D.
Bruce Clarke, QC
Partner through professional corporation - Corporate and Commercial
Law, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights
Email D. Bruce Clarke, QC
Bruce Clarke is a graduate of Dalhousie
Law School and was admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1982.
He articled with and joined the firm of Burchells, and became
a partner in 1988. His practice is in the areas of Corporate
and Commercial Law, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, and Aboriginal and Treaty Rights.
Bruce acts as counsel for many of the insolvency practitioners
in Nova Scotia and is the Bar representative on the Nova Scotia
Supreme Court Justices' Committee on Bankruptcy and Insolvency
issues. He has tried insolvency cases in the Supreme Court
of Canada, the Federal Court, Trial Division and Appeal Division,
and the Nova Scotia Supreme Court and Appeal Court. Bruce
was the Chair of the CBA Bankruptcy and Insolvency Subsection
from 1998 to 2000 and was a member of the part-time faculty
at Dalhousie Law School, teaching the Bankruptcy and Insolvency
course from 1994 to 1999. Bruce is also the Chair of the Nova
Scotia Bar Admissions Appeals Committee and a lecturer at
the Bar Admissions course on the drafting of commercial documents.
He has presented papers at many conferences on Corporate and
Commercial law and on Insolvency issues.
Bruce is a member of the Contributing Editorial Board for
the National Creditor Debtor Review.
Bruce has been active
in the area of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights since 1983. He
appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in the landmark
cases of R. v. Simon in 1984 and Marshall v. R. in 1998, R.
v. Powley in 2003 and R. v. Bernard/Stephen Marshall in 2005.
He represented the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (then
the Native Council of Canada) in the Charlottetown Accord
constitutional negotiations. He has acted as a contributor
to numerous publications on Aboriginal issues and has often
been a conference presenter on Aboriginal issues. He is active
on aboriginal matters in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince
Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Bruce was a contributor to The Mi’kmaq Treaty Handbook (1987),
the Netukulimkewe’l Aquatic National Life Guidelines (1990,1994),
the Netukulimkewe’l Land Based and Fowl Natural Life Guidelines
(1990, 1995), Mi’kmaq and the Law (1991), Towards a Better
Understanding (1993) and Completing the Circle (1997). Bruce
is also the author of “Aboriginal Peacemaking Circles” (2001)
and "the Limitation of Litigation as a Means of Reconciling
Aboriginal Rights", published in "Legal Aspects
of Aboriginal Business Development" in 2005. Bruce
is an external reviewer for the Indigeonous Law Journal.
In 2005, Bruce was
elected as a member of the Council of the Nova Scotia Barristers
Society.
Bruce has been listed
in "The Best Lawyers in Canada" 2010 edition in
the field of Aboriginal Law.
