Your lawyer to compel or overturn government decisions
Nicholas Pope, administrative law lawyer
I can help with
- Refused applications
- Delayed decisions
- Lost tribunal proceedings
I handle cases of national and public importance
Recent mentions of my work in the media:
Law360 Canada
June 20, 2025
Federal Court of Appeal overturns denial of psilocybin exemptions for health care practitioners
CBC News
June 19, 2025
Federal court rules Health Canada decision to block experiential psilocybin training was unreasonable
Law360 Canada
June 19, 2025
FCA sets aside decision that declared Ottawa must fill judicial vacancies ‘within a reasonable time’
I have experience with a wide range of matters
- Decisions and inaction by cabinet ministers
- Special Access Program requests
- CDSA s. 56(1) exemptions
- Parole Board decisions
- Prisoner transfer decisions
- Canadian Human Rights Commission
- Public Sector Integrity Commissioner
- Citizenship applications
- And more...
Problems I can address:
- Charter violations
- Failure to grapple with arguments made
- Failure to account for evidence
- Statutory interpretation errors
- Logical errors
- Unexplained departure from precedent
- Reliance on policy rather than law
- Unreasonable delay
- Procedural unfairness