Key Cases
Our lawyers are at the forefront of addressing some of the most significant injustices in Canada.
KEY CASES
Our key cases reflect our commitment to holding powerful actors accountable when their conduct causes serious harm. We act in complex, high-stakes litigation where individuals and communities face significant power imbalances and require experienced counsel to advance their claims.
Our work spans a range of public interest and mass wrongs, including aboriginal title and Indigenous rights litigation, human rights abuses, transnational corporate accountability, as well as government misconduct and constitutional (Charter) violations.
Through these cases, we seek to advance accountability, clarify the law in emerging areas, and ensure that those affected by systemic harm have meaningful access to justice.
Key Cases
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Gitanyow Aboriginal Title Action
Phillips Barristers act as co-counsel for the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs in Malii v. Canada, a landmark claim seeking judicial recognition of Aboriginal title over approximately 6,200 square kilometres of ancestral, unceded territory in northwestern British Columbia. This territory, known as the Gitanyow Lax’yip, encompasses the mid-Nass River and Kitwanga River watersheds and includes the land, minerals, inland waters, airspace, and all associated natural resources.
Human Rights Action Against Barrick Gold
CFM Lawyers and Phillips Barristers PC are legal counsel for Sophia Matiko John and 42 other Tanzanian plaintiffs in two human rights lawsuits against Barrick Mining Company regarding killings and other abuses at Barrick’s North Mara Mine in a remote region of Tanzania near the Kenyan border. The lawsuits allege that Barrick, in its role as parent company and overseer of operations at North Mara, is responsible at law for instances of torture, beatings, disappearances, and killings allegedly perpetrated by the Tanzanian Police Force (TPF) while operating as a security provider to the mine.