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
Recap of the trailblazing R v Montour and White decision
March 18, 2024 | UncategorizedPart I On November 1, 2023, the Quebec Superior Court released its decision in the groundbreaking Aboriginal and Treaty rights case of R v Montour and White (2023 QCSC 4154). As covered in depth within a previous blog post, this novel judgment received broad praise from many Indigenous peoples, allies, and advocates for its novel
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JFK Law Welcomes Carly Chunick, Maya Ollek and others
March 7, 2024 | UncategorizedJFK is pleased to introduce Carly Chunick, Destiny Orchard, Maya Ollek, Natila Kabir, Amelia Hadfield and welcoming back Brendan Schatti. Carly Chunick joined us back in October 2023 as an associate in our Victoria office. Carly joined JFK Law after a 12 year career at the BC Ombudsperson where she was an investigator, manager and
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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”).