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Blueberry River First Nations file claim challenging development in Northeast BC

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2015-03-03 Notice of Civil Claim.PDF

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03 Mar 2015

Blueberry River First Nations, a Treaty 8 nation, filed a lawsuit challenging the cumulative impacts of the development of their traditional territory and the failure of BC to uphold promises made in Treaty 8.

Ratcliff assists Squamish Nation in historic land deal with the Musqueam, Tseil-Waututh and federal governments

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Land development deal with B.C. First Nations launches new era (September 5, 2014)

Huge land deal opens big tracts of Vancouver to development (September 6, 2014)

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05 Oct 2014

Ratcliff lawyer Aaron Bruce assisted the Squamish Nation in negotiating an historic $307 million land deal.

Ratcliff Lawyers Successfully Defend Burnaby's Right to Enforce its By-laws

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Burnaby wins ruling against Kinder Morgan

Kinder Morgan loses motion to continue tree-cutting on Burnaby Mountain

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25 Sep 2014

In what's considered a huge win for the City of Burnaby's legal battle to stop the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, the National Energy Board struck down the company's application to forbid Burnaby city staff from blocking the pipeline company's test drilling on Burnaby Mountain in a protected c

City of Burnaby to Pursue Constitutional Challenge of National Energy Board

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Burnaby embark on constitutional challenge of NEB

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14 Aug 2014

Ratcliff lawyer Gregory McDade, counsel for the City of Burnaby, has filed notice with the National Energy Board that the city intends to pursue a constitutional challenge of section 73 of the National Energy Board Act.

Ratcliff lawyers succeed before Specific Claims Tribunal with finding that Canada breached its fiduciary duty to the Huu-ay-aht First Nations

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Decision - Huu-ay-aht First Nations v. HMTQ, 2014 SCTC 7

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15 Jul 2014

Ratcliff lawyers John Rich, Kate Blomfield and Emma Hume succeed in securing the Specific Claim Tribunal’s first compensation decision, successfully arguing that Canada breached its fiduciary duty to the Huu-ay-aht First Nations (“HFN”) multiple times and the HFN must be compensated.

Ratcliff Secures Costs for First Nations after a Victory against Canada at the Specific Claims Tribunal

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Decision After the Hearing, February 20, 2014 - 2014 SCT 2

Decision on Costs, June 25, 2014 - 2014 SCT 2

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25 Jun 2014

Ratcliff lawyers James Tate and Ava Murphy, together with co-counsel, successfully argued that Blueberry River First Nations and Doig First Nation should get their costs after defeating Canada’s first major challenge to their specific claim.

Ratcliff Gets the Supreme Court to Set Aside the Approval of the Whistler Official Community Plan for Failure to Consult the Squamish and Lil'wat Nations

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Judge Quashes Province's Approval of Whistler's Community Plan

B.C. Supreme Court Rules in Favour of First Nations on OCP

Reasons for Judgment, June 4, 2014 - 2014 BCSC 991

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04 Jun 2014

Ratcliff lawyers Greg McDade and Peter Millerd successfully applied on behalf of the Squamish Nation and the Lil’wat Nation to set aside the decision of the Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development to approve the Official Community Plan (OCP) of the Resort Municipality of Whistl

Ratcliff Gets the Supreme Court to Set Aside the Province’s Timber Allocation Decision for Failure to Consult Ehattesaht First Nation

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Court quashes Vancouver Island timber grant to Western Forest Products for not consulting First Nation band (May 16, 2014)

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2014 BCSC 849 Decision of Ehrcke J Ehattesaht First Nation v British Columbia (00890274).pdf

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14 May 2014

Ratcliff lawyers Matt Kirchner and Ava Murphy successfully applied on behalf of Ehattesaht First Nation to set aside the Ministry of Forests' decision to return over 1 million cubic meters of surplus timber that was available for reallocation to the control of Western Forest Products Inc.

Oral Hearings Quietly Vanish from Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Review

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Oral Hearings Quietly Vanish From Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Review

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14 Apr 2014

Ratcliff lawyer Greg McDade speaks out on behalf of his client, the City of Burnaby, on the issue of the National Energy Board cutting all cross-examination from the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline review process.

Ratcliff lawyers request that the National Energy Board reject Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project Application

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Burnaby calls Kinder Morgan’s pipeline proposal 'incomplete' (March 17, 2014)

Burnaby requests NEB reject Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion (March 17, 2014)

Trans Mountain Pipeline plans need amendment, says Burnaby (March 18, 2014)

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18 Mar 2014

Ratcliff lawyer Greg McDade on behalf of the City of Burnaby formally requested that the National Energy Board find that the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project Application is incomplete and reject it on the basis that it contains neither the information needed for the NEB to

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