Kevin Gibson

Partner

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Office
Halifax
Tel: 902.444.8539
Fax: 902.425.6350

Assistant
Cindy Hartson
Languages
English

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Profile

Kevin is a Partner in our Halifax office and a member of the firm’s Business Dispute Resolution Group. His practice is concentrated in the litigation of construction disputes, including those related to offshore oil and gas installations, as well as complex commercial, administrative, and tort matters. He has appeared frequently as counsel in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, and before arbitration panels in significant construction claims. Kevin is also frequently called upon to provide advice in the negotiation, drafting, and interpretation of procurement and construction agreements for owners, architects, engineers and contractors, and to litigate the enforceability of clauses limiting or excluding liability. Kevin has also published articles in the areas of international trade and professional liability, and is a regular presenter in industry seminars on the litigation of construction disputes, and on the law of tendering and construction contracts.

Kevin is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society, and the Ecclesiastical Law Society, England. He is currently Secretary and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors of the University of King’s College, where he studied Classics as an undergraduate. He is also a lecturer in Construction Law in the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, where he previously lectured in Civil Trial Practice for several years, and warden of the historic St George’s Round Church in Halifax.

Education

LL.B., Queen’s University
M.A., Oxford University

Bar Admissions

Nova Scotia (2001)