Sentences with phrase «aboriginal rights practice»

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Left to right: Elin Sigurdson practices aboriginal and constitutional law at JFK Law Corporation and Katrina Pacey is a partner at Ethos Law Group LLP and the litigation director at Pivot Legal Society.

Pelletier is of the Maliseet First Nation from Nova Scotia whose practice focuses on aboriginal and treaty rights litigation.

First, that aboriginal title encompasses the right to exclusive use and occupation of the land held pursuant to that title for a variety of purposes, which need not be aspects of those aboriginal practices, customs and traditions which are integral to distinctive aboriginal cultures; and second, that those protected uses must not be irreconcilable with the nature of the group's attachment to that land.29

The central principle laid down was, «to be an aboriginal right, an activity must be an element of a practice, custom or tradition integral to the distinctive culture of the aboriginal group claiming the right.»

What of the Chief Justice's caution in Van der Peet: «Courts considering a claim to the existence of an aboriginal right must focus specifically on the practices, customs and traditions of the particular aboriginal group claiming the right»?

In its recent consideration of Canada's periodic report to it, the Human Rights Committee recommended that «the practice of extinguishment of inherent aboriginal rights be abandoned as incompatible with Article1 of the Covenant, [the right of self - determination]&rRights Committee recommended that «the practice of extinguishment of inherent aboriginal rights be abandoned as incompatible with Article1 of the Covenant, [the right of self - determination]&rrights be abandoned as incompatible with Article1 of the Covenant, [the right of self - determination]».