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 decides issues of limitation periods and declaratory relief in Aboriginal and treaty rights cases
April 12, 2024 | UncategorizedToday the Supreme Court of Canada released its unanimous decision in Shot Both Sides v. Canada, 2024 SCC 12, which deals with how limitation periods apply to Aboriginal rights and treaty claims, and the function and scope of declaratory relief. The court made several important pronouncements about the nature of treaty rights and the function of declaratory
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Supreme Court of Canada Upholds the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation’s Election Residency Requirement in Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation
March 28, 2024 | UncategorizedThis is Part 1 of JFK Law’s 3-part in-depth blog series on the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation. We look forward to releasing Part 2 and 3 in the coming weeks. Overview Today, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its ruling in Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation,
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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”).