Gary Campo
Lawyer
Email: gary@woodwardandcompany.com
Assistant: Jamie Zyla | Jamie@woodwardandcompany.com
Profile
After graduating from UVIC’s Law Co-op Program in 2000, where Gary had the benefit of working three separate work terms as a law student, Gary began his legal career at Woodward & Company. Gary advises aboriginal governments and organizations on employment, contract, constitutional, and administrative law issues, Indian Act issues, band governance, on and off-reserve land use, leasing, taxation, including the creation of tax efficient business structures, the duty of consultation and accommodation, aboriginal rights and title issues, including hunting, trapping, fishing and forestry related issues, specific claims and settlement negotiations.From 2000 to 2007 Gary worked on the leading aboriginal title and rights case in British Columbia, William v. British Columbia et al, developing and presenting a body of evidence that succeeded in proving Aboriginal rights and title. Gary has served on the National and Vancouver Island Executive of the Canadian Bar Association Aboriginal Law Section for many years. Gary also served as the University of Victoria, Faculty of Law, Native Law Students Association Vice President, Treasurer and Co-President in 1997, 1998 and 1999, respectively.
He also is the recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award, the Keith B. Jobson Award and the Chief Michael Underwood Award for leadership, community interest and academic excellence with respect to Aboriginal issues.
Professional Standing:
Member, Law Society of B.C. (2001-Present)
Member, Canadian Bar Association (2001 - Present)
Executive Member of the CBA National Aboriginal Law Section (2007-Present)
Treasurer of the CBA National Aboriginal Law Section (2005-2007)
Secretary of the CBA National Aboriginal Law Section (2002-2005)
Executive Member of the CBA Aboriginal Law Subsection, Vancouver Island (2007-Present)
Treasurer of the CBA Aboriginal Law Subsection, Vancouver Island (2005-2007)
Member of the BC Law Society Equity and Diversity Committee Working Group (1999, 2004-2005)
University of Victoria, Faculty of Law, Student Law Society, First Year Class Co-President (1997)
Selected Cases, Publicatons, Papers & Presentations:
Cases:
Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia, 2007 BCSC 1700 (leave to appeal granted,
2009 BCCA 83) (the Tsilhqot’in aboriginal title and aboriginal rights trial judgment)
Publications:
Oral History Does Make a Difference, CBA National Aboriginal Law Conference, Indigenous Perspectives Influence Canadian Law, Yellowknife, February 2008
Papers and Presentations:
Oral History in the Evidentiary Context, University of Victoria, Faculty of Law, Evidence Course, July 2009
Overlaps in the Business Context, Moderator and Organizer, CBA National Aboriginal Law Conference, Overlapping Territory Claims: Models for Dispute Resolution and the Business Context, Victoria, BC, June 2009
Tax Exemptions Available to First Nations, First Nations Taxation Workshop, Duncan, November 2008
Williams v. BC et al: The Challenges & Success with Oral History, Aboriginal Title Conference, Westbank, BC, January 2008
The Tsilhqot’in Aboriginal Title Case, Assembly of First Nations, Special Chiefs Meeting, Ottawa, December 2007
The Tsilhqot’in Aboriginal Title Case: What Does it Mean?, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, Special Chiefs Meeting, Vancouver, November 2007
Oral History Used in the Courts, CBA National Aboriginal Law Section, Federal Court Liaison Meeting, Presentation to the Federal Court, Manitoba, March 2007
Oral History, Sword or Shield?, Society for Applied Anthropology, World on the Edge Conference, Vancouver, BC, March 2006
Obstacles in Putting Oral History Before the Court, CBA Aboriginal Law Subsection, Vancouver Island, Victoria, BC, October 2005
What is Aboriginal Title?, Naghataneqed Secondary School, Senior Class, Nemiah Valley, BC, 2002
Other Activities:
Time with his family, softball, golf, history, and listening to old-timer stories.