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
Ontario Court of Appeal Confirms: Trial Judges Required to Consider Evidence of Aboriginal Title in All Parts of the Claim Area
October 4, 2023 | UncategorizedOverview On Wednesday August 30, 2023, the Ontario Court of Appeal became the first appellate court in Canada to rule on the issue of Aboriginal title to submerged lands. Two important and novel principles emerge from this decision: trial judges are required to consider Aboriginal title not just to the whole claim area articulated by
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BC Supreme Court on Mineral Exploration: One Step Forward Two Steps Back
October 3, 2023 | UncategorizedOn September 26, the British Columbia Supreme Court released its long awaited decision in Gitxaala v. British Columbia (Chief Gold Commissioner) 2023 BCSC 1680. This decision deals with the legality of the mineral tenure system in BC, which allows anyone to stake a claim to minerals without consulting Indigenous Nations within whose territory the minerals
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JFK Law Vancouver has Moved!
October 1, 2023 | UncategorizedWe are pretty excited to announce that our Vancouver office has moved to a new location. As of October 1, 2023 our Vancouver office is located at: Suite 260, 200 Granville Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1S4 Please update your records accordingly. Thank you
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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”).