Graham Allen practises mainly in the areas of property tax assessment, commercial arbitration and Aboriginal Law.
He has extensive experience in assessment matters and represents property owners such as Cadbridge Investors and the Four Seasons Hotel in their ongoing appeals of property tax assessments. His earlier career as a real estate appraiser is of major benefit in this assessment work, as well as expropriation work.
Mr. Allen also acts both as arbitrator and as counsel to parties in arbitration proceedings. He is an active member of the international Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been awarded the Chartered Arbitrator designation by the Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Canada.
Mr. Allen has a vast amount of experience in First Nations’ work. He became Land Management Advisor to the Sechelt Indian Band in 1973 and became Band Lawyer in 1979. He was instrumental in Sechelt’s becoming the most legally advanced Band in Canada under the Indian Act and eventually becoming the first self-governing Band in Canada. Mr. Allen has represented many First Nations and native groups over the years. In fact, for over 35 years, Graham Allen has been closely involved with many of the significant events affecting the well-being of First Nations in British Columbia.
Graham Allen was a partner in Snarch & Allen for 20 years, then joined Boughton Law Corporation in 2006.
University of London, LL.B.
University of Reading, M.Sc., Urban Land Appraisal
University of British Columbia, J.D.
University of British Columbia, Currently
enrolled in LL.M. program
Year of Call: 1979 (B.C.)
