Nicholas Hughes

Mr. Hughes is a senior litigator in McCarthy Tétrault’s Vancouver Office who specializes in regulatory litigation, administrative law, environmental litigation and constitutional litigation primarily in the mining, transportation and industrial sectors, including defending and prosecuting civil claims, acting on appeals and judicial reviews of regulatory decisions, and the defence of clients in regulatory and quasi-criminal prosecutions. He regularly represents client before the Environmental Appeal Board (EAB) and on judicial review applications of regulatory decisions and appeals therefrom. · McCarthy Tétrault

CanadaEnvironmental, Administrative Law

Website

About

Senior litigator at McCarthy Tétrault’s Vancouver office specializing in regulatory litigation, administrative law, environmental litigation and constitutional litigation, primarily in the mining, transportation and industrial sectors. Regularly represents clients before the Environmental Appeal Board and on judicial review applications and appeals of regulatory decisions, and defends clients in regulatory and quasi‑criminal prosecutions.

Practice areas

EnvironmentalAdministrative LawRegulatory LitigationConstitutional Litigation

Office

Canada

McCarthy Tétrault · Mr. Hughes is a senior litigator in McCarthy Tétrault’s Vancouver Office who specializes in regulatory litigation, administrative law, environmental litigation and constitutional litigation primarily in the mining, transportation and industrial sectors, including defending and prosecuting civil claims, acting on appeals and judicial reviews of regulatory decisions, and the defence of clients in regulatory and quasi-criminal prosecutions. He regularly represents client before the Environmental Appeal Board (EAB) and on judicial review applications of regulatory decisions and appeals therefrom.

Canada

Expertise

Mining sectorTransportation sectorIndustrial sectorRepresentation before the Environmental Appeal Board (EAB)Judicial reviews and appeals of regulatory decisionsDefence in regulatory and quasi-criminal prosecutionsDefending and prosecuting civil claims

Admissions

British Columbia Bar, 1990.