Since 2017, the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation has issued Administrative Monetary Penalties (AMPs) to support the enforcement of the Mines Act, associated regulations, and permits issued under the Act.

Ascendion Law achieved a major award for our client against his former employers.

I was recently recognized with a 2023 Platinum Client Champion Award and Martindale-Hubbell Client Review Rating score of 5.0 out of 5.0. 

In a recent case, Chilwin Cheng and Janessa Mason obtained acquittals of all significant charges against two mining company executives in B.C.

Wang v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2023 BCCA 101 (CanLII)  

Our Associates Janessa Mason and Cory Russell have just completed the Winter 2023 session of the Vancouver Bar Association Inns of Court program.

As the Mentorship Director for the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers (BC Chapter), it’s my role to develop the mentorship program connecting Black lawyers in BC with Black/African/Caribbean/mixed-race law students at UVic, Thompson Rivers, and Allard. 

The state really is watching you: The courts blur, again, the distinction between public and private information in a regulatory prosecution. A case comment on R. v Saad, 2021 BCSC 1117 (CanLII).

In R. v Stevikova, the accused successfully appealed a sentence imposed after a conviction under the Wildlife Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 488.

Your phone rings. Your client is panicking. A regulator tells them that investigators and the police will be at their site the next day investigating an incident.