The Honourable Thomas R. Braidwood, Q.C.

Following the completion of his law degree at the UBC., Mr Braidwood founding member joined the law firm of Braidwood, Nuttall, MacKenzie. He was called to the bar of British Columbia in 1967 and to the Yukon Territories 10 years later. He was granted a QC on December 3, 1971. On December 6, 1990, Mr. Braidwood was appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia and in December 1996 to the Court of Appeal of British Columbia and the Yukon Territories, positions he held until the end of 2006.

Mr Braidwood has been an active participant in continuing legal education. He was elected as a bencher of the Law Society of British Columbia and was appointed as a Life Bencher. He is a member of the ADR Chambers, a group providing alternate dispute resolution services at the national and international level. He has served as a tutor in the articles programme and a guest lecturer in the Faculty of Law at UBC. He was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in August 1982. He is a member of the British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre. He is an associate ethics commissioner for the Olympics.

Mr Braidwood continues to practice with the law firm of MacKenzie Fujisawa LLP. He was active in many areas of law, practicing in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of British Columbia and the Supreme Court of Canada. Currently, he is focusing on opinions and arbitrations, including but not limited to commercial real estate, construction, business partnerships and domestic.