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Governmental action regularly affects the interests of individuals and businesses through legislation, policy and the operation of a wide array of administrative tribunals. A clear understanding of how governments operate is often critical to succeeding in today’s world. Through its extensive and well-established Administrative and Constitutional Law Practice Group, Lawson Lundell has developed the experience and expertise to assist our clients in all aspects of their dealings with government and with other public agencies.
The members of our Administrative and Constitutional Law Group provide a full range of services to clients. Our lawyers have acted as counsel before all levels of court in significant administrative and constitutional law cases, involving both Charter of Rights and division of powers issues, and we regularly appear before a variety of administrative tribunals. In addition, our lawyers assist clients in developing legal strategies for complying with complex regulatory requirements and provide advice, to both private and public sector clients, on the legal and public policy implications of changes in legislation and other government initiatives.
Our experience spans a broad range of industry sectors and related practice areas including aboriginal law, energy, environmental law, forest industry, health, northern practice, professional regulation, property tax, and public utility and regulatory law.
Our recent work includes:
acting for a group of citizens challenging the electoral district boundaries in the Northwest Territories following division of the Territory on the basis that the existing boundaries infringed the voting rights guarantee found in s. 3 of the Charter of Rights;
acting on behalf of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association in connection with a constitutional and administrative challenge to resolutions of the Surrey School Board (which effectively prohibited teachers from using certain books depicting families with same sex parents in a positive or morally neutral light);
acting for a large mining client in connection with all aspects of the regulatory process associated with its proposed diamond mine in the Northwest Territories;
acting in a judicial review proceeding concerning restrictions imposed by the provincial Medical Services Commission on the issuance of billing numbers to new physicians; and
acting for a large public utility in proceedings before the National Energy Board and the Federal Court concerning the export of hydroelectric power to the United States.
View the team members in our Administrative and Constitutional Law Group.
For more information please contact Ron A. Skolrood in Vancouver at 604.631.9134 or rskolrood@lawsonlundell.com.
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