Estimated at between$13.9 billion and $8.7 trillion, Six Nations massive land claim about to hit the courts Lawyers are stressing the importance of the community’s participation at the Six Nations Elected Council’s (SNEC) coming Haldimand Treaty land rights court proceedings. “It does really help the judge understand that this case is about real people,” said JFK Law’s Robert Janes, one of the leading lawyers on the case. “A real community, real experiences. For a judge to look out and not just see a room full of lawyers, but to see some of you. It puts a face to the names we’re talking about.” Janes— flanked by Max Shapiro and Iris Antonios of Blake, Cassells, and Graydon (BCG), the other law firm on the case—emphasized while the lawyers were arguing the…
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