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From landmark court decisions to emerging legal and policy developments, on this page we share insights into the issues shaping Indigenous law, public law, as well as business and personal law in Canada. Our lawyers offer clear, thoughtful updates to help you make sense of what’s changing, and understand why it matters for your work, your community or your organization.
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Ratcliff gets the Supreme Court to set aside the province’s timber allocation decision for failure to consult Ehattesaht First Nation
Ratcliff successfully applied on behalf of Ehattesaht First Nation to set aside the Ministry of Forests’ decision to return over 1 million cubic meters of surplus timber that was available for reallocation to the control of Western Forest Products Inc.
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Oral hearings quietly vanish from Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline review
Ratcliff lawyer Greg McDade speaks out on behalf of his client, the City of Burnaby, on the issue of the National Energy Board cutting all cross-examination from the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline review process.
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Ratcliff lawyers get injunction to stop opening of herring fishery on west coast of Vancouver Island
Ratcliff lawyers successfully applied on behalf of five Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations for an injunction blocking the opening this year of a herring fishery on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
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Ratcliff represents Coldwater Indian Band bring judicial review against Kinder Morgan for “illegally operating pipeline”
Ratcliff on behalf of the Coldwater Indian Band brought a judicial review against Kinder Morgan’s plan to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline on Coldwater’s reserve.