Source: http://grantnativelaw.com/practice-areas/aboriginal-rights-title/
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 03:05:24+00:00

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Counsel at Grant Huberman have been involved in Aboriginal rights and title litigation since 1977, when Peter Grant, the principal of Grant Huberman, raised Aboriginal rights defences to hunting and fishing charges laid against Gitksan persons. In a series of early leading fishing rights cases, he obtained the acquittals of 24 persons charged with illegally selling fish in the Gitksan community. The Wet’suwet’en were successful in obtaining the recognition of their aboriginal fishing rights in R v. Nikal, a case argued by Peter Grant all the way up to the Supreme Court of Canada.
From the initial discussions of the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en Chiefs to go to Court until the hearing before the Supreme Court of Canada, Peter was involved in the pivotal Aboriginal title case, Delgamuukw v. The Queen. As one of the lead counsel at trial, he prepared the evidence of over 100 elders who testified by way of affidavits, interrogatories, commission evidence, and at trial. He was counsel for the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en in the BC Supreme Court and Court of Appeal and he represented the Gitxsan before the Supreme Court of Canada.
Since Delgamuukw, Peter’s legal team has played a significant role in the interpretation of Section 35 rights. In Luuxhon v. The Queen, counsel successfully argued that the Crown has a duty to negotiate in good faith when engaging in treaty negotiations. In other cases counsel helped to clarify the Crown’s duty to consult First Nations with the aim of accommodating their Aboriginal rights and titles (Gwasslam v. British Columbia, Homalco Indian Band v. British and Hupacasath First Nation v. British Columbia).

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