Our Approach

EMPLOYMENT

• Advice to First Nation employers on recruitment, drafting and negotiation of employment contracts, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement, non-competition agreements, workplace investigation and discipline, and termination of employment.

• Advice on harassment, human rights, reasonable accommodation, and occupational health and safety.

• Employment litigation before human rights tribunals, trial and appeal courts.

PRIVACY & INFORMATION ACCESS LEGAL SERVICES OFFERED

• Advice and training for First Nations on privacy, information security, and access to legal obligations and rights under federal and provincial law.

• Development of privacy and data protection policies, compliance with industry codes of conduct and reduction of liability exposure for privacy & information security obligations.

• Representation in responding to government demands for information, subpoenas for testimony or documents at inquiries and other tribunal or court proceedings, search and seizure and electronic surveillance.

• Advocacy before government officials and the courts on access to information and privacy issues.

Experience of the Employment and Privacy Lawyers

Gordon S. Campbell leads the firm’s employment and privacy practice, where he has litigated judicial review, trial and appellate privacy law matters up to level of Supreme Court of Canada.

He has served as an employment and labour lawyer before employment tribunals and the Federal Court throughout Canada.

He has advised the Attorney General of Canada, Attorney General of Ontario, RCMP, Canada Revenue Agency and Canada Border Services Agency as well as numerous other federal and provincial government departments and law enforcement agencies on privacy, information security and access law. He has served as Canada’s Director of E-Business Development with Industry Canada, responsible for privacy, information access and security policy connected to Information Communication Technologies (ICT) utilized by business, including directing Canada’s relations on e-business at the World Trade Organization (WTO), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and the G8/G20.

He is author of the The Investigator’s Legal Handbook (Toronto: Thomson Carswell, 2006), Le manuel juridique de l’enquêteur (Cowansville, QC: Yvon Blais, 2010) and articles like “Emerging Issues of the Internet and Canadian Criminal Law” 3 Can. Crim. L.R. 101