HAROLD W. VEALE, Q.C.
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Ogilvie LLP
1400 Canadian Western Bank Place
10303 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton AB T5J 3N6
Practice Areas
- Practice centered around civil litigation, some criminal law and prosecutions of federal offences
- Appeared at all levels of trial and appeal courts in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, the Yukon Territory, and, on several occasions, in the Supreme Court of Canada and the Federal Court of Canada
- Acted as counsel for Her Majesty the Queen in federal and provincial matters
- Administrative law; represented the provincial government, school divisions and individuals at administrative tribunals
Experience
- Ogilvie LLP
• Counsel, 1985 - Present - Barrister and Solicitor since graduation in 1962 and being called to the Bar in 1963
Education
- Bachelor of Laws
• University of Alberta, 1962 - Bachelor of Arts
• University of Alberta, 1961
Professional Activities and Memberships
- Appointed Queen's Counsel, 1976
- Law Society of Alberta, 1963
- Law Society of the Northwest Territories, 1967
- Law Society of the Yukon Territory, 1971
- Law Society of Nunavut, 1999
- Edmonton Bar Association
- Canadian Bar Association
- American Trial Lawyers Association
- Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association
- Lectured on behalf of the Legal Education Society, Canadian Bar Association Program, Law Students Bar Admission Course, guest lecturer at the University of Alberta
- Instructor, Legal Education Society Seminar on Trial Advocacy
Community Activities and Memberships
- Past Alternate Chairman, Provincial Mental Health Review Panels
- Member and Acting Chairman, Alberta Review Board
- Coach & Assistant Coach, Community League boys' hockey & soccer teams
- Founding Member, Edmonton Medical Legal Society
- Past Member, John Howard Society
- Past Vice-President, Horseman's Benevolent & Protective Association, Alberta Branch
- Past Director, Royal Glenora Club
- Past federal campaign manager
- Past President, Edmonton Young Progressive Conservatives
- Past President, Strathcona West Provincial Constituency
- Member & executive of several provincial and federal constituencies
- Past National Finance Chairman, federal leadership campaign
- Past Coordinator of Constituency Finance for Alberta
- Past Northern Alberta Federal Finance Chairman
- Past Chairman, Legal Subcommittee, Federal Progressive Conservatives
