Image Credit: Brad Smith

By James Peters

Queen's Counsel

Kamloops lawyer chosen for Queen’s counsel

Dec 18, 2019 | 6:31 AM

KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops lawyer is one of 26 across the province to be given the prestigious Queen’s counsel designation.

Brad Smith was called to the bar in 2000 and spent more than a decade as a prosecutor with the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.

Smith then began his own private defence practice and has offices in Kamloops and Vancouver.

One-hundred sixty-three B.C. lawyers were nominated for the Q.C. designation this year.

Out of the approximately 12,700 practicing members of the bar in the province, only 499 have the Q.C. designation.

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