Alan M. Ross


T: 604.661.1055
F: 604.689.5177
E: aross@ekb.com

Assistant:   Jessica Burgess  
T: 604.661.1014

Practice Areas

Administrative & Regulatory
Commercial Litigation
Employment
Insurance
Personal Injury

Profile

Alan M. Ross is a litigation partner at Edwards, Kenny & Bray LLP and has been with the firm since 1973.

Mr. Ross has a comprehensive litigation practice involving commercial disputes, insurance coverage disputes, professional malpractice and serious personal injury claims, employment law and administrative law.

He has represented clients before administrative tribunals, at all levels of court in British Columbia and at the Supreme Court of Canada. Although prepared for litigation, Mr. Ross resolves the majority of his cases by direct negotiation or by other means of dispute resolution..

Representative Experience

  • Advice on contract, trust and other business disputes
  • Advice on and prosecution of serious personal injury claims caused by negligence, such as aviation, motor vehicle, products liability and occupier's liability
  • Advice on employer/employee obligations regarding matters such as dismissal, non-competition clauses and confidentiality of information provisions
  • Advice on insurance coverage issues
  • Successful resolution of many serious injury claims
  • Trials and appeals
  • Regulatory hearings, including discipline hearings
  • Judicial review of orders of tribunals 

Cases in which Mr. Ross has been counsel include:

  • First Pacific Credit Union v. Grimwood Sports Inc. (1984) 16 D.L.R. (4th) 181 in which the BC Court of appeal confirmed the court's power to replace a receiver-manager appointed under a debenture with one appointed by the court.
  •  Erickson v. Richmond School District No. 38, (1988) 30 B.C.L.R. (2d) 216, in which the BC Supreme Court set aside the suspension of EKB’s client by the school board as a result of the school board’s failure to act in accordance with fundamental administrative law principles.
  • Whitbread v. Walley, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 1273, a leading case in which the Supreme Court of Canada set out the broad scope of the federal power to legislate in respect of maritime law.
  • Dressew Supply Ltd. v. Laurentian Pacific Insurance Co., (1991) 57 B.C.L.R. (2d) 198, a case in which the BC Court of Appeal ruled on the applicability of statutory conditions under the BC Insurance Act to policies insuring against multiple risks.
  • P. (V.) v. L. (F.) (1996) 19 B.C.L.R. (3d) 338 in which the BC Court of Appeal clarified certain aspects of the law of privilege as it relates to communications claimed to be confidential and protected from disclosure.
  • Tradelink Distribution Ltd. (Canada) v. Rand & Fowler Insurance Ltd., [2001] B.C.J. No. 110, in which the BC Supreme Court awarded EKB’s client full indemnity for losses which were uninsured as a result of negligence on the part of the defendant insurance broker. 

Professional & Community Activities

Mr. Ross is a former president of the Vancouver Bar Association and former chair of the Civil Litigation section of the Canadian Bar Association (BC Branch). He is also a member of the Administrative Law, Civil Litigation, Health Law and Insurance Law sections of the Canadian Bar Association (BC Branch).

Education & Bar Admission

University of British Columbia, B.A.Sc., 1968
University of British Columbia, LL.B., 1972
Called to the British Columbia Bar in 1973

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