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Active representing litigants in a wide range of areas of the law, practicing in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of British Columbia and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Mr. Braidwood’s trial and appellate experience includes:
- Acting for the Federal Government in R. v. Sparrow, a leading modern native rights case;
- Fales v. Canada Trust, a leading case on the duties of trustees;
- Complex construction litigation cases (one lasting over 121 days);
- Criminal cases;
- and Motor Vehicle Accident cases.
Mr. Braidwood also argued the London Drugs case in the Court of Appeal which allowed the advertising of prescription drugs in British Columbia, and acted for the Federal Government against the Law Society of British Columbia in
AG of Canada v. Law Society of British Columbia, a case that focused on the authority of the Law Society to place restrictions on the rights of lawyers to advertise their services.
While on the Court of Appeal he wrote a dissent in the Catholic Children’s Aide case, the reasons of which formed the basis for the amendment of the law of trusts in British Columbia.
Mr. Braidwood is active in the field of arbitration as counsel and as arbitrator. Recently, he served as an arbitrator in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery dispute in Fredericton, NB. He was also the Commissioner in the appropriate use of CEW’s (tasers) and wrote the report “Restoring Public Confidence”; also, he was the Commissioner in investigating the death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver International Airport and wrote the report “Why”, referring to such death.
Read the Braidwood Inquiry Report at braidwoodinquiry.ca/report
He has also sat as an arbitrator of the dispute on the cost over-run in the construction of the paper machine at Elk Falls. He also participated in a “mock test argument” of the B.C. Government’s case against the Tobacco industry. Other arbitrations include property evaluation, domestic, public and private.
CURRENT AREAS OF PRACTICE
Mr. Braidwood is now concentrating on opinions and arbitrations,
including but not limited to commercial real estate, estate,
construction, business partnerships and domestic.
Email:
TBraidwood@maclaw.bc.ca
Direct Line: 604-443-1224
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