Jonathan Bourchier

Jon has significant experience in a broad range of areas including, for example, secured lending enforcement and restructuring, oil and gas litigation, construction litigation, foreclosures and collections, employment issues, shareholder oppression actions, insurance coverage claims and representing individual litigants in debt, estate and damage claims. Jon represents leading companies throughout Western Canada at all levels of the dispute process, including in Chambers and through private mediations and arbitrations. His focus is on reaching successful resolutions to his clients’ issues efficiently and with creative problem solving.

 

Jon acts for leading companies on issues related to service and supply contracts; allegations of negligence and faulty workmanship; royalty, net profit interest, farmout and pooling agreements; environmental contamination; crop loss claims; joint venture and joint operating agreements; seismic data; distribution and licensing agreements; mortgages (commercial and residential); commercial leases; shareholder rights; property taxes; and fraud, conspiracy and breach of fiduciary duty claims.

 

Jon has extensive knowledge of the Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act and related matters and is often retained due to his practical understanding of the development of real property projects and related issues.

 

Jon actively volunteers his time in the community, and in 2013 he helped establish and organize the King’s Bench Amicus Project (then the Queen’s Bench Amicus Project), a pro bono project that helps unrepresented and disadvantaged litigants in the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta.

 

Year joined firm: 2015

 

 

 

 

Academic qualifications: LLB with Distinction, University of Alberta, 2008

 

Bar Admissions: Alberta Bar, 2009

• Acted for a major Canadian financial institution in Royal Bank of Canada v Simmer, 2026 ABKB 250, securing summary judgment on defaulted credit facilities and a significant costs and interest award, despite a heavily contested proceeding involving a counterclaim and lengthy litigation history
  
  
• Acted as appellate counsel for the appellant in Crawford v Marsh, 2024 ABCA 121, where the Alberta Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and restored an action dismissed for long delay, providing important guidance on what constitutes a “significant advance” under Rule 4.33 of the Alberta Rules of Court
  
  
• Represented the appellant in Round Hill Consulting Ltd v Parkview Consulting Ltd, 2025 ABCA 195, a corporate dispute involving allegations of fiduciary breach, oppression and counterclaims for accounting, resulting in the Court of Appeal allowing the appeal and clarifying the functional analysis for delay and counterclaims proceeding in tandem
  
  
• Appeared for the respondents/cross-appellants in Kleiman v Innes, 2026 ABCA 112, a high-stakes estate and fiduciary litigation involving alleged misappropriation of more than $1.7 million and contested attachment orders under the Civil Enforcement Act, where both the appeal and cross-appeal were dismissed
  
  
• Acted as appellate counsel for the appellant in Calgary Co-operative Association Limited v Federated Co-operatives Limited, 2025 ABCA 142, a landmark co-operative law and oppression case involving the implementation of a new loyalty program and the distribution of patronage, including extensive analysis of reasonable expectations, business judgment and equitable treatment of members
  
  
• Acted for landowners and affiliated entities in The Micro Collective Inc v Hutterian Brethren Church of Tschetter, 2025 ABKB 618, successfully obtaining discharge of builders’ liens where the Court held the liens had ceased to exist due to late entry into the Land Titles pending registration queue, providing important guidance on lien deadlines, the Torrens system and the limits of judicial discretion under the Builders’ Lien Act and Land Titles Act