Section 3 Project Staff Qualifications

Section 3 Project Staff Qualifications

Morley McKeachie

Morley has nearly 40 years as a lawyer and mediator. He has successfully mediated hundreds of disputes, negotiated many settlements, and has experience in a broad range of areas of law. He was a member of the bar and the Law Society of B.C. for 35 years, from 1979 to 2014, in private law practice, with a focus on civil litigation. In 1995 he qualified as a mediator, as an adjunct to his law practice, and continues his dispute resolution practice currently. When active as a lawyer, he appeared on numerous occasions in the Supreme Court of British Columbia and the B.C. Court of Appeal, presented on the subject of mediation to the Trial Lawyers Association of B.C., and instructed articling students at the Professional Legal Training Course.

Raymond Young, Q.C.

Ray, MCIP RPP, has argued over 70 municipal and land-use cases before the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal in British Columbia, and has also argued at the Supreme Court of Canada. Ray is also a Registered Professional Planner, a member of PIBC and CIP. He taught Municipal Law and Land Use Law in the Faculty of Law UBC for over 20 years, and also taught Planning Law 506 at the School of Community and Regional Planning UBC over the same 20 years. He has been invited as visiting Professor in land-use law on numerous occasions at the University of Florida (Gainesville), and similarly at Georgia State University (Atlanta). He was a Canada-US Fulbright Scholar in 1999 and spent that time in Atlanta some of it lecturing in the combined Georgia Tech/Georgia State Univ. Joint Planning and JD program. Ray was a founder of the firm Young Anderson where he actively practiced land-use law and municipal law for almost 30 years. He now practises as a sole practitioner under the name "Local Government and Planning Law Chambers". In 2015 Ray was invited to present a session on regional growth management at the US National Infrastructure Conference in Portland Oregon, and in 2016 was asked to present the same session at the International Municipal Lawyers Conference in San Diego.