Hayden Cook

Hayden is developing a varied litigation practice, focusing particularly on public law disputes.

Hayden received his J.D. from the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. During law school, Hayden assisted faculty with research in the areas of human rights, labour and constitutional law. His own work has been published in the Alberta Law Review.

He articled with Hunter Litigation Chambers before completing a clerkship working for six justices of the British Columbia Supreme Court. Hayden was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 2022.

Notable Cases

People Corporation v. White Raven Consulting Ltd et al, 2025 BCSC 2525 (with Brian Duong): counsel to People Corporation, a national provider of group insurance benefits, group retirement plans, and related administrative services, in obtaining an interlocutory injunction restraining the defendants from competing with it, soliciting its clients, or accepting work from its clients pending trial.

Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique v. British Columbia et al, 2025 BCSC 962 (with Claire Hunter, Brian Duong, Rebecca Robb, Susan Humphrey, and Paul Jon): counsel to the Province of British Columbia in a 117-day trial relating to minority language education rights.

Lamoureux v. Hedquist, 2025 BCCA 425 (with Paul Jon): counsel to the appellant in a family law matter in successfully appealing an award for unequal division of family property. The trial court had apportioned certain family property 75% to the respondent and 25% to the appellant. The Court of Appeal overturned the trial decision on that point and substituted an order for equal division.

Skycope Technologies Inc. v. X.L., 2024 BCSC 1885 (with Brian Duong and David Wotherspoon of Wotherspoon Law): counsel to Skycope, an anti-drone technology company, in obtaining against the defendant an urgent Anton Piller Order (a form of civil search warrant) to seize and preserve the company’s confidential information and an order prohibiting disclosure of that information. The case has been reported on in the news media.

Accurate Material Testing Ltd. v. Keshavarzi, 2023 BCSC 1302 (with Brian Duong and articling student Elspeth Adhihetty): counsel for a construction materials testing firm, Prima Testing and Engineering Ltd., and their principal, in successfully resisting an interlocutory injunction application alleging misappropriation of confidential client information.

Publications

Co-Author with Brian Duong, “The Enforcement of Restrictive Covenants in Commercial Agreements”, presented at the Continuing Legal Education course, Interim Remedies and Injunctions 2025 (October 29, 2025).

“Charter Applicability to Universities and the Regulation of On-Campus Expression” (2021) 58:4 Alberta Law Review 957

News

December 2025

Paul Jon and Hayden Cook successfully appealed an order for division of family property, which had initially been split 75% to 25% in favour of the respondent. The Court of Appeal substituted an order for equal division. The reasons for judgment can be found here.

October 2024

Brian Duong and Hayden Cook were counsel (along with David Wotherspoon of Wotherspoon Law) to Skycope Technologies Inc, an anti-drone technology company, in obtaining against the defendant an urgent Anton Piller Order (a form of civil search warrant) to seize and preserve the company’s confidential information and an order prohibiting disclosure of that information. The case has been reported on in the news media and can be found here.

September 2023

A team comprised of Claire E. Hunter, K.C., Brian Duong, Julia Roos, Susan Humphrey, Amanda Richards, Hayden Cook, and Elspeth Adhihetty (articled student) represented His Majesty the King in right of the Province of British Columbia and the Minister of Education and Child Care in respect of a series of applications filed as part of ongoing litigation with the Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique and the Vancouver Board of Education. Copies of the resulting decisions can be found here: 2023 BCSC 1554 (adjournment); 2023 BCSC 1332 (document production); and 2023 BCSC 1281 (pleadings).

July 2023

Brian Duong and Hayden Cook represented a construction materials testing firm, Prima Testing and Engineering Ltd. and their principal, in successfully resisting an interlocutory injunction application brought against them by Accurate Material Testing, alleging misappropriation of confidential client information. The reasons for judgment can be found here.

June 2023

Randy Kaardal K.C. and Hayden Cook successfully obtained leave to appeal and a stay of proceedings of a receivership order on behalf of Creative Wealth Media. A copy of the article can be found here.