Peter Swanson

• Partner
• Bernard Barristers | Solicitors
• https://www.bernardllp.ca/

Peter is a founding partner of the firm with over 35 years of professional legal experience. He practices primarily in the fields of maritime and health law.

Peter’s maritime case work involves carriage of goods by sea, civil and regulatory liability for ship source pollution, collisions, chartering and other contract disputes, maritime lien enforcement or response, ship arrest and sale, advice in response to port state control actions, immigration in the context of shipping, as well as constitutional issues arising in the context of “navigation and shipping”. Peter also routinely advises on the preparation and completion of transport and terminal contract documentation and is often involved in casualty investigations in both a marine and non-marine context.

Peter is an Adjunct Professor of law co-teaching the Maritime Law course at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia to 2^nd and 3^rd year law students; and a regular contributor to local trade journals on maritime law topics. He has written for the Advocate, the International Insurance Law Review, and co-authored the section on Canada for the International Comparative Legal Guide to: Commodities and Trade Law 2006.