Shafik Bhalloo focuses on corporate commercial litigation (multiparty commercial/corporate and securities cases), general civil litigation (prosecution and defense of personal injury, fire and casualty claims, breaches of sale of goods, and real estate contracts and negligence claims against insurance and real estate companies, agents and brokers) and labour and employment law (grievances, collective bargaining, certification applications and employment terminations). Certified in mediation, he counsels in commercial, insurance, labour and employment disputes.
Shafik appears before the Labour Relations Board in certification applications and unfair labour practice complaints and before the Supreme Court of British Columbia on wrongful dismissal matters. He has lectured on noncompetition contract covenants, presented for the Continuing Legal Education Society and the Vancouver Board of Trade, among others, and authored several academic articles.
Shafik was born in Tanzania. He has been a partner of Kornfeld LLP since 2000.
Honours
- Lecturer and presenter, Continuing Legal Education Society
- Lecturer and presenter, Vancouver Board of Trade
- Member, Judicial Advisory Committee
- Member, Vancouver Police Department’s Diversity Advisory Committee
- Member, Conciliation and Arbitration Board of the Ismailia Community
- Legal officer, pro bono legal advice program of the Salvation Army
- Adjunct professor, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University
Bar Admission
- British Columbia, 1990
Publications
- “Reinstatement: The quintessential “make whole” remedy or a fiction?” 70 The Advocate 845 (November 2012)
- “Employers beware: The myth of temporary layoff may result in a wrongful dismissal liability,” The Advocate, January 2011 (with Gareth Carline).
- “Enforcement of Benefits Under The Employment Standards Act: A Single Jurisdiction for Enforcement Affirmed,” U.B.C. Law Review, September 2010.
- “Removing, adding or substituting a party after judgment or a final order: Can it be done, and when?” The Advocate, March 2007.
- “Notice extension for bad faith dismissal: ‘a remedy divorced from the wrong,’” The Verdict, October 2006.
- “Bad faith damages in wrongful dismissal cases: Post Wallace jurisprudence,” The Advocate, May 2006.
- “Jurisdictional Issues in Electronic Commerce: A Canadian Perspective,” The Computer Law Review and Technology Journal, Winter 2004.
- “The curative provision in Section 43(6) of the Personal Property Security Act: How misleading is a ‘seriously misleading’ error?” The Advocate, May 2004
“Employment Contracts: Enforcing Non-Competition,” The Advocate, November 1995
Education
- Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, LLM, with a focus on e-Business
- Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, LLB
- Simon Fraser University, BA with Honours