About the author

• Author: John S. Tyhurst
• Pages: 558-558

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Tyhurst is currently a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa

Faculty of Law, Common Law Section (English), where he teaches com-

petition law and supervises directed research. He practiced civil litiga-

tion, including competition law, at the Department of Justice in Ottawa

for over thirty-two years. Born in Montreal and raised in Vancouver, he

completed his BA in economics at the University of British Columbia,

his LLB at the University of Toronto, and his LLM at McGill University

as a recipient of a Du-Rinfret Scholarship. He articled in Vancouver

and then moved to Ottawa to practice with a consumer organization

that intervened before various regulatory tribunals, including the CRTC

and CITT. He participated in the process leading to amendments to Can-

adian competition legislation in 1986. He then joined the Department

of Justice, providing advice and litigation support to the Competition

Bureau at the Departmental Legal Services Unit, where he practiced for

ten years. He prosecuted criminal price f‌ixing and bid-rigging cases, and

appeared before the Competition Tribunal in civil merger, abuse of dom-

inance, and vertical restraints cases. He moved to the Civil Litigation

Section in 1997 to work on the f‌irst NAFTA Chapter 11 investor- state

proceeding, and thereafter litigated trade, telecommunications, judicial

review, and Indigenous law matters. As a member of Department of Jus-

tice’s Supreme Court Practice Group, he appeared before the Supreme

Court in competition law, tort, and Indigenous law cases. He appeared

before other appellate courts, including the Federal and Ontario courts

of appeal and conducted civil trials, arbitrations, and interventions as

counsel for the Attorney General of Canada. In 2020 he was awarded

the J Edward (Ted) Thompson, QC award for excellence in trial advocacy.