Kristopher Kinsinger

Kristopher Kinsinger is a lawyer with SV Law’s Civil Litigation and Municipal Law practice groups. His areas of practice include:

• Civil and commercial litigation
• Defamation law
• Constitutional and Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom advocacy
• Applications for judicial review
• Regulatory and disciplinary proceedings
• Provincial Offences Act defences and prosecutions
• Heritage Act designations and appeals
• Conservation Authorities Act permits and appeals

Kristopher received his Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2019, where he was the recipient of several scholarships and prizes, before completing his articles of clerkship with a national law firm in Waterloo. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 2020, and received his Master of Laws from McGill University in 2021 on a SSHRC scholarship and with the Pilarczyk Graduate Award in Law.

Between 2021 and 2024, Kristopher served full-time as the national director of the Runnymede Society, a major Canadian association of lawyers and law students. During this same period, he was counsel with a boutique litigation firm in Toronto. His writing on legal issues regularly appears in The Supreme Court Law Review, the National Post, and The Hub.

In 2021, Kristopher was selected to join the inaugural cohort of the prestigious NextGen Fellowship with the Cardus think tank, and served two terms between 2017 and 2023 on the board of directors of Christian Legal Fellowship, Canada’s national association of Christian lawyers and law students. He currently serves as the chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s Constitutional and Human Rights Section and as an adjunct lecturer with Redeemer University in Hamilton.

In his free time, Kristopher can be found reading, writing, drinking coffee, listening to vinyl, or mapping out his next backcountry camping trip.