Jill Dougherty

Jill Dougherty is a Partner in the firm’s Regulatory Practice Group. She has over 35 years of experience acting on behalf of both private and public sector clients. Jill appears regularly as counsel before the trial and appellate courts and administrative tribunals in many aspects of public law.

Jill specializes in public law and civil litigation focusing on professional self-regulation and discipline, judicial review of government decision-making, alcohol and gaming, access to information and privacy, and aboriginal land claims. In addition, Jill has broad experience in specialized real estate-related litigation with a public law component, such a litigation concerning controlled access highways, roads, road allowances and beaches. Jill has also acted for a number of municipalities and private sector clients in litigation relating to aboriginal land claims.

Jill has been recognized as a leading practitioner in the Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory. She is also repeatedly recognized as a leading practitioner in Administrative and Public Law in Best Lawyers® in Canada, and in Professional Negligence law in Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2023.

Jill has been an instructor at the Public Law Section of the Bar Admission Course and a contributor to the Course materials. She has acted as an instructor at the Intensive Trial Advocacy and various Advocates’ Society programs and has delivered various papers at seminars and conferences.