David Thomas

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David Thomas is a lawyer and mediator in British Columbia. From 2014 to 2021, he was the chairperson of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in Ottawa. In addition to private business interests, Thomas is a part-time vice-chair of a professional discipline tribunal and a mediator for the BC Human Rights Tribunal.

He graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) serving as the president of the Legal and Literary Society (student council) in his final year. Thomas worked for Bull, Housser & Tupper (now Norton Rose Fulbright Vancouver) in the firm’s international practice, which had offices in Hong Kong, Taipei and Shanghai. Shortly after becoming a partner in 1994, Thomas started his own law firm specializing in immigration.

Thomas has appeared before Parliament and lectured in his field to the Canadian Bar Association, the BC Society for Continuing Legal Education and to the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants (now CICC). Thomas was appointed as a part-time member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in 2013.