PRACTICE AREAS - Government Relations & Public Advocacy

McKercher LLP lawyers act as counsel for individuals, private and public corporations and aboriginal organizations in need of an intermediary on governmental relations. Our Firm has experience dealing with issues associated with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; aboriginal law issues; provincial and federal administrative issues and applications for judicial review. Members of this practice area have appeared before all levels of Court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and have been involved in some of Canada's leading constitutional, administrative and aboriginal cases: Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc. v. Saskatchewan; First Vancouver Finance v. Canada (Minister of National Revenue – M.N.R.); Public School Boards' Association of Alberta v. Alberta (Attorney General); Lindsay v. Saskatchewan (Workers' Compensation Board).

We also have lawyers who act as advisors to both the federal and provincial governments on constitutional, inter-governmental and related matters. Our members are frequently asked to speak on the latest developments in their respective areas of expertise. Several members of our legal team have been integrally involved in public inquiries, including the North Battleford Water Inquiry, the Inquiry into the Death of Neil Stonechild and the Inquiry into the Wrongful Conviction of David Milgaard.