VANCOUVER FAMILY LAWYER - KATHLEEN H. WALKER
Kathleen H. Walker, Vancouver family lawyer is a former family and child counsellor who counselled parents through Simon Fraser University's Psychology Department program "Information Children". She then worked with disturbed children and their families in School District 43 in Coquitlam. In the years just before she commenced her law studies she was a Psychologist Assistant with the Province of British Columbia in New Westminster assisting multi-handicapped adults. While working on her postgraduate studies in educational psychology Ms. Walker successfully completed a practicum as a Family Court Counsellor/Mediator with the Attorney General of British Columbia.
Ms. Kathleen Walker graduated from the University of British Columbia Law School in May 1991 having succeeded in that program as a divorced parent supporting and caring for two young children. While attending Law School she was an editor of the Canadian Journal of Family Law.
Ms. Kathleen Walker articled with and worked as a criminal prosecutor with the Federal Government. The concept of 'articulable cause' raised by her in her first Supreme Court trial of a trafficking charge, R. v. Yet Wai Daniel Lee, has been cited many times with approval. It has been cited by the Court of Appeal of Alberta, and subsequently, the British Columbia Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Newfoundland in defining the Charter concept of arbitrary detention.
In May 1994 Ms. Walker made the transition to the field of Vancouver family law with the Law Firm of Connell Lightbody. She was the head of the Vancouver family law department litigating complex, multi-faceted family law cases before she left to start her own firm. Anderson v. Sullivan is one of the Vancouver family law cases Ms. Walker successfully argued at the British Columbia Court of Appeal. That case dealt with an interjurisdictional child custody dispute. She also successfully appealed a decision in Grierson v. Watters with regards to parental choice of treating physicians.
In July 1998, Ms. Walker formed her own firm, Kathleen H. Walker Law Corporation with a focus on using her background in family counselling, together with the courtroom skills honed as a federal prosecutor, to advance her clients' cases. In January 2004 Ms. Walker successfully settled an important trust administration negligence case against the British Columbia Provincial government. Her client received a high scale of costs against the government at the Supreme Court level and the highest scale of costs at the Court of Appeal level as part of the settlement. The trial of that case was reported and Vancouver family lawyer, Ms. Walker, was profiled in the March 28, 2003 national law newspaper, the Lawyers Weekly.
