Simon Kent is the founder and Senior Partner of Kent Employment Law. His focus is on employment law issues, including wrongful dismissals and human rights claims. He also advises his clients on general corporate and commercial litigation matters related to employment law, such as shareholder or partnership disputes, and oppression actions brought by dismissed employees who are also company shareholders. Simon has appeared as counsel at numerous hearings, trials and appeals before the British Columbia Provincial Court, Supreme Court, and Court of Appeal. His legal experience also includes an application to the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal.

Some examples of recent cases that Simon has been involved in are:

• Representing an international company being sued for breach of contract (settled)
• Representing senior, long-term executives in negotiating severance packages
• Representing a unionized employee with a human rights complaint (settled)
• Representing a 30-year employee in an appeal of the trial judge’s decision not to award him pension monies during his notice (severance) period

Simon is a frequent presenter at the annual Continuing Legal Education Employment Law Conference held in Vancouver. The many articles he has written and presented there can be found here.

Simon’s volunteer contributions both within and outside the legal field are vast and wide-ranging and include holding various executive positions on the Board of the Employment Law Subsection of the Canadian Bar Association (BC Branch) and providing pro bono legal advice through the Western Canada Society to Access Justice. He also serves as member of a number of Research Ethics Boards in Vancouver, including that at the BC Cancer Agency, and is a sessional lecturer in the paralegal program at Capilano University.

On a personal note, Simon is married and a father to three wonderful daughters. His interests include kiteboarding, skiing, hiking, and squash.