GUELPH — The family of Isabel Warren has retained a lawyer to investigate the circumstances surrounding her death.

Warren, 14, died after sustaining massive head and chest injuries last June 16 when a cinder-block wall suddenly collapsed onto her while she was waiting for a friend in a city-owned washroom at the Southend Community Park.

The incident occurred during a Bishop Macdonell outdoor physical education class. Warren was a Grade 9 student at the school and a participant in that class.

Jonathan Robart, a student-at-law at Adair Morse, a Toronto law firm, said in an email, the firm has been retained by the Warren family and is probing her death. In connection with that effort, he said, the firm has asked the city for all civic records relating to the washroom in question but said attempts to obtain the documents “have been met with some resistance.”

Bill Stewart, the city’s manager of procurement and risk management, said the municipality was approached by a representative of a law firm who showed up unannounced and “demanded records” related to this subject.

“We said they would have to fill out the proper paperwork for a Freedom of Information request.”

Robart said Adair Morse is seeking site and building plans, building permits, building inspections and maintenance records relating to the washroom in which Warren was fatally injured.

A day after Warren was killed, city chief administrative officer Hans Loewig promised all building inspection documentation, floor plans and work orders would be made public.

Loewig is out of town this week and could not be reached for comment.

Stewart said a claim against the city has not been filed arising from the wall collapse. And city solicitor Lois Payne said the city’s legal services department has not been contacted by Adair Morse.

Jerome R. Morse confirmed Monday he is the lawyer representing the Warrens and that the family is considering litigation. Morse declined any further comment.

According to the firm’s website, Morse practice areas include practice areas include personal injury and fatalities involving motor product liability, public authority and occupier liability, professional negligence (physicians/lawyers/ engineers/accountants).

The washroom where the wall collapse took place has been closed to the public since the day Warren was fatally injured.