Lyle Harris
Personal Law Corporation

Lyle has practiced almost exclusively in the areas of insurance and personal injury law for 26 years. During that time, he has conducted numerous trials for insurers (including Insurance Corporation of British Columbia) and plaintiffs.

He graduated from the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law in 1975 was called to the British Columbia Bar in 1976.

His book, Discovery Practice in British Columbia, was published in 1999 by Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia and has been updated annually since that time. It is the standard practice text in the area of discovery for lawyers in British Columbia.

He has been an ad hoc instructor with the ICBC Operations Education Department since 1985, teaching adjusters about damages in personal injury law.

Along with Robert Brun, Lyle was an instructor in the field of insurance law at Capilano College in the Paralegal Program from 1994 to 1997.

In 2000-2001, Lyle acted as compensation counsel for Thomas Sophonow in a Commission of Inquiry before Peter deC. Cory (retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada) into Mr. Sophonow's wrongful conviction for murder in Manitoba in 1982. The recommendations of the Commission included a recommendation for compensation for Mr. Sophonow of $2.66 million.