Robert White, Q.C.

He has been lead counsel in intricate and important major criminal cases in murder, arson, conspiracy, and fraud; medical and legal malpractice litigation; municipal property taxation appeals; complex estate litigation; cases concerning the meaning of the Constitution; cases in numerous aspects of environmental law; international child custody disputes; construction law cases; public inquiries and inquiries under the CCAA; shareholders' disputes; utility arbitrations; royalty arbitrations and the negotiation of specialist fees for medical doctors.

Robert has been frequently consulted by other law firms concerning aspects of their cases, has sat as a labour arbitrator, and looks forward to these and any other new, interesting, challenging or worthy cases and clients.

Robert believes in access to justice for all, which was the reason he became a trial and appeals lawyer--an advocate. He has represented many who have had a meritorious case and were in need. These include a family without funds in the first case in Canada in which a court ordered a school board to make accommodation for a physically challenged child, an appeal for a group of neighbors who had been seriously let down by their municipal government, and an indigent hospital orderly charged with the murder of two patients.

Robert's practice has taken him to:

• the Provincial Court of Alberta;
• the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta;
• the Alberta Court of Appeal;
• the Supreme Court of The Yukon Territory;
• the Supreme Court of Saskatchewan;
• the Federal Court Trial Division;
• the Federal Court Appeal Division;
• the Supreme Court of Canada; and
• many administrative tribunals , municipal councils, professional discipline boards, and arbitration panels.

His practice defines that of the classical advocate: everything that can be done in any court or other tribunal, and the settlement or negotiation of any problem or issue.

Robert has taught as a sessional lecturer in the University of Alberta Faculty of Law for eighteen years and has lectured at legal education society seminars in Alberta and British Columbia. He has also taught in the Bar Admission Course and in a head-start program for First Nation students.