Gordon Scott Campbell

Gordon is the Senior Barrister of Aubry Campbell MacLean. With his over three decades of legal practice, he's successfully conducted hundreds of trials and appeals up to the level of the Supreme Court of Canada. He offers clients creative and effective solutions to their contentious legal challenges, both in and out of court, and advises on public law and professional conduct matters.

Gordon conducts an Indigenous and Aboriginal law practice throughout Canada focusing on Indigenous peoples’ litigation and negotiation issues, including s. 35 Constitution Act, 1982 Aboriginal and treaty rights cases, Comprehensive, Specific and Special claims, and consultation & accommodation involving development projects. His precedent-setting Indigenous rights cases and negotiations have attracted national attention. He served as an Indigenous claims negotiator with Indigenous & Northern Affairs Canada in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Atlantic Canada, and as legal counsel with the Department of Justice Canada on Indigenous and Aboriginal rights, treaty and title issues.

Gordon has acted on cases from first-degree murder, to drug importation conspiracies, to complex frauds. He built his criminal and regulatory courtroom experience serving as a Federal Crown Prosecutor in five provinces and one territory, as Criminal-Constitutional Issues Coordinator for Justice Canada's Ontario Regional Office, and as a provincial offences prosecutor. He’s author of The Investigator's Legal Handbook series of books and has spent many years training criminal and regulatory investigators on the legal requirements of their jobs.

Gordon represents clients in civil and administrative litigation appellate and trial proceedings throughout Ontario. He also appears on federal matters throughout Canada for claims involving the Government of Canada or other matters of Federal jurisdiction. He's results-oriented in achieving optimal outcomes for clients in settling their disputes at expenditures proportionate to the value of civil claims.