Andrew
Gay

Profile

Andrew has been advising clients in complex disputes for 30 years, with a practice defined by exacting preparation, strategic insight, and results.

Clients describe him as smart, thoughtful, highly capable, and a lawyer they return to for their most important work. He builds enduring relationships based on trust, results, and a deep understanding of his clients’ environments.

He maintains a broad litigation practice with an emphasis on public law. He is widely recognized for his expertise in administrative law, including regulatory, licensing, and professional discipline matters.  He is an advisor to professional regulators and tribunals in British Columbia and has litigated numerous applications for judicial review.  His broader practice includes commercial and tort litigation, government liability, constitutional matters, civil forfeiture, negligence, civil fraud, defamation, property disputes, and civil sexual assault cases. This experience allows him to identify arguments and strategic opportunities that more narrowly focused counsel may overlook.

Andrew has argued numerous significant cases before the British Columbia Court of Appeal with a high rate of success.  These have included appeals concerning Charter damages, the constitutionality of legislation, government liability, misfeasance in public office, civil forfeiture, judicial compensation, municipal law, professional regulation and liability for forest fires. 

Recognized as an expert on British Columbia liquor law, he acts for restaurants, bars, arenas and private liquor stores in disputes with the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch and advises on regulatory compliance.

Andrew is ranked in Benchmark Litigation as a leading expert in British Columbia in dispute resolution and litigation.

For many years he taught government liability as an Adjunct Professor at the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia and is the co-author of the chapter on nuisance law in Canada’s leading textbook on government liability.