CATHERINE M. ESSON
Telephone: (604) 681-8410
Fax: (604) 687-7384
E-mail: cesson@tvsbarristers.com

Description of Practice: Corporate Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Securities Litigation; Administrative Law; Constitutional Law; Charter of Rights.

Education: University of British Columbia, LL.B., 1988; Queen's University, B.A., Hons., 1985.

Year/Call to the Bar: 1989, British Columbia.

Membership/Associations: Law Society of British Columbia; Canadian Bar Association.

Noteworthy Accomplishments and Interests:
Catherine Esson has acted as counsel in a wide variety of commercial litigation and administrative law matters.

Ms. Esson has appeared as counsel in all levels of Court in British Columbia and before the Supreme Court of Canada. She has also appeared as counsel before a variety of regulatory tribunals, including the British Columbia Securities Commission and the Law Society of British Columbia. Ms Esson specializes in advising clients in class action proceedings especially the ramifications of the class action legislation. Ms Esson also has been involved in several alternative dispute resolution proceedings.

Ms. Esson has written papers for and lectured at continuing legal education courses on a variety of topics including British Columbia’s class action legislation. She has also participated in a committee of the B.C. Securities Commission studying potential new civil remedies for breaches of the Securities Act.