JP Boyd is a litigator, arbitrator, mediator and parenting coordinator in private practice in Vancouver. John-Paul serves on the editorial board of the Continuing Legal Education Society's Family Practice Manual and the Provincial Court's Family Law Rules Committee, and is a fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He served on the Attorney General's Family Law Act Advisory Group and its predecessor, the Family Relations Act Review Advisory Committee. He is the author of the public legal education website www.bcfamilylawresource.com and its syndicated companion blog.
John-Paul is a prolific writer and frequent speaker on family law topics, and has presented to the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Bar Association British Columbia, the Pacific Business & Law Institute, the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia, the Law Society's legal training course, the Continuing Legal Education Society, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and the National Judicial Institute. His written work has also appeared in The Lawyers Weekly, BarTalk, The Family Way, Canadian Family Law Matters, The Advocate and the UBC Law Review. He is the author of "Obtaining Reliable and Repeatable SSAG Calculations," published by the Department of Justice.
John-Paul has practiced family law since being called to the bar; he took his training as a mediator in 2005 and his training as an arbitrator in 2011. He has particular interests in legislation and law reform, the conflicts of laws and jurisdictional issues generally, heuristics and decision-making processes, alternatives to litigation, children's involvement in the justice system and the preparation of views of the child reports, and the psychology of separation and divorce. He presently serves as a director of the BC Parenting Coordinators Roster Society and the BC Hear the Child Society.
John-Paul is listed by the peer-reviewed Best Lawyers and is a recipient of the CBA's National Pro Bono Service Award, the UBC Law Alumni Association's Outstanding Young Alumnus Award and the CBABC's Harry Rankin, QC Pro Bono Award.
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