Gavin Giles

Gavin is a member of the Board of Directors, and a Partner at McInnes Cooper. Gavin carries on a mature and very active general dispute resolution practice with special emphasis on commercial, construction, complex insurance and human rights issues. He has been recognized for many years by both Best Lawyers Canada and by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory of Leading Lawyers. He is also listed by Benchmark Litigation Canada as a Provincial Litigation Star. He has appeared before the Federal Court of Canada, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, the Federal Human Rights Tribunal, the Nova Scotia Provincial and Family Courts and the Courts of Appeal and Superior Courts of many other Provinces and Territories. He has also appeared before the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board and the Nova Scotia Labour Standards Tribunal. He has tried matters before both juries and judges alone. The matters in which he has been involved have been reported more than 100 times. He is also an active proponent of alternative forms of commercial dispute resolution, especially mediation and he conducts an active arbitration practice.