Christopher Devlin was recently interviewed by APTN for their episode of APTN Investigates: Cows and Plows. In this episode, APTN explores what exactly gave rise to the Agricultural Benefits claims, hears concerns from payout recipients, and discusses how First...
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....
Aboriginal Rights in Conflict: First in Time, First in Right? Gamlaxyeltxw v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests, Lands & Natural Resource Operations), 2018 BCSC 440 In Gamlaxyeltxw, Justice Sharma of the British Columbia Supreme Court addressed the novel issue...
Case Brief of Williams Lake Indian Band v. Canada (Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development), 2018 SCC 4 At issue before the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) in Williams Lake was the validity of a claim to compensation under the Specific Claims Tribunal Act, S.C....
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...
