Daniel J. Reid

Daniel is Associate Counsel with Harper Grey and is a member of our Defamation, Privacy & Media Law and Insurance Law Groups.

Daniel maintains a broad defamation, privacy and insurance practice, with particular experience in online defamation, breach of privacy, and professional negligence cases.

In his defamation and privacy practice, Daniel has successfully obtained orders compelling websites to turn over the identity of anonymous commentators, injunctions restraining publication and an order to produce computers for forensic analysis. He is cited by the Supreme Court of Canada (in conjunction with Mr. Baynham, KC) in the leading case concerning liability attached to “hyperlinks”. Daniel is a sought after speaker on legal/technological issues, including Facebook and Twitter, and has appeared on the Bill Good Show on local and national news programs, including CTV National News, CBC National News, and CKNW radio.

Daniel has also published numerous legal articles on the sharing-economy and the impact of “gig workers” on the insurance industry.

Daniel grew up in Calgary and attended Carleton University in Ottawa to pursue a journalism degree. After working in radio and television, he moved to Vancouver to attend law school in 2005. He articled with Harper Grey and following his call to the Bar of British Columbia in 2009, he joined the firm as an Associate.