Stuart
C.B. Gilby
Associate - Aboriginal, Administrative, Environmental, Human
Rights, International, and Natural Resources Law Email Stuart C.B. Gilby
Stuart
Gilby received his Bachelor of Laws degree and Master of Laws
degree from Dalhousie Law School in 1995 and 1996 respectively.
Stuart's Master of Laws thesis examined the extensive problem
of environmental racism and its impacts on Native Peoples
throughout Canada.
Stuart is a member of the New Brunswick Law Society, the Nova
Scotia Barristers' Society and the Canadian Bar Association
- of which he is a past Chair of the Environmental Law Subsection
for Nova Scotia. He is also a member of the National
Aboriginal Forestry Association and the International Commission
of Jurists. He has presented papers at a wide range of legal
conferences across Canada and overseas and he often lectures
on Aboriginal Peoples rights' at secondary schools, colleges
and universities.
His
preferred area of practice is Aboriginal Law and he acts for
First Nations, Tribal Councils and First Nations' representative
organizations across Canada as both a litigator and negotiator.
Stuart has been involved in a number of major cases concerning
Aboriginal and Treaty rights at all levels of court in several
provinces, at the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal
and at the Supreme Court of Canada. He has engaged in various
substantive negotiation tables across the country on behalf
of First Nations with government and industry on a wide range
of issues including: Aboriginal and Treaty rights, Aboriginal
title, business and corporate matters, economic development,
education, employment and labour, governance, health, natural
resources, and social development.
He
has been designated by his peers as one of the “Best Lawyers
in Canada” engaged in the practice of Aboriginal Law for 2007,
2008, 2009 and 2010 in the book of that name. He has
also been designated as “Repeatedly Recommended” in the practice
area of Aboriginal Law by his peers through the legal publisher
Lexpert for 2008 and 2009. Stuart is listed by the publication
LawDay as one of the top 35 leading lawyers in Canada in the
practice area of Aboriginal Law for the year 2009.
