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Mr. Hawkins practices in the
area of Maritime law advising clients on matters relating to
marine insurance, collision, tug and tow, cargo litigation, oil
pollution, marine personal injury and maritime commercial matters
and conducts cases in the trial and appellate courts of the Federal
Court of Canada, the Courts of British Columbia and the Supreme
Court of Canada. |
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| Bernard & Partners, Founding
Partner, 2002 to Present |
Campney & Murphy, 1988 to 2002,
Partner, 1996 |
Law Clerk to the County Court of Vancouver, 1987-1988 |
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Adjunct Professor of Maritime Law
- University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, 1996 to Present |
Executive Committee Member Canadian
Maritime Law Association 2003 to Present |
Chair - Maritime Law Section (B.C.) C.B.A. 2005 to
Present |
Chair - Legislation Committee - Chamber of Shipping
of BC. 2005 to Present |
Secretary Maritime Law Section
(B.C.) C.B.A., 2001 - 2003 |
Member Legislation Committee,
British Columbia Chamber of Shipping, 1995-2003 |
Executive Committee Member - B.C. Marine Insurance
Association, 2003 |
Vice-Chair - Maritime Law Section (B.C.) C.B.A., 2003 |
Treasurer Maritime Law Section
(B.C.), C.B.A., 2000 |
Member Underwater Cultural
Heritage Committee, Canadian Maritime Law Association, 2000 - 2003 |
Chairman Maritime Law Subsection
(BC), C.B.A., Canada Shipping Act Reform Committee, 1997, 1998 |
Member - Oil Pollution Response Committee, British
Columbia Chamber of Shipping, 1992 - 1994 |
Member - Maritime Law Subsection (BC), C.B.A., Contributory
Negligence Committee, 1995 |
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"Recent Coast Guard Initiatives',
Harbour and Shipping, July 1991 |
"Assessment of Salvage Reward", Harbour
and Shipping, January 1992 |
"Owners Cannot Rely on the Sheriff
to Insure an Arrested Vessel', Harbour and Shipping, August 1992 |
"Oil Spills - Is There a Defence?",
Harbour and Shipping, November, 1992 |
"Oil Spill Response - Industry or Government?",
Harbour and Shipping, February, 1993 |
"The Court of Appeal on Cargo
Damage Liability and Apportionment of Liability", Harbour and
Shipping, September 1993 |
"An Insurable Interest Alone May
Attract Recovery Under Policy of Insurance", Harbour and Shipping,
April 1994 |
"An Insurable Interest Alone May
Attract Recovery Under Policy of Insurance in Canada", International
Insurance Law Review, September 1994 |
"Defence of Inevitable Accident",
Harbour and Shipping, November, 1994 |
"The Cisco - Quantifying Damage Revisited", Harbour & Shipping,
March 1995 |
"Fairness in Application of Standards
for Vessel Construction and Measurement", Harbour and Shipping,
February 1996 |
"Amendments to the Canada Shipping Act",
Oil and Gas Law and Taxation Review, December 1996 |
"Tug and Tow - In B.C. The Course
Changes for Owners and Insurers; Sea Imp VIII (The)", International
Insurance Law Review, January 1997 |
"Maritime Law Handbook - Canada Part I, II, III" Kluwer
Law and Taxation Publishers, 1997 |
"Bill C-58: The New Regime in Limitation and Liability",
International Maritime Law, May 1997 |
"Sarabia v. Oceanic Mindoro", International
Maritime Law, June 1997 |
"The Prince Rupert Blockade" Harbour
and Shipping, September 1997 |
"The Supreme Court of Canada Rules
that Contributory Negligence is not a Bar to Maritime Claims",
Harbour and Shipping, February 1998 |
"Bill S-4 Amendments to Canada Shipping Act",
Harbour and Shipping, August 1998 |
"Creditors' Rights in Canadian Maritime Actions, Procedures",
Harbour and Shipping, April 1999 |
"Due Diligence Defence Available in B.C.",
Harbour and Shipping, August 1999 |
"Review of Pilotage Issues", Harbour
and Shipping, February 2000 |
"Laing v. Boreal Pacific", International
Maritime Law, March 2000 |
"Are Owners or Charterers Responsible for Stowage?",
Harbour and Shipping, October 2000 |
"The Sheena M", Harbour & Shipping,
July 2001 |
"The New Marine Liability Act Now in Force",
Harbour & Shipping, January 2002 |
"Pay to be Paid Wording in Marine Insurance Policies",
Harbour & Shipping, August 2002 |
"Terrorism - Concerns Over Port Security",
Harbour & Shipping, March 2003. |
"Who Pays the Freight?", Harbour & Shipping,
October 2003 |
"Is the Motor Carrier Protected Under the Ocean
Bill of Lading", Harbour & Shipping, December 2004 |
"Port State: Out of Control", Harbour & Shipping,
May 2004 |
"Compliance with Court Orders", Harbour & Shipping,
June 2005 |
“Vessel Tie Up to Boom Sticks is Trespass”, Harbour & Shipping, January 2006 |
“Time Charterers’ Responsibility to Stow Safely”, Harbour & Shipping, December 2006 |
“Provincial Incursions Into Navigation and Shipping”, Harbour & Shipping, June 2007 |
"Google it' - Undersea Cable Protection”, Harbour & Shipping, January 2008" |
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Adjunct Professor of Maritime Law
at University of British Columbia Faculty of Law 1995 to
Present |
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Maritime Law Under Attack - The "Harbour Lynx" case, B.C. Marine Insurance Association, May 2007 |
Bankruptcy and Maritime Law - A Peaceful Co-Existence - RVYC Seminar, April 2007 |
Speaker at B.C. Marine Insurance Association Seminar on Insurance Issues and Terrorism, April 2003 |
| Speaker at Institute of Chartered
Ship Brokers Seminar on Terrorism and Insurance Issues", July
2002 |
Guest Lecturer at Vietnam Transport
Department Seminars on Maritime Law, Hanoi, Ho Chi Min City, April
1999 |
Speaker at Institute of Chartered
Ship Brokers Seminar on War & Terrorism Insurance
Considerations for Shipping, Vancouver, B.C., January 2002 |
Speaker at Canadian Coast Guard Seminar on Charter
Vessels, September 1992 |
| Speaker at Association of Marine
Underwriters of B.C. Seminar - Marine · Personal Injury
Claims, June 1994 |
Participant at Vancouver Port
Corporation · Scenario-Based Seminar on Ships-Source Oil
Spills in Vancouver Port, September 1996 |
Speaker at Canadian Maritime Law
Association Open Meeting on Bill C-58 Limitation of Liability for
Maritime Claims, March 1997 |
Speaker at Marine Spill Response Conference on Agencies
and Their Roles, April 1997 |
Speaker at Association of Marine
Underwriters of B.C. Seminar on C-59 Carriage of Passengers by
Sea Act, June 1997 |
Invited counsel at "Mock" Mini
Trial conducted by the Maritime Arbitrators Association of B.C.,
November 1997 |
| Lecturer at Pacific Marine Training Centre on collisions,
tug and tow and salvage, November 1997 |
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Called to British Columbia Bar, 1988 |
University of Saskatchewan Law School, LL.B, 1987 |
Simon Fraser University, B.A., 1983 |
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