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Home > Our Services > Litigation

Litigation

McInnes Cooper offers you highly diversified litigation services. Our lawyers have represented clients in:

  • commercial litigation;
  • contractual breaches;
  • service contracts;
  • wrongful dismissal;
  • environmental and other regulatory litigation;
  • wrongful actions concerning titles to land;
  • expropriations;
  • property leases;
  • administrative law issues;
  • municipal and land use issues;
  • products liability;
  • occupiers liability;
  • personal injury and wrongful death;
  • damage to property; and
  • injunctions.

Our Business Dispute Resolution lawyers are experienced in identifying material issues in any dispute, as soon as possible, so we can help guide our clients to the best resolution, in the most cost-effective way. We also have experience in alternative dispute resolution and are frequently involved in mediating and/or arbitrating cases on behalf of our clients in order to achieve timely and cost-effective resolutions.

We appear at every level of court in the Atlantic Provinces, and in the Federal Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada. As well, we regularly appear at all levels of administrative and regulatory tribunals, and in arbitrations and mediations, in Atlantic Canada, nationally and internationally, both as counsel and as arbitrators and mediators.

McInnes Cooper is ranked first overall in “Litigation Lawyers” for Halifax in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. To see the most recent rankings, click here.

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  • Gurung v Trampleasure, 2020 BCSC 1643

    On November 4, 2020, Justice Ross of the British Columbia Supreme Court awarded damages in the amount of $514,125 to the Plaintiff, Ms. Gurung.

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    On January 6, 2020, Justice Branch of the British Columbia Supreme Court awarded damages in the amount of $492,648 plus special damages to the…

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    On December 9, 2022, Justice Caldwell of the British Columbia Supreme Court awarded the Plaintiff, Mr. Weterings, $505,801 in damages.

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