Paul S. Jon

Paul is developing a general litigation practice.

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.

Publications

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

News

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.