Peter Jensen

Peter Jensen
B.A. (UBC '62), LL.B. (UBC '65)

• Criminal Law
• Injury Claims
  

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.

Jeremy Jensen

• Criminal Law
• Injury Claims

Born in Kamloops, B.C, Jeremy first studied at the University of Victoria where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Slavonic Studies. He continued his studies overseas, spending a year in St. Petersburg, Russia attending the St.Petersburg State University doing graduate studies. In 2000, he moved to Christchurch, New Zealand where he obtained his Law degree and subsequently a Masters of Law degree from the University of Canterbury. Upon graduation, he practiced law in New Zealand for two years focusing mainly on Indigenous (Maori) rights. His work in New Zealand consisted of working as in-house counsel for Ngai Tahu Corporation – one of the largest commercial enterprises in New Zealand. His involvement was primarily in Treaty issues and delivering submissions to the Parliamentary Constitutional Arrangements Committee and advising on issues of Indigenous incarceration rates to the United Nations Special Rapporteur.

Jeremy returned to Canada with his wife and two children in 2006 and was called to the B.C Bar in 2007. He practices law with his father, Peter Jensen, focusing on criminal defence work.

Jeremy is passionate about the outdoors – especially mountaineering and has climbed various mountains in the European Alps, Himalayas, New Zealand Alps, Russia (Siberia) and the Canadian Rockies.