Craig Ferris KC

Practice Areas

Alternative Dispute Resolution; Class Actions; Commercial Litigation; Construction, Infrastructure & Engineering; Insurance Litigation; Litigation & Dispute Resolution; Mining; Pensions and Benefits Litigation; Product Liability; Real Estate Litigation; Securities Litigation.

Career

Craig is one of British Columbia’s most accomplished litigation lawyers and acts for clients in commercial and business disputes. His particular areas of focus include shareholder remedies, trust, pension and fiduciary disputes, securities and transactional litigation, product liability, mining disputes and real estate litigation.

Craig has appeared in all levels of court in British Columbia as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. He also has extensive experience, both as counsel and as a neutral, in international and domestic arbitrations as well as in administrative settings, including before the British Columbia Securities Commission. Craig has particular knowledge of class actions and acted as lead counsel in several successful defences of major class proceedings in a wide variety of industries.

Professional Memberships

Canadian Lawyer Editorial Board, Board Member (2023 - current)

The Advocates’ Society, Director (2022 - current)

Law Society of British Columbia, President (2020), Bencher (2014 – 2019), Life Bencher and Discipline Committee, Non-Bencher Member (2010-12)

Supreme Court Advocacy Institute, Roster Member for British Columbia

Litigation Counsel of America, Senior Fellow (Trial Law Institute, Member and Diversity Law Institute, Member)

Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society, Member

Vancouver International Arbitration Centre, Domestic and International Arbitration Panelist

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

International Council for Commercial Arbitration, Member

ICC Canada Arbitration Committee, Member

Canadian Bar Association, Member

Vancouver Board of Trade, Member

Canadian Defence Lawyers Association, Member