Our clients’ interests are seldom confined to one area of legal doctrine — neither is our practice. We are barristers with the breadth of knowledge and law experience to represent interests across a variety of legal disciplines. Our size and independence allows us to be selective in our retainers, ensuring the highest standards in advocacy while acting in the most intricate and challenging of cases.
Commercial disputes among multi-national corporations in the resource and petrochemical sectors are a mainstay of our practice. Supply contract breaches, inventory protection guarantees and pipeline construction liens are typical examples. Local and regional companies likewise engage us: as counsel in shareholder disputes and directors’ liability matters, or to protect proprietary interests.
In the Supreme Court of Canada we have argued public law cases on the protection of free speech at elections, independence of the judiciary, aboriginal rights and public school funding. In our regulatory practice we appear before professional licensing and disciplinary bodies, securities commissions, municipal planning authorities, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) and Alberta Surface Rights Board (SRB), to name a few.
We have provided services to the courts as counsel for court-appointed receivers, represented other law firms in partnership disputes, undertaken civil fraud investigations for the financial services industry, and acted as counsel to professional disciplinary tribunals.
Underwriters use our services to pursue subrogated tort claims, defend covered claims or coverage suits; others in defence of professional liability matters.
Individuals wronged by action or inaction of governmental agencies depend upon our counsel to seek redress. Employees wrongly terminated by employers call upon Code Hunter for representation. Defamation, malicious prosecution, trespass and all manner of private wrongs are prosecuted and defended as a regular part of our practice.