Halsbury's Laws of Canada – Constitutional Law – Charter of Rights (2023 Reissue) / Constitutional Law – Division of Powers (2023 Reissue)

The Honourable Mr. Justice Guy Régimbald, B.S.Sc., LL.B., B.C.L. (Oxon.), was appointed to the Federal Court, and ex offıcio member of the Federal Court of Appeal, on October 7, 2022. He obtained his LL.B. from the University of Ottawa and his B.C.L. (Master of Laws) from the University of Oxford. He was previously called to the Law Society of Ontario, the Barreau du Québec, and the Law Society of Nunavut.

Prior to his appointment, Justice Régimbald was a partner and the National Leader of the Administrative Law Group at Gowling WLG, where his practice focused on constitutional and administrative law, Indigenous law, intellectual property and taxation. He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada for his work in administrative & public law and in appellate practice (including as lawyer of the year in both categories), by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in Indigenous law and litigation public Law, by Chambers Canada in Litigation: public & administrative law, and by Managing Intellectual Property in copyright law and trademarks.

Prior to joining Gowling WLG, Justice Régimbald was a law clerk to Justices Marshall Rothstein and John C. Major of the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as for Justice Marc Noël (later Chief Justice) at the Federal Court of Appeal. He also worked for the Department of Justice in the Constitutional and Administrative Law Section and for the Privy Council of Canada, and taught constitutional law, administrative law and international law at the University of Ottawa.

Dwight Newman, K.C., B.A., M.A.T.S., J.D., M.Sc., B.C.L., M.Phil., D.Phil., is a Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Rights in Constitutional and International Law at the University of Saskatchewan, where he started in a faculty position in 2005 and has also served a three-year term as Associate Dean. He has also taught during shorter visiting terms at Alberta, McGill and Oxford. In recent years, he has been a visiting fellow at Princeton, the Université de Montréal, Cambridge, the University of Western Australia and Oxford. Dr. Newman has published around 150 articles or book chapters and fifteen books. His books include two monographs on the duty to consult doctrine, a book on Natural Resource Jurisdiction in Canada (2013), both the Charter of Rights title of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada and The Law of the Canadian Constitution (a general treatise with co-author Justice Guy Régimbald) (2013; second edition 2017), and Mining Law of Canada (2018). His edited collections include Religious Freedom and Communities (2016), Business Implications of Aboriginal Law (2018), Indigenous-Industry Agreements, Natural Resources, and the Law (co-edited in 2021) and the Edward Elgar Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights (2022).

His writing has been cited by all levels of Canadian courts, including repeatedly by the Supreme Court of Canada. He is a Munk Senior Fellow of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and has contributed to policy discussions by publishing a number of think tank reports. He has also served as an expert member of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and contributed to discussions on international norms on related issues. He has delivered dozens of presentations to a variety of audiences on six continents and has published many op eds in leading Canadian and American newspapers. Prior to entering a faculty role, Dr. Newman clerked for Chief Justice Lamer and Justice LeBel at the Supreme Court of Canada, worked for NGOs in South Africa and Hong Kong and for the Canadian Department of Justice, and completed his graduate studies at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He is a member of the Ontario and Saskatchewan bars and he has done legal work for industry, government and Indigenous communities on constitutional law issues, as well as consulting work on resource issues for international investment entities. In 2017, he was named to the College of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2018 he was designated a Queen’s Counsel (now King’s Counsel).

John J. Wilson, B.A. (Hons.), J.D., B.C.L. (Oxon.), practises public law in Gowling WLG’s Toronto office, chiefly in the areas of administrative law, Crown liability, constitutional law, regulatory law, and Indigenous law. He acts for both private clients and public authorities in administrative and civil proceedings, applications for judicial review, and appeals. John has appeared at all levels of the Ontario and Federal Courts, and the Supreme Court of Canada. His work has been published in the Annual Review of Civil Litigation and the McGill Law Journal. John is a graduate of the University of Oxford (B.C.L.), Osgoode Hall Law School (J.D.) and Queen’s University at Kingston (B.A. (Hons.)).