Len Marchand

Len Marchand Judge Len Marchand, BC Court of Appeal courts.gov.bc.ca

Chief Justice Leonard Marchand of the BC Court of Appeal helped review the section about abuse in Residential Schools in Legal Help for British Columbians for 2012, when he was still a practicing lawyer. In 2024, he was sworn in as the Chief Justice of British Columbia. He is a member of the Okanagan Indian Band and was a partner at Fulton & Company LLP in Kamloops, BC before being sworn in as a judge of the Provincial Court in September 2013. He represented residential school survivors from 1999 until being appointed to the Bench, and was a member of the Independent Assessment Process (IAP) Working Group that negotiated the final terms of the IAP and served on the IAP Oversight Committee from 2007 to 2010. As a lawyer, he practiced exclusively in the area of residential school claims.