Michael Ng

Telephone: 604.331.1155
michael@ngariss.com 

Michael is the Director of Written Advocacy at the firm. His practice focuses on designing arguments, supervising and conducting research, and crafting documents for litigation (e.g., submissions for courts, tribunals and appellate bodies), and for professional regulation (e.g., legal opinions, written materials and bylaws).

Michael provides consulting services to boutique law firms in Vancouver, Toronto and the Bahamas.

Michael was called to the bar in BC in 1994, and has a background in complex commercial litigation. Michael has provided research, opinions, drafting and case design for a wide array of cases and issues before tribunals, arbitrators, trial courts and appellate courts. His written advocacy practice focuses on civil litigation, professional regulation and professional discipline.

Michael's work is respected for its clarity, concision and depth.

Depth of knowledge: Michael has worked on an array of cases and legal issues, including the following sampling:

  • Administrative tribunals (standards of review, bias, natural justice, intervenors, professional regulation, professional discipline, competence, publication and anonymity)
  • Company and Securities (shareholders' remedies, directors' liabilities, brokerage regulations, public disclosure obligations, penalties)
  • Constitutional and Human Rights (Charter rights and freedoms, sections 1, 2, 7, 15, 35 and remedies, human rights discrimination and remedies, intervenors)
  • Construction (pure economic loss, professional negligence, condominium law, construction tenders)
  • Contracts (formation, breach, variation, remedies)
  • Environmental (environmental assessment, ministerial discretion, water reserve, water licenses)
  • Equity (injunctions, fiduciaries, trusts, confidentiality, subrogation, tracing, specific performance)
  • Family law (support and property division)
  • Insurance (subrogation, good faith, duty to defend, coverage exclusion)
  • Land and Realty (commercial leases, easements, First Nations, realtor's negligence, occupier's liability)
  • Labour and Employment (collective agreements, union and management obligations, union executive and member obligations, dismissal, discipline, pensions, trusts)
  • Practice (territorial competence and convenient forum, court rules, discovery, evidence, costs, appeal process and factums)
  • Restitution (unjust enrichment, quantum meruit, payments under mistake, or under invalid contracts)
  • Torts (nuisance, conspiracy, fraud, misrepresentation, pure economic loss, abuse of public office, professional negligence)
  • Trademarks (commercial use, confusion, internet domain names)
Publications: Michael is the author of Fiduciary Duties: Duties of Loyalty and Faithfulness, published by Canada Law Book.
Educational background: LL.M. (Queen's University, 1995); LL.B. (UBC, 1993); B.Com. [Urban Land Economics] (UBC, 1990)

Academic Awards: Queen's University Fellowship (1994); Law Foundation Scholarship (1991); Russell & DuMoulin Scholarship (1991); Thomas Francis Hurley Prize (Criminal Law, 1991); Rank of 4th out of 234 (First Year Law, 1991); Dean's Honour Roll (Commerce, 1987, 1988, 1990); Annie B. Jamieson Scholarship (Commerce); Porte Realty Scholarship (Commerce)

Personal interests: Michael's interests include yoga, computers, writing, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His travel destinations have included England, France, Italy, Germany, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya.