Paul S. Jon

Paul has a varied litigation and appellate practice in a wide range of areas including constitutional law, administrative law, human rights law, criminal law, and civil disputes. He assists clients with matters before the Supreme Court of Canada, all levels of court in British Columbia, and various administrative tribunals and regulatory bodies.

Paul received his J.D. from the University of British Columbia in 2020, graduating as the gold medallist and as a Wesbrook Scholar. As a law student, Paul worked as a research assistant for several professors and served as a peer tutor and a member of the executive for the Law Students’ Legal Advice Program. He was also a member of UBC’s Gale Cup Moot team and a clinician for the UBC Innocence Project.

Before joining Hunter Litigation Chambers, Paul served as a judicial law clerk to Justices Mary Saunders and Peter Voith at the Court of Appeal for British Columbia in 2020–21 and to Justice Malcolm Rowe at the Supreme Court of Canada in 2022–23. He articled for a leading regional law firm in Vancouver and was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 2022.

Notable Cases

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 Hayden Cook): 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 Hayden Cook): 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.

Publications

Paul S. Jon, “Tenant Organizing and the Campaign for Collective Bargaining Rights in British Columbia, 1968–75” (2020) 206 BC Studies 31

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.

January 2024

Claire Hunter, K.C. and Chantelle van Wiltenburg (with drafting assistance from Paul Jon and articled student Elspeth Adhihetty) represented an Indigenous child protection agency and successfully petitioned to quash a decision of the BC Human Rights Tribunal. Below, the Tribunal had found that the agency discriminated against a parent and awarded $150,000 in compensation. The Court set aside the Tribunal’s decision, holding that the Tribunal’s process was unfair and that the Tribunal committed legal errors. The Court remitted the case to the Tribunal and directed that the agency be afforded an opportunity to apply to have the human rights complaint summarily dismissed.