Rick Williams

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Work: Oil & Gas
  Lead counsel in the first common carrier/common processor hearing before the BCUC in over 30 years, which established the test to be applied in BC.
  Lead counsel in the successful challenge of a public utility's discriminatory security deposit policy before the BCUC.
  Acted on successful applications to the ERCB, obtaining one of the largest interim shut-ins ever.
  Lead counsel on number of appeals to the Oil
  Gas Appeal Tribunal.
  Lead counsel on many successful arbitrations/motions before the BC Surface Rights Board.
  Environmental
  Acted in a precedent-setting environmental case, the first trial in BC to consider what are reasonably incurred costs of remediation under BC's legislation.
  Represented the British Columbia Ministry of Forests on a 20-day trial resulting in its acquittal of all charges under the federal Fisheries Act.
  Maritime
  Lead counsel for a foreign bank in the arrest
  judicial sale of a vessel, including overseeing a courthouse auction (part of global efforts to enforce a $77-million judgment from a US court).
  Acted for an international shipping company in successfully defending the validity of an arrest to the Supreme Court of Canada.