Practice Areas
- Criminal Law
- DUI Charges: What is Impaired Driving?
- Drunk Driving and Over .80 Charges: Top 5 Myths About Impaired Driving Charges in Nova Scotia
- Criminal Charges: What Does "Reasonable and Probable Grounds" Mean?
- What is Unreasonable Search and Seizure: Criminal Code of Canada
- Nova Scotia Criminal Defence Lawyer Explains: The Right to Remain Silent
- “I’ve been arrested and taken to the Police Station. What do I do now?” Nova Scotia Criminal Defence Lawyer Explains
- What is the Right to Legal Counsel?
- The Burden of Proof in Criminal Cases: Nova Scotia Criminal Defence Lawyer Explains
- Personal Injury
- Personal Injury Claims in Nova Scotia: The “Golden Rule”
- Nova Scotia Personal Injury Claims: Are they different than claims in the United States?
- Car and Truck Crashes: What to do after an accident
- The Burden of Proof in Personal Injury Claims: Nova Scotia Personal Injury Lawyer John McKiggan Explains
- Personal Injury Claims: What Do I Have to Prove to Win my Case?
- Personal Injury Claims in Nova Scotia: Top Ten Tips to Help Get Fair Compensation for your Injuries
- Car Accident Claims in Nova Scotia: Steps in a Typical Car Collision Claim
- Personal Injury Claims in Nova Scotia: How Long Will All of This Take?
- "What's my claim worth?": Canada's Limit on Compensation for “Pain and Suffering”
- "Minor Injury" Claims: Nova Scotia's Cap on Compensation for Car Crash Injuries (2003 - 2010)
- Nova Scotia's Minor Injury Cap (2003 to 2010): A checklist for accident victims
- "What's my claim worth?" Calculating compensation in Personal Injury Claims
- Discovering and Treating "Hidden Injuries"
- Fatal Injury and Wrongful Death Claims in Nova Scotia
- Defence Medical Exams: The Myth of "Independant" Medical Exams
- Nova Scotia's New "Minor Injury" Cap (2010 to date)
- Car and Truck Accident Claims in Nova Scotia
- Spinal Cord Injury Claims
- Medical Malpractice
- What is Medical Malpractice? Medical Malpractice Lawyer John McKiggan Explains
- Informed Consent to Medical Treatment: "I signed the form. Does that mean I don't have a claim?"
- Are Canadian Medical Malpractice Claims Different Than in the United States? Nova Scotia Medical Malpractice Lawyer John McKiggan Explains
- The Top 5 Defences to Medical Malpractice Claims
- Birth Injuries
- Misdiagnosis Can Lead to medical Malpractice Claims
- What Do I Have to Prove to Win My Medical Malpractice Case?
- Standard of Care in Medical Malpractice Claims
- Brain Injury
- Sexual Abuse Compensation Claims
- Sexual Abuse by Priests and other Clergy
- Father Hugh Vincent MacDonald (Antigonish Diocese)
- Father Clair Richard (Antigonish Diocese)
- Father Claude Richard (Antigonish Diocese)
- Father James Mombourquette (Antigonish Diocese)
- Father Raoul Deveau (Yarmouth Diocese)
- Father John Mitchell (Anglican Diocese of Nova Scotia & P.E.I.)
- Father Levi Noel (Bathurst Diocese)
- Father Charles Picot (Bathurst Diocese)
- Father William Hodgson Marshall
- Father Philip Jacobs (Victoria B.C. Diocese)
- Father Bernard Cloutier (Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie)
- Father Donald Grecco (St. Catherine's Ontario Diocese)
- Monsignor Bernard Prince (Pembroke, Ontario Diocese)
- Archbishop Seraphim Storheim (Orthodox Church in America)
- Father George Smith (St. George's Diocese NL & Diocese of Charlottetown, PEI)
- Father Albert LeBlanc (Yarmouth Diocese)
- Insurance Claims
- Labour & Employment
- Indian Residential School Claims
- Class Actions
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