Byron Shaw is an associate in our Litigation Group in Toronto. He has a general litigation practice that includes corporate and commercial litigation and medical defence work on behalf of the Canadian Medical Protective Association. He has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal and various administrative tribunals.
Mr. Shaw clerked for the Court of Appeal for Ontario prior to being called to the Ontario bar in 2009. He received his BA (Hons.) in Economics from the University of British Columbia in 2005 and his LLB from the University of British Columbia in 2008.
Mr. Shaw is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Bar Association and the Advocates Society.
Publications:
· Constitutional Law, 4th ed., co-written with Patrick Monahan, forthcoming in Irwin Law series.
· "The Impact of Extra-Judicial Service on the Canadian Judiciary: The Need for Reform" co-written with Patrick Monahan, H.P. Lee, ed. Judiciaries in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
· "Indemnities for Acts Done at Another's Request" (2011) U.B.C. Law Rev. Vol. 44, No. 2, 331-379.
· "Supreme Court of Canada Affirms the Request Principle in R. Imperial Tobacco", (2012) U.B.C. Law Rev. Vol. 45, No. 1, 247-252.
· "The Arbitrability of Oppression Claims" (2011) The Advocate Vol. 69, Part 1, 21-27.