Upcoming 2026-11-05 and 06: CLEBC Human Rights Conference
Lisa Fong and Ruben Tillman will be speaking about how UNDRIP applies to provide for Indigenous-specific remedies under the BC Human Rights Code.
Publications & Events
Upcoming 2026-10-28: PBLI Developments in Aboriginal and Indigenous Law
Lisa Fong and Ruben Tillman will speak about the impact of UNDIRP on major projects, and the transformation of the duty to consult.
Upcoming 2026-07-26: Coastal Strong Symposium.
Lisa Fong will join Jessica Clogg, E.D. of West Coast Environmental Law in Bella Bella to discuss DRIPA, UNDRIP and legal resistance.
2026-06-16: CLEBC Emerging Issues in Indigenous Environmental Litigation
Lisa Fong and Amanda Nurse discussed current cases and the future of UNDRIP in Indigenous environmental litigation.
2026-05-21: CBABC Aboriginal & Energy Law Seminar
Lisa Fong spoke on UNDRIP impacts to energy projects.
2026-05-20: PBLI Indigenous Rights to Water Forum
Lisa Fong and Ruben Tillman spoke about Indigenous rights to the Seabed and Rights to Mine the Seabed.
2025 -11- 25 BCCAT Round Table
Natasha Dookie (Chief Legal Officer, BC Nurses and Midwives), Michelle Casavant, KC (Inquiry Committee, College of Physicians and Surgeons), and Lisa C. Fong, KC discussed the application of UNDRIP to administrative tribunals.
2025-08-17: CLEBC Practice Manual on Expert Evidence in BC Civil Proceedings 2025
Lisa C. Fong and Michael Ng were pleased to author chapter 10 of CLEBC's practice manual, "on "Expert Evidence and Administrative Tribunals". The chapter addresses the admissibility of evidence before administrative tribunals under common law and specific statutes, the need for expert evidence despite an expert tribunal, and when expert evidence might not be needed due to tribunal expertise. This practice manual is now available for purchase from CLEBC here (online) and here (paper version).
2024-11-07: RAVEN UNDRIP webinar
Ruben Tillman discussed the state of the implementation of UNDRIP in Canadian law, the current sites of legal dispute, and the possibilities that UNDRIP presents to reconcile Indigenous laws and Canadian laws.
2024-11-06: CBA Alberta aboriginal law section
Lisa Fong, KC and Amanda Nurse addressed the current cases interpreting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) under the BC and Federal Declaration Acts.
2024-10-23: PBLI Developments in Aboriginal and Indigenous Law 2024
Ruben unpacked the case of Gitxaala v. British Columbia (Chief Gold Commissioner), 2023 BCSC 1680, and discussed the upcoming appeal (on whether courts can decide if BC laws are inconsistent with UNDRIP for purposes of s. 3 of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, SBC 2019, c.44 (DRIPA)).
2024-Jun-06 CLEBC conference: “Self-Governing Professions”
On June 6, 2024, Lisa C. Fong, KC and Angela Westmacott, KC chaired CLEBC’s Self-Governing Professions Conference. This year’s conference included discussions on constitutional issues, civil liability of regulators, recent legislative developments, and Justice Harvey Groberman speaking about why professional regulation is so difficult.
2023-Nov-17: CLEBC Human Rights Conference
On November 17, 2023, Lisa C. Fong, KC and Ruben Tillman spoke at CLEBC's Human Rights Conference about,
- how s 8.1 of the BC Interpretation Act, and DRIPA/UNDRIP can be used to interpret the Human Rights Code and provide for deeper engagement with Indigenous human rights issues on a systemic level;
- our recent human rights cases, including the Maxwell Johnson case, and the reason we as lawyers take these kinds of cases on; and
- the patterns we have seen in taking on systemic discrimination cases, including impediments to progress in addressing systemic issues.
2023-Oct-31: PBLI Conference, Nothing About Us Without Us: Indigenous jurisdiction over mining and marine territories
On October 31-November 1, 2023, Ng Ariss Fong, Lawyers and White Raven Law co-chaired PBLI’s conference, “Nothing About Us Without Us: Indigenous jurisdiction over mining and marine territories”. View the agenda (here) or listen to our blogs about some of the presenters (here).
CLEBC Aboriginal Law Conference
On November 4, 2021, Lisa C. Fong, Q.C. and Rubin Tillman discussed how the automatic mineral tenure staking system in BC is inconsistent with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.