Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Using the courts strategically to advance your Nation’s Rights
Our team of experienced litigators advance our clients’ interests in courts across the country. We prove and protect your rights through strategic litigation, including Aboriginal rights and title cases, Treaty infringement litigation, judicial reviews, and interventions in important cases.
Consultation, Accommodation and Regulatory Review
Making the Crown comply with the duty to consult and accommodate
We help our clients advance their right to free, prior and informed consent when consulting with the Crown. This includes helping Indigenous communities develop their own consultation processes, negotiate alternatives to the duty to consult framework, respond to referrals in their traditional territories, engage in environmental assessment processes, and challenge decisions made without proper consultation and accommodation.
Complex Negotiations
Securing and implementing your community’s rights through complex negotiations
Our lawyers support Indigenous communities in advancing their rights and securing economic opportunities through complex negotiations with government and industry, including impact benefit agreements, complicated commercial agreements and modern treaties. We focus on pushing the envelope and ensuring that government and industry respond to what our clients want to achieve.
Economic Development and Governance
Helping build strong, sustainable communities
JFK Law works alongside Indigenous communities to advance self-government and build a solid foundation for economic development.
From our Blog
Supreme Court of Canada Confirms Crown-Indigenous Contracts can Engage the Honour of the Crown: Quebec (Attorney General) v. Pekuakamiulnuatsh Takuhikan, 2024 SCC 39
November 28, 2024 | Commentary, Court ReviewOn November 27, 2024, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC” or “Court”) released a decision regarding on-reserve policing (“the Decision”) that is likely to have important consequences for Indigenous nations negotiating contracts with the Crown across a wide array of service areas, and/or those looking to challenge Crown conduct relating to such agreements in court.
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JFK Law Welcomes Verukah Poirier and Whitney Morrison
November 22, 2024 | UncategorizedJFK is excited to welcome Verukah Poirier and Whitney Morrison as new members of our team at the Vancouver office. Verukah returns to JFK after completing her judicial clerkship at the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver. She now joins our Dispute Resolution and Nation Building Practice Groups. Verukah previously served as a Youth in Care
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Tim Dickson selected to be in Lexpert Special Edition: Litigation 2024
November 21, 2024 | JFK NewsCongratulations to Tim Dickson on being selected as a Leading Lawyer in Litigation by Lexpert Special Edition 2024! Learn more about Tim and his practice here and on his Lexpert profile here. See the Lexpert Special Edition: Litigation 2024 here.
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West Jet Class Action
This is the landing point for a class action that has been filed by Mandalena Lewis against WestJet Airlines Ltd. (“WestJet”).