Beddoes Litigation is a Vancouver litigation boutique named as such after founder
Arden Beddoes, an “up-and-coming” litigation star in the making. Beddoes boasts an impressive résumé, having earned his stripes at venerated shops such as Toronto’s celebrated litigation boutique Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb and Vancouver institution Farris. He also was a protégé of the late Joe Arvay, revered as one of Canada’s preeminent constitutional litigators. Beddoes’s firm specializes in commercial and administrative litigation and has considerable experience in appeals. The firm also has a considerable defamation law practice as well as several society and non-profit clients. One such client voices appreciation for Arden Beddoes’s “excellent oral and written advocacy and strong insight into the crux of the legal issue,” and goes on to testify, “My organization is legally focused and most of our team is lawyers, so we have the ability to understand when external counsel ‘gets it’ or not. Arden always ‘gets it.’ I would be confident giving any legal work to Beddoes Litigation save for areas that the firm explicitly does not practice in.” Beddoes represented Animal Justice in a judicial review of the Ontario Minister of Natural Resources' decision to allow an unlawful coyote bounty hunting contest to proceed without the proper authorizations and was therefore unlawful. The case was heard in Divisional Court. Beddoes is also lead counsel for the plaintiff in an ongoing proceeding in which the plaintiff seeks $24 million against the Province of British Columbia for alleged misfeasance in public office. This case recently involved an important appeal before a five-judge panel at the BC Court of Appeal. That was heard in October 2022, and the decision is still under reserve. The case will proceed to a 60-day trial starting in April 2023.
