Sarah Hahn’s practice is focused on municipal litigation, including municipal law, land-use planning, development, administrative and expropriation law.
She regularly appears before the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) and all levels of court in Ontario, acting for municipalities, private landowners and developers.
Some of the specific issues that Sarah deals with include: appeals and motions at the OLT; expropriation matters; official plan and zoning by-law amendments; minor variance and consent applications; site plan approvals and agreements; expropriation representation; development charge disputes; conflict of interest and municipal election matters; drafting municipal bylaws and resolutions; freedom of information and privacy matters; court applications for property matters such as title rectification, vesting orders, prescriptive easements and rights of way.
Sarah earned her law degree at the University of Ottawa and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2013. She sat on the Municipal Section Executive of the Ontario Bar Association for a number of years and was its Chair for the 2023 – 2024 term. She regularly presents at continuing professional development programs for lawyers and previously taught the LAWS2000 course at Georgian College. Before attending law school, Sarah worked at a Community Legal Clinic where she represented individuals at appeals before the Social Benefits Tribunal.
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NOTABLE DECISIONS:
- Township of Clearview et al. v. Wargon et al., 2026 ONSC 2252
- Tiny Township Association v Township of Tiny, 2025 ONSC 1578
- The Corporation of the Town of Wasaga Beach v. Persons Unknown, 2023 ONSC 4929
- Mellor v Wasaga Beach (Town), 2022 CanLII 30147 (ON LT)
- Prophet v. Tay (Township), 2022 ONSC 4490
- FoTTSA v Ontario (Environment, Conservation and Parks), 2021 CanLII 34308 (ON ERT)
- Perkins v The Blue Mountains (Town), 2021 CanLII 44069 (ON LPAT)
- Biffis v. Sainsbury, 2018 ONSC 3531, 79 M.P.L.R. (5th) 49
- Tay (Township) v. Fan, 2018 ONSC 6375
- Hoggarth v Mgm Farms and Fingers Limited, 2015 ONSC 2494