Gavin Giles

Senior Litigation Partner and Director @Mcinnes Cooper

Halifax, NS, CA

Gavin Giles is acknowledged by peers as \'a very tenacious litigator\'​ with a very good practice. If I needed a lawyer and had to go outside my firm, he’s whose door I’d be knocking on.\"​ - Benchmark Litigation, February, 2013. Gavin is a leading Atlantic Canadian litigation lawyer with broad trial and appellate experience and with resolution by alternative to trial means of business, commercial, construction, products liability and insurance. He has been recognized for some years and in a variety of dispute resolution disciplines by both Best Lawyers (Canada) and LexPert\'s Leading Lawyers, and by Benchmark Litigation as noted above. Gavin has appeared before the Federal Court of Canada, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Provincial and Family Courts, and the Court of Appeal and Superior Courts of a number of other Provinces and Territories. He has tried matters before both juries and judges alone. The matters in which he has been involved have been reported more than a hundred times.Gavin additionally provides private mediation and arbitrations services which are highly confidential, which are non-structure specific and in which the parties are urged and given the freedom to craft the scope of the process in which they are intended to be engaged.

Saint Mary's University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Dalhousie University

LL.B.