Michael Manhas is a litigation, administrative law, and regulatory lawyer with a focus on environment, energy, natural resources, economic regulation, and Indigenous law. Michael regularly represents clients before courts in British Columbia and Alberta, and has extensive experience in proceedings before tribunals, including the British Columbia and Alberta Utilities Commissions, Environmental Appeal Board, National Energy Board, Forest Appeals Commission, Canadian Transportation Agency, and British Columbia Ferries Commission. He has experience with contaminated sites litigation, defending environmental tort claims, representing accused individuals and corporations in defending regulatory prosecutions, and judicial review. Michael's tribunal advocacy experience includes defending environmental permits, challenging administrative orders, and representing clients in market design, rates, and cost of capital proceedings in the electricity, oil and gas, and transportation sectors. He regularly advises on regulatory investigations, permitting and permit compliance issues, and transactional liability risks, has significant experience advising public bodies on division of powers issues, and assists clients with forestry, competition, telecommunications and expropriation issues.
