David Mossop, QC is senior counsel at the Community Legal Assistance Society, an umbrella legal organization assisting disadvantaged clients throughout the province. Since his call to the Bar in 1971, he has practised in the areas of poverty, administrative law, human rights and constitutional law. He has represented public interest litigants in numerous tribunals and courts up to the Supreme Court of Canada. Mossop works with many low income groups, including the Federated Anti-Poverty Groups of BC and the Front Line Advocacy Workers. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1999.

First elected a Bencher for 2008, Mossop is currently Chair of the Access to Legal Services Advisory Committee and a member of the Ethics Committee and Delivery of Legal Services Task Force. He was formerly Vice-Chair of the Access to Justice Committee and Access to Legal Services Advisory Committee and a member of the Task Force on Unbundling Legal Services.

Mossop has served as a former member of the Canadian Bar Association’s Provincial Council and National Legislative Review Committee. He has chaired the CBA’s Administrative Law Section and its Public Legal Education and Information Committee. He has presented at many continuing legal education programs, has been an Adjunct Professor at UBC law school, and has served as a member of the BC Marketing Board and the UBC Sexual Harassment Tribunal.

He was awarded the Social Justice Award in 1990, the Special Award of the Federated Anti Poverty Groups of BC in 1996, and the Special Recognition Award of the Regional Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of BC in 1998.