Attorney General Shirley Bond announced December 11 that she has appointed 30 lawyers with the honourary designation of Queen’s counsel (QC).
The designation is a mark of prestige among lawyers and is announced annually to recognize exceptional merit and contribution.
The 2012 inductees to the QC club are:
- Roderick Hugh George Holloway, Legal Services Society;
- Avon Metford Mersey, partner at Fasken Martineau;
- Kenneth Mitchell Walker, partner at Wozniak & Walker;
- Donald Noriyuki Kawano, lawyer at Rella & Paolini;
- Rodney Albert Snow, Davis LLP;
- Stuart Bishop Hankison, managing director at Shapiro Hankinson & Knutson Law Corp.;
- Michael Gardner Armstrong, litigation counsel at Armstrong Simpson;
- Elizabeth June Watson, president of Watson Advisors Inc.;
- Guy Patrick Brown, partner at Harper Grey LLP;
- Simon Brian Margolis, managing partner at Bull Housser & Tupper LLP;
- Albert Murrow Roos, partner at Sugden, McFee & Roos;
- Michael James Shepherd, B.C. Ministry of Justice’s legal services branch;
- William Ross Younie, partner at Ridgeway and Co.;
- Carla Lorraine Forth, Guild Yule LLP;
- Robert Wallace Grant, Heenan Blaikie LLP;
- Herman Henry Van Ommen, regional managing partner at McCarthy Tetrault LLP;
- Dominic Antonio Petraroia, managing partner at Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP;
- Ronald Arthur Skolrood, partner at Lawson Lundell LLP;
- William Westeringh, managing partner at Fasken Martineau;
- Carmen Joy Rogers, Crown counsel for the B.C. Ministry of Justice’s criminal justice branch;
- Anthony Avery Vecchio, partner at Slater Vecchio LLP;
- Robert Parvis Pirooz, general counsel at Pan American Silver Corp.;
- J. Douglas Eastwood, senior litigation lawyer for the B.C. Ministry of Justice;
- Palbinder Kaur Shergill, general counsel for the World Sikh Organization;
- Jennifer Mary Isabel Duncan, Crown prosecutor at the B.C. Ministry of Justice;
- Hubert Lai, chief legal officer, University of British Columbia;
- Mary Templeton Ainslie, Crown counsel with the B.C. Ministry of Justice’s criminal justice branch;
- Sharon Denise Matthews, partner at Camp Fiorante Matthews Mogerman;
- Clinton Jean Sadlemyer, Crown counsel at the B.C. Ministry of Justice; and
- Angus MacLeod Gunn, partner at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.
