Bio

David practices civil and commercial litigation with an emphasis on maritime, occupational health and safety, and environmental law matters. David’s maritime law practice includes representation of clients in administrative and regulatory matters, cargo damage, oil pollution, personal injury, and marine insurance. David’s occupational health and safety practice includes casualty investigations involving serious workplace injuries and fatalities. He advises employers with respect to issues arising from these investigations, and from inspection reports and orders of the BC Workers’ Compensation Board. David’s environmental law practice includes contaminated sites litigation, due diligence matters, and defence of environmental prosecutions. David’s practice has included litigation in all levels of Courts in British Columbia, and the Federal Court at trial and appellate levels, as well as participation in arbitrations and mediations as counsel. David has also appeared before administrative tribunals such as the British Columbia Environmental Appeal Board on matters relating to British Columbia’s contaminated sites legislation, and the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada on maritime matters. David has authored articles on topical legal issues for a local shipping magazine for over ten years. He has guest lectured at Royal Roads University B.Sc. program in environmental studies, conducted seminars on maritime legal issues to a number of groups, participated in a panel on practice for Continuing Legal Education, and co-authored a paper on discovery of documents for CLE. David is an annual contributor to CLE’s Due Diligence Deskbook on chapters relating to Ships, and to Fisheries and Oceans. David also contributes annually to CLE’s PPSA Practice Manual on vessel financing. Education: L.L.M, University of Wales, 1995; M.A., Simon Fraser University 1994; LL.B., University of Victoria, 1993; B.A., Simon Fraser University, 1989;