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Chair of the firm's Commercial Litigation Group in Vancouver. General litigation
counsel experienced in business disputes, including corporate, partnership and joint-
venture disputes; investment; contract (particularly purchase and sale agreements);
fraud, breach of trust and fiduciary duty cases; securities (civil and regulatory disputes);
real estate and municipal cases; class actions; pension disputes and tax cases. Experienced
with applications for emergency relief, such as Mareva freeze orders, injunctions and
Anton Piller orders. Also practices administrative/regulatory law, including investiga-
tions and regulatory hearings; public law and white-collar criminal cases. Admitted to
BC Bar in 1986. Appointed QC, 2004. Ranked AV by Martindale-Hubbell. Recognized
for corporate commercial litigation, dispute resolution and directors' & officers' liability
by Lexpert®, Chambers Global, Benchmark Canada, e Legal 500 and e Best Lawyers
in Canada. Included in e Lexpert®/ALM Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada,
2009‒2014. Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Senior partner of the firm, James Woods practices exclusively in litigation and arbitra-
tion and has pleaded at all levels of the federal and provincial courts in Ontario and
Québec, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Member of the Faculty of Law
and lecturer in civil litigation at McGill University. Author of Cases and Materials on
Civil Procedure (Carswell Legal Publications, 1987) and numerous articles and papers,
including "Measuring the Results of Class Actions," IBA Conference on Class Actions,
Rome, 2007. Called to the Bars of Québec in 1976, Ontario in 1979, Alberta and British
Columbia in 2006, England and Wales in 2007 and Barreau de Paris in 2013. He has
also acted as an arbitrator, either as president or member of an arbitration tribunal, and
has acted as attorney in many commercial and international arbitrations, either ad hoc
or ICC.
Senior counsel and leader of the firm's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. Top
ranked by Chambers Global in dispute resolution. Named one of Canada's 25 Most
Influential Lawyers by Canadian Lawyer (2013). Named Best Lawyers' 2012 Vancou-
ver Class Action Lawyer and 2010 Corporate and Commercial Litigator. Listed in eight
areas of practice by e Best Lawyers in Canada. Featured in e Lexpert®/American
Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers. Recognized for Litigation by Who's Who
Legal Canada 2015. Named a litigation star for arbitration, class actions and securities
in Canada by Benchmark Canada 2015. Chair of the BC Justice Reform Initiative 2012.
Counsel to commissions of inquiry into Indian Affairs Policy, Securities Regulation
and the Frank Paul Inquiry. Counsel in the SCC on constitutional and Charter issues,
commercial, tort and administrative law. Active on investor-state and international
commercial arbitration matters, including CMD v. DRC. Former Director and Chair of
Legal Services Society and BC Chair of American College of Trial Lawyers. Appointed
QC, 1997.
John J.L. Hunter has a general commercial litigation and arbitration practice with
Hunter Litigation Chambers in Vancouver, BC. He appears regularly in the trial and
appellate courts of British Columbia in a wide range of commercial and public law
matters and has represented clients as diverse as Imperial Tobacco, Weyerhaeuser and the
Attorney General of British Columbia in the Supreme Court of Canada. In 2013 he was
appointed amicus curiae by the Supreme Court of Canada in the Senate Reform Refer-
ence. Hunter is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International
Society of Barristers. In addition to his practice as counsel, he is frequently called upon
to act as arbitrator in commercial disputes. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Arbitrators and a member of the Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society. He
was President of the Law Society of British Columbia in 2008 and of the Federation of
Law Societies of Canada in 2012. Called to the Bars of British Columbia (1977), Ontario
and the Yukon. Appointed Queen's Counsel in 1994.
Mark D.
Andrews, QC
Fasken
Martineau
DuMoulin LLP
Tel: (604) 631-3115
Fax: (604) 632-3115
Vancouver
James A.
Woods, AdE
Woods LLP
Tel: (514) 982-4503
Fax: (514) 284-2046
Montréal
Geoffrey
Cowper, QC
Fasken
Martineau
DuMoulin LLP
Tel: (604) 631-3185
Fax: (604) 632-3185
Vancouver
John J.L.
Hunter, QC
Hunter Litigation
Chambers
Tel: (604) 891-2401
Fax: (604) 647-4554
Vancouver
mandrews@fasken.com
jwoods@woods.qc.ca
gcowper@fasken.com
jhunter@litigationchambers.com
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