Regulated Professionals and Freedom of Expression
Fred is a sought-after strategic legal advisor with over 40 years of experience.
Fred carries on a civil litigation practice with an emphasis on constitutional law, media and defamation issues, and employment and administrative proceedings.
Fred represents several national news organizations, and provides pre-publication advice to print, broadcast and web-based media outlets, as well as book publishers. Fred has been counsel in several cases where the Charter has been used to strike down provincial or federal legislation, and has appeared in all levels of the courts of Alberta and in the Supreme Court of Canada.
Fred’s major media clients include
- Edmonton Journal
- CBC
- Globe and Mail
- CTV
- National Post
- Canadian Press
- Broadcast News
- Lethbridge Herald
- Medicine Hat News
- Post Media
- Great West Newspaper Group
Fred has also taught at MacEwan University on law and the media as well as on employment law at the University of Alberta.
Education
University of Alberta, BA
University of Alberta, LL.B.
Bar Admission
Alberta, 1982
Northwest Territories, 2009
Yukon, 2010
