Toby Kruger

Practice Areas

Energy; Environmental & Regulatory; Indigenous Law; Litigation & Dispute Resolution; Mining; Northern Canada.

Career

Toby Kruger advises private and public sector clients on litigation and regulatory matters. He provides advice on environmental, energy, mining, land, construction, public utility and Indigenous law issues. Based in Yellowknife, Toby advises clients throughout western Canada and the North, including all three Territories. Toby also provides strategic advice to government and private sector proponents on public law and project matters, including environmental assessment, consultation with Indigenous peoples, and regulatory permitting. Toby also has an interest in defamation law, in that it poses a limitation on freedom of speech.

Toby also appears before courts, tribunals and arbitration panels to assist his clients in government and the electricity, mining and oil & gas industries in administrative hearings, judicial review, trial, appellate and arbitration proceedings. He has appeared as counsel before various administrative tribunals, superior courts, appellate courts, and three times before the Supreme Court of Canada.

Toby is a member of the bars of Yukon (2019), Alberta (2015), Northwest Territories (2014), and Nunavut (2014).

Professional Memberships

Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories Rules Committee; Canadian Bar Association of Northwest Territories - Member of Environmental, Energy and Resources law and Aboriginal law subsections; Appointed as NWT Representative to roster of dispute resolution panelists under the Canada Free Trade Agreement; Law Society of Northwest Territories Admissions Committee