Peter joined PCM Lawyers effective January 2019. Peter brings extensive experience to our team derived from practicing at his own firm, alongside Susan Arnold and Marcia McNeil, and practicing as a partner at two national labour law firms, where he advised and represented management-side labour and employment law clients.

From 1982 to 1985, Peter was a Vice-Chair of the BC Labour Relations Board.

Peter has appeared before the British Columbia and Yukon Supreme Courts, the BC Court of Appeal, the Federal Court Trial Division, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. He also regularly represents clients at the BC Labour Relations Board, the Canada Industrial Relations Board, the BC Human Rights Tribunal, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and before provincially and federally-appointed arbitration boards.

Peter is a former adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia where he taught labour law.

He is recognized as a leading practitioner in labour and employment law in each of the 2011-2016 editions of The Best Lawyers in Canada. He is repeatedly recognized in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in the area of labour relations, and is recognized in the latest edition of Who’s Who Legal in the area of labour, employment and benefits.

CREDENTIALS

• Law Society of British Columbia
• Law Society of Yukon
• Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers (CACE)
• LL.B. University of Toronto (1974)
• B. Comm (Hons) University of Manitoba (1971)

AREAS OF FOCUS

• Collective Agreements
• Arbitration and Dispute Resolution
• Labour Relations and Employment Law
• Human Rights
• Privacy

RECOGNITIONS

• Included in the 2020 Canadian Legal Expert® Directory: Labour (Management)
• Lexpert Business of Law
• Vancouver Leading Practitioners – Labour, repeatedly recommended.
• Listed in the 2021 Edition of Best Lawyers^TM in Canada in the fields of Labour and Employment Law
• Canada Who’s Who

* Peter R. Sheen provides legal services through a law corporation.