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Tim A. Dickson

Tim A. Dickson

Partner

Telephone: 604 661 9341

Facsimile: 604 661 9349

Email: tdickson@farris.com

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Tim is a partner in Farris’ litigation group in Vancouver. He practices as general counsel, with extensive experience in commercial law, public and administrative law, inquiries, appeals and judicial reviews. Tim acts for public and private clients – including government bodies, corporations and individuals – before all levels of court in British Columbia and in the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as before administrative bodies and commissions of inquiry. Within commercial law, he has litigated such matters as contractual disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent conveyances and trust claims. He has acted on a wide range of constitutional issues, as well as on administrative matters such as the powers of municipalities, expropriations and judicial reviews. 

Tim grew up in Vancouver and came to Farris after studying law at the University of Toronto and clerking at the BC Court of Appeal.


REPRESENTATIVE CASES:

Public and Administrative Law

Commercial Law

Estate Litigation

  • Co-counsel for the executor and beneficiaries on a Wills Variation Act claim to a large estate by a common law spouse: Picketts v. Hall (Estate): http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt/CA/09/03/2009BCCA0329.htm (Court of Appeal).
  • Counsel for plaintiffs and defendants in a number of Wills Variation Act cases.

PUBLICATIONS:

  • “Section 25 and Intercultural Judgment” (2003), 61 U.T. Fac. L. Rev. 141-174 (cited by Bastarache J. in R. v. Kapp, [2008] 2 S.C.R. 483, 2008 SCC 41)
  • “Self-Government by Side Agreement?” (2004), 49 McGill L.J. 419

EDUCATION:

  • University of Toronto (LL.B., 2003)
  • McGill University (B.A.,1998)

LEGAL RECOGNITION
  • Called to the British Columbia Bar (2004)