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
Justice vs “Trust Us” – Ontario (Attorney General) v Restoule
July 26, 2024 | UncategorizedOn July 26, 2024, the Supreme Court of Canada (“the Court“) released a unanimous decision on the interpretation of Robinson-Superior Treaty and Robinson-Huron Treaty (“Robinson Treaties”) in Ontario (Attorney General) v. Restoule, 2024 SCC 27. This matter was heard on November 7-8, 2023, but is one that engages a matter of injustice between the Anishinaabe and Crown
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Nova Scotia cannabis decision shuts down Aboriginal and Treaty Rights defence
July 24, 2024 | UncategorizedOn June 7th, the Provincial Court of Nova Scotia issued a decision in R. v. Marshall et al, decisively shutting down an Aboriginal and Treaty rights defense in a high-profile cannabis case under the Cannabis Act and the Excise Act in the decision. The defendants, who operated cannabis dispensaries on Millbrook First Nation, argued that
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JFK Law Welcomes several new members to our support team
July 3, 2024 | UncategorizedJFK Law is pleased to introduce Susan Tito, Sumandeep Kaur, Hilary Bressette, Sajina Gnaneswaran and Ezza Ali to our team. Susan Tito joins our finance team as a Financial Support Specialist in our Victoria office. Sumandeep Kaur joins our assistant team as an Office Clerk/Administrative Assistant in our Vancouver office. She will be supporting Christine
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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”).