FH & P Lawyers
Penticton

About FH & P Lawyers Penticton

FH&P Lawyers LLP can trace its ancestry back in time to before Kelowna was incorporated as a city in 1905. In 1903 John Ford Burne, became the first Solicitor in Kelowna. Burne was born in England and came to Canada in order to begin practicing law.

In 1905, when Kelowna was first incorporated as a municipality, Burne was the first Police Magistrate for the City of Kelowna. Soon after, Burne became the first judge of the Small Debts Court of Kelowna.

Burne decided to team up with a young lawyer named E. C. Weddell, and they became Burne & Weddell in 1917. Burne stopped practicing law and became a Stipendiary Magistrate, while Weddell decided to carry on the legal practice and eventually met Jim Horn.

This new partnership resulted in a name change to Weddell Horn. In the early nineteen thirties, Don Fillmore started a legal practice in Kelowna.His firm...