Practice Areas
- Criminal Law
- Drunk Driving Charges: “Can I talk to a lawyer?” - Nova Scotia Criminal Defence lawyer explains
- 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
- Criminal Charges in Canada: Criminal Defense Lawyer in Nova Scotia
- Presumption of Innocence: Criminal Defense in Canada
- The Criminal Investigation Process in Canada
- Criminal Charges in Canada: “Who decides if I am charged with a criminal offense?“
- Criminal Charges in Canada: “Are there different types of criminal charges?”
- Preliminary Inquiry
- 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?
- Injury Claims in Nova Scotia: Top Ten Tips to Help You Get Fair Compensation
- 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?
- Sub-Area
- "Minor Injury" Claims: Nova Scotia's Cap on Compensation for Car Crash Injuries (2003 - 2010)
- Car and Truck Collision Claims in Nova Scotia
- Spinal Cord Injury Claims
- "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 the Independant Medical Exam
- Nova Scotia's New "Minor Injury" legislation (April 2010 to date)
- Car and Truck Accident Claims
- Car and Truck Crashes: What to do after an accident
- Car Accident Claims in Nova Scotia: Steps in a Typical Car Collision Claim
- "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
- Nova Scotia's New "Minor Injury" Cap (2010 to date)
- The Deadly Consequences of Distracted Driving (and what you can do to help)
- "I Have Been in a Car Accident in Nova Scotia! What Should I Do?"
- Spinal Cord Injury Claims
- Medical Malpractice
- Cerebral Palsy Claims: The link between medical malpractice and CP.
- What is Medical Malpractice? Lawyer John McKiggan Explains
- Informed Consent to Medical Treatment:
- 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 Caused by Oxygen Deprivation: Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy
- 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
- Erb's Palsy and Brachial Plexus Claims Caused by Birth Injuries
- 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
- Indian Residential School Claims
- Class Actions
- Kids and Cars.Org/Canada
