Jason Herbert has practised administrative law and litigation with the firm since 1999 and is currently the co-chair of the Canadian Professional Governance and Regulation practice.
Jason practises principally in the areas of professional regulation, electricity regulation, and public law litigation.
Jason’s professional regulation practice focuses on advising professional regulatory clients on governance, legislative reforms, bylaw and policy development, professional conduct review and discipline, registration and licensure, public policy advocacy, regulatory compliance, human rights, labour mobility, access to information and privacy, and risk management. His clients include regulatory bodies for multiple professions in British Columbia and Yukon.
Jason is also experienced in advising and acting for a wide range of other clients in, or dealing with, the public sector. This includes advising and acting for clients in the energy and education sectors and acting as litigation counsel in judicial review and other public law litigation.
Jason has appeared as counsel before the British Columbia Supreme Court, the Federal Court of Canada, and the British Columbia, Yukon and Federal Courts of Appeal. He has also appeared as an advocate before various administrative and regulatory tribunals and agencies, including the Yukon Utilities Board, the BC Utilities Commission, the Yukon Water Board, the BC Health Professions Review Board, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of BC, and the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in BC.
Jason was the Silver Medallist in the 1997 graduating class at the University of Toronto Law School. He was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1999 after completing a one-year clerkship with the Supreme Court of British Columbia, with Madam Justice Saunders as his principal. Jason has also been a member of the Yukon Bar since 2009.
Jason was also the Governor General’s Medallist for the University of British Columbia Faculty of Arts in 1992, and completed a Master's degree in mathematics at the University of Toronto in 1994.
Jason is rated AV® Preeminent, the highest peer review rating, by Martindale-Hubbell. He is also listed by Best Lawyers in Canada for Administrative and Public Law and was recognized by Lexpert in 2010 as a Canadian Litigation Lawyer to Watch.
Jason also volunteers with the Youth Parliament of British Columbia Alumni Society and serves as the current Vice Chair (and past Chair) of its Board of Directors. He also serves as a member of the national Board of Directors of Canada Artistic Swimming.
