Professional Background

Ms. Cornish is a partner at Singleton Urquhart, specializing in commercial, property and workplace disputes.

In addition to a litigation practice, Ms. Cornish is actively involved in both mediation and arbitration on behalf of her own clients and as a mediator/arbitrator retained by others.

Ms. Cornish has a broad range of experience in most types of commercial disputes including:

• insurers, property owners, lessees, design professionals and others involved in construction, property and commercial leasing disputes;
• employers, contractors, and employees involved in employment, WCB, OHS, privacy and discrimination disputes;
• insurers and claimants in bodily injury, errors and omissions and property claims.

In addition to the above, Ms. Cornish is also the supervising lawyer of the BC Human Rights Clinic, an adjunct professor at UBC, and a Justice of the Peace Adjudicator for the Provincial Court of BC.

Mediation

Chartered Mediator, Alternate Dispute Resolution Institute of Canada;
Registrant, BC Mediator Roster Society;

Arbitration

Chartered Arbitrator, Alternate Dispute Resolution Institute of Canada;
Member, British Columbia Arbitration and Mediation Institute;
Arbitrator/Mediator, Sports Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada;
Appointee, Panel of Arbitrators, American Dispute Resolution Center;

Education

Called to the British Columbia Bar: 1990
BC Court of Appeal - Law Clerk to the Honourable Carrothers & Hinkson J.J.A.: 1988-1989
Bachelor of Laws, University of Victoria: 1988
Bachelor of Arts (Psychology/Linguistics), University of Alberta: 1985
Speech Pathology Licentiateship, University of Leeds: 1978


Avocations

Running, squash, skiing.

Contact:

Contact Barbara Cornish at bcornish@singleton.com