Amanda James
Email: ajames@apnalaw.ca
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A.A. v H.C, 2021 BCSC 1414
Bamford v Mulyati, 2017 BCSC 945
B.L.S. v. D.J.S., 2019 BCSC 846
B.L.S. v D.J.S, 2021 BCSC 1961
B.L.S. v D.J.S, 2021 BCSC 1311
Brazinski v. Brazinski, 2023 BCCA 359
C.C. v. J.P., 2022 BCSC 722
Cutts v. Goddard, 2020 BCSC 1939
C.P.M. v. J.K., 2021 BCPC 239
Este v. Esteghamat-Ardakani, 2018 BCCA 290
Gregg v. Ralen, 2018 BCSC 171
Green v John M. Richter Law Corp. & Others, 2018 BCSC 1449
Green v John M. Richter Law Corporation, 2018 BCSC 1840
Grynspan v. Grynspan, 2020 BCSC 1949
Henderson v. Myler, 2021 BCSC 354
Jones v. Davidson, 2022 BCCA 31
Kerfoot v. Richter 2018 BCCA 238
K.P.B. v. K.E. 2018 BCSC 885
Lennox v. Lennox, 2018 BCCA 412
Lennox v. Lennox, 2018 BCSC 374
Lynch v. Lynch, 2023 BCSC 1024
Morrell v Lippucci, 2022 BCSC 977
MFSJ862 v. FFSJ862, 2023 BCSC 273
MFSJ862 v. FFSJ862, 2023 BCSC 1088
Mendres v. Ramsay, 2023 BCCA 137
Parton v. Parton, 2018 BCCA 273
Pavlovich v. Danilovic, 2019 BCSC 153
Pavlovich v. Danilovic, 2020 BCCA 239
Pomozon v. Beausoleil, 2020 BCSC 2084
Pomozon v Beausoleil, 2021 BCSC 1290
Rosa Donna Este v. Mina Esteghamat-Ardakani also known as Mina Estegahamat-Ardakani, et al., 2019 CanLII 18830 (SCC)
Sandhu v. Sidhu 2019 BCCA 465
Sahmani v. Pasbakhsh, 2023 BCSC 1565
Sperring v. Shutiak, 2023 BCCA 64
Simpson v Simpson Estate, 2021 BCSC 1486
Simpson v. Zaste, 2022 BCCA 208
Simpons v. Zaste, 2022 BCCA 303
S.R.W. v R.C.D.A.D, 2021 BCSC 1158
Taherkhani v. Este, 2020 BCSC 101
White v. Schultz, 2022 BCCA 297
Zhang v. Davies, 2021 BCCA 196
Zhao v. Zhou, 2019 BCCA 12
Amanda M. James maintains a general civil litigation practice with a focus on family, estate, personal injury and general civil disputes.
She has experience dealing with a variety of civil disputes and has appeared as counsel in every level of court in British Columbia representing and advising clients on a range of family, estate, injury claims and general civil disputes.
She obtained her law degree from Thompson Rivers University as a member of the inaugural class. While at TRU, she represented TRU at the Wilson Moot, a national advocacy competition involving the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and served as the class representative for the Society of Law Students. She joined Apna Law LLP in 2022. Prior to doing so, she practiced at a firm specializing in complex family, estate and injury claims where she also completed a mixed articling term, splitting her time between a biotech firm in Vancouver – focusing on corporate governance and securities – and a small personal injury firm. She obtained her B.A from the University of British Columbia in 2010.
Amanda also currently serves as the financial adviser to Alpha Delta Pi Sorority and spends her free time on the mountain in fresh powder or on the softball diamond.
*Practicing through a Professional Law Corporation
Publications
Bluebook 20th ed. Amanda James, The Trouble with Transition: Pre-FLA Separation Agreements in a Post-FLA World, 78 Advocate (Vancouver) 225 (2020).
Amanda James, The First Bite Is No Longer Free: New Legislation Proposes Changes to a Dog Owner's Liability, 75 Advocate (Vancouver) 51, 54 (2017)
No sex, no marriage, rules BC judge in rare annulment because husband couldn’t maintain an erection, September 27, 2020 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/annulment-impotence-erection-marriage-1.5737738