EFFECTIVE LITIGATION INVOLVES MAKING FULL USE OF RULES OF PROCEDURE AND EVIDENCE
While litigation should at times be a last resort in dispute resolution, it can be a very effective means of either forcing a negotiated settlement or bringing final closure to a longstanding dispute. When you are responding to litigation initiated by government like a criminal prosecution, you may have no choice but to present the strongest factual and legal defence possible.
If an initial hearing or trial of your case hasn’t gone well for you, you may have more remedies available to overturn that decision than you thought possible – but only if you act quickly. You will need a lawyer who is intimately acquainted with rules of courts, tribunals, boards, inquiries and evidence. Your facts may be challenging, but taking full advantage of the rules can give you a good case.
Gordon Scott Campbell provides firm, effective and creative advocacy before inquiries, boards, tribunals, trial and appeal courts so that your legal arguments and evidence count. He has conducted hundreds of trials and appeals, and he knows what hearing officers, justices and judges are looking for in arguments and evidence.
Appeals are a particular focus of Gordon Scott Campbell’s practice. He has appeared several times before the Supreme Court of Canada and many times before provincial and federal appellate courts.
Be it the defence of criminal or regulatory charges in the Ontario Court of Justice or Ontairo Superior Court of Justice, a tax dispute brought before the Tax Court of Canada, a business dispute in your local civil court, a customs tariff classification disagreement heard by the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, an appeal of an access to information order to the Federal Court, an environmental matter at the Environmental Review Tribunal, or an immigration matter at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Gordon Scott Campbell will advocate on your behalf, make full use of the procedural rules, and enable you to advance you best factual and legal arguments.
