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Peter Jensen
Peter Jensen
B.A. (UBC '62), LL.B. (UBC '65)
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Following his graduation from UBC Law School in 1965,
Peter Jensen moved to Kamloops to article with the firm
of Houghton & Gray. On the day he was called to
the Bar - at the age of 25 - he was made a full partner
in the firm. In 1978, when Ken Houghton was called to
the Bench, he became the senior member in the firm,
then called Jensen, Mitchell & Company. In 1992,
he left that firm and bought a nicely finished older
home. Since that time, he has operated under the firm
name of Law Offices of Peter Jensen, in that older home,
as a single practitioner practising in Criminal Law.
Mr. Jensen has always practised as a criminal defence
lawyer, but has also been a prosecutor for the Federal
Government for charges under the Income Tax Act, Unemployment
Insurance Act and the Fisheries Act.
In 1972, Peter Jensen was appointed as a special prosecutor
by the Federal Department of Fisheries to prosecute
and develop the first law on pollution of waterways.
After doing that for two and a half years, he was asked
to draft amendments to make the pollution sections stronger
and more effective. He drafted several new sections
which were adopted, in their entirety, by the Federal
Government in 1976. That legislation made it an offence
to harm the "habitat" of fish and has been
a very effective and useful section. Those sections
remain in force to this day.
Peter Jensen has been to the Supreme Court of Canada
on both civil and criminal matters and in 1977 appeared,
along with counsel Sidney Simons, before all nine members
of the Supreme Court of Canada on an important case
involving "abuse of process".
Mr. Jensen and his wife, Jean, have lived since their
marriage in 1968, on a very large island in the North
Thompson River, surrounded by "Jensen Island Oxbow
Provincial Park". The park is a wetland and is
a protected area for many kinds of wild life.
Peter Jensen has practiced law for some 36 years. He
currently carries on a practice in the Kamloops area,
focusing on Criminal Law.
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