West Moberly First Nations v. British Columbia, 2020 BCCA 138 Summary A majority of the BC Court of Appeal has affirmed that the western boundary of Treaty No. 8 lies along the Arctic-Pacific divide. The court dismissed British Columbia’s appeal and upheld the BC...
The BC Court of Appeal agreed with the Treaty 8 First Nations and Canada that the western boundary of Treaty No. 8 lies along the Arctic-Pacific divide, dismissing the Province’s appeal of the declaration at trial to that effect. Chief Justice Bauman wrote the...
Case Brief: Restoule v. Canada (Attorney General), 2018 ONSC 7701 (“Restoule”) Restoule considers a clause in the Robinson Treaties of 1850 respecting the annuities to be paid, and whether they should be increased beyond the $4 per year set in the nineteenth century....
Christopher Devlin and John Gailus in Vancouver on April 27, 2018, paying tribute to the longest-serving Chief Justice of Canada, The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin. To learn more about The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin’s judicial career, click here....
DGW Law’s Christopher Devlin spoke with Doug Beazley for a Canadian Bar Association’ online magazine “National” article, ‘Decolonizing the Indian Act.’ The article’s thesis can be summed up as: “[n]o one loves the Indian Act, but no one quite seems...
