Jason Gratl
Jason Gratl

Biography

Jason Gratl has appeared at all levels of Court, from traffic Court to the Supreme Court of Canada, where he was counsel on Vancouver Sun v. O.N.E. and Charkaoui v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.

Among his accomplishments, Jason assisted Robert Latimer in obtaining release into parole, and succeeded in preventing Shell Canada Energy from engaging in Coal Bed Methane extraction in the Sacred Headwaters (Tahltan) territory of Northern British Columbia.

Jason is a graduate of U of T Law School, where he was awarded the Torys Prize in Private International Law, the Jeffrey W. Egner Prize in Labour Law, and the Ting Sum Tang Prize in International Law and Finance. In 2009, the Canadian Association of Journalists presented Jason with the President's Award for his work in defence of free expression.

Before law school, Jason obtained an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Waterloo. In 2005, Jason was appointed as Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches a seminar in Public Law.

Jason served as President of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Assocation from 2005 to 2008, and currently sits on the BCCLA Board of Directors. In 2007, he joined the Board of Directors of Pivot Legal Society.