Toby Rauch-Davis
Toby joined Mandell Pinder’s litigation team in 2026 following 10 years of practice at a boutique litigation firm in Vancouver. Before joining Mandell Pinder, Toby developed a broad civil and criminal litigation practice, appearing before all levels of court in British Columbia, the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal, and serving as co-counsel on a successful intervention before the Supreme Court of Canada.
Toby takes a special interest in using litigation and strategic resolution as tools to ensure Crown accountability and adherence to legal obligations, particularly through the recognition and advancement of Constitutional and Indigenous rights on behalf of his clients. Toby has experience prosecuting and defending legal claims in an array of contexts, including: Constitutional claims, Charter breaches, commercial disputes, regulatory actions, defamation claims and historical abuse claims. Toby has acted for Indigenous clients seeking redress for systemic discrimination, historical wrongs and unlawful Crown conduct in both Provincial and Federal regulatory contexts. Toby is committed to helping clients achieve the recognition of their rights and advance meaningful reconciliation.
Profile
Toby joined Mandell Pinder LLP in 2026. He was called to the bar in British Columbia in 2017.
J.D., Thompson Rivers University (2016)
B.A., History, University of Victoria (2012)
Acted as co-counsel on behalf of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users in their successful intervention at the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Zora, 2020 SCC 14.
Acted for a class of over 100 predominantly Indigenous former foster children who were awarded damages for loss of cultural identity as well as other injuries arising from their time in foster care and mistreatment by a fraudulent social worker.
Acted as co-counsel for a class of Indigenous women offenders serving sentences in Federal prisons whose Indigeneity was used by the Correctional Service of Canada as a reason to increase their security classification and resulting liberty deprivations.
Acted as co-counsel for UBCIC and an individual claimant in a novel Human Rights Tribunal challenge to the provincial health services authority’s use of a discriminatory abstinence policy in relation to liver transplant priority in British Columbia.
Acted as co-counsel for the estate of Norval Morrisseau in criminal proceedings brought against convicted fraudsters who had created and distributed fraudulent works purporting to be authentic Norval Morrisseau art.
Represented Indigenous accused persons in criminal proceedings, including making Gladue submissions and representing clients in the First Nations Court of British Columbia.
Acted for Indigenous Nations on breach of Treaty and Indigenous rights, failure to consult, as well as complex contract and commercial disputes.
Member, Law Society of BC
Member, Canadian Bar Association