Padraigin Murphy
Associate
Practice Area
Expertise
Taxation of Pensions and Benefits, Public Sector Pension and Benefit Plans, Multi-Employer Pension and Benefit Plans, Workers’ Compensation, Employee Life and Health Trusts
Called to the Bar
Ontario, 2018
Padraigin is an associate lawyer in Koskie Minsky’s Pension and Employee Benefits Department and a member of the Tax Group. She has experience advising employees, unions, plan administrators, trustees and their advisors and consultants regarding a range of pension and benefit issues, including regulatory compliance and income tax issues in the context of pension and benefit fund investments.
Padraigin also represents injured workers before the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Tribunal.
Padraigin has contributed to the IAVGO (Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ontario) Reporting Service and has authored numerous articles for the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans’ Legal and Legislative Reporter.
She is a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. During her studies she worked at the Advocates for Injured Workers legal aid clinic and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law and Equality. She was also active in student government.
Padraigin sits on the Board of Directors of the Industrial Accident Victims’ Group of Ontario.
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Education
JD, 2017
University of TorontoMA, 2010
University of Western OntarioHBA, 2009
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Memberships / Affiliations
Member, Canadian Bar Association
Member, Ontario Bar Association
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Latest News & Events
Budget 2024 – Pension and Employee Benefit Plan Roundup
April 17, 2024
The Federal Government issued Budget 2024 yesterday. In this post, we discuss announcements relating to pension funds, employee ownership trusts, and worker cooperatives. Budget 2024 did not introduce any significant substantive measures relating to pension plans or employee life and health trusts. Moreover, Budget 2024 did not address the application of the new trust reporting
2023 Fall Economic Statement – Pension Fund Investment Announcements
December 5, 2023
The Federal Government’s 2023 Fall Economic Statement included three significant announcements regarding pension fund investments, which we unpack in this post: That the Government will “work collaboratively” with Canadian pension funds to “create an environment that encourages and identifies more opportunities for investments in Canada”. That the Government will “explore” removing the “30 per cent