto), M.Sc. (Econ.) (London), LL.M. (Osgoode Hall Law School)

John D. Gregory is General Counsel in the Policy Division, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario). After clerking for the Chief Justice of  Canada, he was called to the Ontario Bar in 1977. He practised commercial law in Toronto with Wright & McTaggart until 1985, when he joined the provincial government. He has developed policies on alternative dispute resolution, private international law, trade law and provincial offences, including the electronic filing rules for photoradar speeding tickets. He has been president of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada .

He chaired the working group that produced the Uniform Electronic Evidence Act and another that created the Uniform Electronic Commerce Act . From 1997 through 2005  he was a member of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law's working group on electronic commerce . He has been a director of the Information Technology Lawyers Association of Canada and is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Internet and E-Commerce Law in Canada and the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology .   He is also co-chair of the Working Group on International Issues of the Cyberspace Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association.

He is a frequent speaker on electronic commerce and the law of the paperless office, a subject on which his knowledge is more theoretical than real.

He is also on the Editorial Board and management committee of The Philanthropist, a soon-to-be-online journal about legal, accounting and management issues affecting Canadian charities.

Selected Publications

[see also  http://www.euclid.ca/ for publications available online]

"Telephone Regulation in Quebec: A Study of the Régie des services publics" (1974), 1 Can Communications L J 1.

"Article 14: Error in Electronic Communication" (with Joan Remsu), in Amelia H. Boss and Wolfgang Kilian, eds., The United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts: an In-Depth Guide and Sourcebook, Kluwer Law International, 2008, p.198.

"Article 18: Effect in Domestic Territorial Units" (with Joan Remsu), in Amelia H. Boss and Wolfgang Kilian, eds., The United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts: an In-Depth Guide and Sourcebook, Kluwer Law International, 2008, p.225.

"Les défis juridiques d'un gouvernement virtuel", in K. Benyekhlef and P. Trudel, ed., L'État de droit et virtualité, Éditions Thémis, Montréal, 2009, p. 321.

“The Law Goes Electronic”, in [2009] Annual Review of Civil Litigation, Thomson Carswell, Toronto, 2009.