Peter A. Gall, Q.C. is a partner with our Labour & Employment Law group and member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Mr. Gall is widely recognized for his expertise in labour and employment law, both in the private and public sectors. He has acted as counsel before various administrative tribunals and at all levels of the courts.

He has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada on numerous occasions. He has argued a number of the highest profile labour relations cases relating to Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms: RWDSU v. Dolphin Delivery Ltd.; Stoffman v. Vancouver General Hospital; Harrison v. University of British Columbia; R. v. Advance Cutting & Coring Ltd.; Health Services (Bill 29); Fraser v. Ontario. He also acted as counsel for the Canada Labour Relations Board in the Prince Rupert Grain case, as well as for the Province of British Columbia in the Meiorin case.

Mr. Gall was counsel to the Korbin Commission on the contractual relationships between the government and doctors in British Columbia.

He has authored numerous articles on administrative, labour and constitutional law. A regular guest speaker in Canada and abroad, he has been a keynote speaker at the Stanford lectures for Canadian Judges. He has served as the associate editor of the Administrative Law Reports and is a former contributing editor of the Canadian Occupational Health and Safety Cases. He is an adjunct professor at both Stanford and the University of Victoria Law Schools, and was Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Law School during the Fall term of 2004.

Mr. Gall is listed as a leader in Employment, Labour & Pensions: Labour for Employers in  Chambers Global 2010: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business and is peer-rated as one of the country’s best labour and employment lawyers in the Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada published by Lexpert/American Lawyer. He is also recognized as a leading practitioner in management-side labour and employment law by Who's Who Legal 2010 as well as in the areas of alternative dispute resolution and labour and employment law in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada (Woodward/White). Mr. Gall has been awarded Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rating (“AV”) for his skills and sense of ethics.

Mr. Gall joined Heenan Blaikie in 1991. Formerly, he worked with other firms in Vancouver including Russell & DuMoulin as well as Davis & Co., and was a founding partner of the Blake, Cassels and Graydon office in Vancouver. Earlier in his career, from 1976 to 1980, he was an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia Law School.