Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2025 
Commercial litigation comprises the majority of John Shewfelt’s practice. Over the years he has also accumulated a range of other experience, including corporate and shareholder disputes, and cases involving defamation, nuisance, childhood sexual abuse, fraudulently concealed assets, real estate, and class actions. John also has experience with serious personal injury claims and with professional malpractice claims involving lawyers, doctors, investment advisors, and other professionals. John holds a graduate law degree in securities law and he has represented clients in many securities-related matters in the courts and before regulatory tribunals.
John has spent hundreds of days in trial and on appeals in all of the British Columbia courts, the Yukon Supreme Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. He has represented clients before a number of regulatory tribunals, including the Law Society of British Columbia, the British Columbia Securities Commission, the Agricultural Land Commission, and others. He is regularly involved in alternative dispute resolution, including commercial arbitration and formal mediation. He represents both plaintiffs and defendants in roughly equal proportions.
John periodically taught for many years as an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law.
