Course Chairs
Meg Gaily — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Tammy Shoranick — Boughton Law Corporation, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Meg Gaily is a member of Lawson Lundell's Research and Opinions Group. She regularly provides legal research, opinions, and submissions on a wide range of legal topics.
Her background includes advising clients and organizations in a variety of practice areas including administrative law, labour and employment, civil procedure and appellate practice, professional conduct, and Aboriginal law.
Prior to joining Lawson Lundell, Meg was the Legal Counsel to the Court of Appeal for BC for nine years, providing legal and related policy advice to the court. Most recently, Meg has acted as a decision-maker and an adjudicator. She was the Research Counsel to the Cohen Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River 2009-2012, and has worked on the CLE texts, Civil Jury Instructions, Canadian Criminal Jury Instructions, and the Family Law Sourcebook for British Columbia.
Tammy Shoranick is counsel at Boughton Law Corporation, providing research support to the firm’s lawyers and clients across the firm's practice areas. She researches complex legal issues, prepares opinions for clients, and develops submissions for court and other proceedings.
Prior to joining Boughton Law, Tammy started her legal career as a litigator, practicing at an international law firm in New York and a national law firm in Vancouver, and has been involved in a wide range of complex commercial cases. She has experience at all levels of court, including extensive appellate experience. Tammy successfully represented a boutique investment bank in the leading Supreme Court of Canada case on contractual interpretation and judicial review of commercial arbitration awards, Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp. She also represented the Secretariat of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) as intervener in the Supreme Court of Canada in Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford.
Faculty
The Honourable Madam Justice Miriam A. Maisonville — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Meg Gaily — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Camden Hutchison — Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of BC, Vancouver
Komal Jatoi — Dentons Canada LLP, Vancouver
Tracy McLean — Manager, Information Services, Courthouse Libraries BC, Vancouver
Alex McNeur — Manager, Information Resources, Courthouse Libraries BC, Vancouver
Kate R. Phipps — Arvay Finlay LLP, Vancouver
Tammy Shoranick — Boughton Law Corporation, Vancouver
Megan Vis-Dunbar — Liaison Lawyer, Courthouse Libraries BC, Vancouver
Catherine Whitehead — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
David Wotherspoon — Dentons Canada LLP, Vancouver
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