Mark Horne
Mark Horne is a Victoria native who graduated from Oak Bay High School in 1965 and took his first degree in English at the University of Victoria in 1970. After receiving a diploma in Secondary Education in 1972 from UVIC, he taught for three years in the Sooke School District before entering UVIC Law School on a President's Scholarship in 1975. After a decade in private practice, Mark received the first Fellowship in Equity, Trusts & Fiduciary Relationships and returned to UVIC Law School where he worked and studied with Professor Donovan Waters.
Mark has practised in Victoria since 1979, principally in the Wills, Estates, Trusts and Charities area with the firm of Horne Coupar, one of Victoria's most established law firms. There he heads the firm's Inheritance and Incapacity Planning Group comprised of three solicitors and six paralegals. The firm and Mr. Horne also provided estate administration services to the Government of British Columbia as Official Administrator for the County of Victoria and as Deputy Official Administrator for the Vancouver Island Region from 1958 to 2002. The firm has also taken a leadership role in emerging elder law issues through its Eldercare Education series.
Mark has written and taught for the Continuing Legal Education Society and Professional Legal Training Programme and presently teaches the Succession course at the University of Victoria Law School. In 1992, he was elected a fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Council and in 1994, as an academician in the International Academy of Estates and Trust Law. He is a Past President of the Victoria Estate Planning Council and a Past President of the Victoria Wills and Trusts Subsection of the Canadian Bar Association.
Both personally and through the law firm, Mark is an active supporter of the arts and local charities. He is presently a director of the Pacific Opera Foundation, Sierra Club of BC Foundation, Vice-Chairman of the Ours Forever Campaign of The Land Conservancy of British Columbia, a Member of the Advisory Board to the Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria, and an Honorary Governor of the Victoria Foundation.
