civil disputes • personal injury • human rights, civil rights and Charter claims • workplace investigations • Coroner’s inquests • inquiries and reviews • Aboriginal law including rights claims and Indian Act governance • Indigenous law including membership codes, election codes and community constitutions
Cases
Experience
Meaghan has particular expertise in the following areas: police accountability, prison law, protest rights and legal support for activists and indigenous issues, including those facing fly-in and remote First Nations. She has appeared in various courts, tribunals, Chief’s meetings and community halls.
Whether consciously or not, some concept of law exists inside every lawyer. And what we think ‘law’ is, determines how we practice law, and what we think the law can and should do for you.
I believe law is something we create to protect what we value. Lawyering is a creative act, as the arguments we make become the decisions we live by.
But being creative isn’t enough. Lawyers must also be strategists to overcome power imbalances that will otherwise decide a legal battle. There isn’t one right way to frame a dispute, or reach a remedy; a good litigation plan accounts for the political and the practical realities of the case and the client. It takes creativity and strategy - vision rooted in context - to be an effective lawyer.