James Carpick

Background

About James Carpick

Areas of Practice: •Administrative •Arbitration & Mediation •Class Action Defence •Debtor / Creditor •Employment & Labour (including labour arbitration) •Environmental •Expropriation •Financial Services •Fraud and Misrepresentation •Intellectual Property •Internet & Technology •Civil Litigation (trial & appellate) •Municipal and Planning •Product Liability Jim is a trial lawyer with more than 25 years' experience. He has substantial property law experience in municipal, expropriation, and land use law, including subdivision, easements, building and development permits, bylaw enforcement, rezoning, and development generally, often in complex cases. He has significant experience in administrative law and judicial review. He has recently had a number of significant successes compelling or persuading municipalities to allow clients to develop their properties as they were entitled to do, which has put him in the forefront of leading practitioners in this area. He has also done trials and counselled clients regarding matters such as breach of contract, negligence, personal property and security, fraud and misrepresentation, financial services,landlord and tenant, breach of fiduciary duty, employment and labour disputes, intellectual property, environmental, estate, product liability, defence of class proceedings, arbitration and mediation, enforcement of judgments, insurance, professional negligence and discipline, real property and business valuation, and partnership and other business ownership disputes, and in other areas. This broad experience informs his advice to clients, which is always tailored to resolving disputes so the clients can get on with their businesses.