Trevor Shaw is the Director of Criminal Appeals and Special Prosecutions, BC Prosecution Service, British Columbia Ministry of Attorney General. He is a graduate of Queen’s University (Kingston) and the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas. He was a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada before becoming a prosecutor in 1995 with Crown Law Office-Criminal in Toronto. He moved to British Columbia in 2006. In 2011, he worked as a consultant for the Office of Legal Affairs, at INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, France. His practice has involved economic crime, constitutional litigation, and cases with international and comparative law components such as extradition, mutual legal assistance and extraterritoriality. He has appeared as counsel in ten cases before the Supreme Court of Canada and his article “The Law on the Use of Police Dogs in Canada” was cited in another. With the Justice Education Society, he works on a regular basis with judges, prosecutors and police in Central America to improve their criminal justice systems. For that work, he was awarded the 2021 Humanitarian Award by the Canadian Heads of Prosecutions Committee.