Expropriation Services
As a team of experienced expropriation lawyers with decades of experience, we offer a variety of services in expropriation matters.
Whether your property or business has been affected by an expropriation, or you are an expropriating authority looking for expertise and insight, our team has the dedicated knowledge and experience to assist.
We act for property owners, business, and tenants who has had their land expropriated or have been impacted by a public works project. We also provide services to expropriating authorities seeking a fair and balanced approach. We effectively combine our expertise in the area of expropriation law with our approach of ensuring expropriated owners are always treated fairly. We approach all matters with a view to resolving disputes promptly and efficiently. Where this cannot be achieved, our team of experienced litigators will continue to strive for a just outcome.
We deliver efficient, compassionate service to our clients, whether through direct representation, mediation services, or consulting and investigation services.
Expropriation services
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Rayman Harris specializes in representing expropriated owners to ensure they are fairly treated and compensated. Rayman Harris’ decades of specialized experience means that they are able to provide efficient and effective representation through all stages of the expropriation process.
Rayman Harris represents owners and tenants in negotiations with expropriating authorities, and through mediation, arbitration, and court procedures as needed to reach a resolution. Our lawyers are skilled negotiators and litigators, who care about the rights of expropriated owners and tenants.
Our approach to all files is to ensure those impacted by the expropriation process are properly represented and are always afforded courteous and reasonable treatment by public entities who can take property without consent. At times this requires skill and tenacity to ensure owners are made whole with full and fair compensation.
If you have been or may be expropriated or impacted by a public works project, contact the lawyers at Rayman Harris today.
For more information, please contact Shane Rayman at (416)-597-5406 / shane@raymanharris.com or Conner Harris at 416-597-5422 / conner@raymanharris.com.
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Based on decades of expertise in expropriations law, the lawyers at Rayman Harris have dealt with a wide variety of complicated or unexpected situations that arise in the land acquisition process. At times, expropriating authorities have engaged the assistance of Rayman Harris to assist with independent investigations and/or internal reviews to address concerns raised by members of the public, elected officials, ombudsmen and/or other entities supervising the land acquisition process.
Rayman Harris provide investigative and reporting services that are strictly confidential and subject to solicitor and client privilege. Even if Rayman Harris represents owners who are adverse to public authorities, it can often manage conflicts in matters where it is not involved to assist in this confidential investigative process.
Rayman Harris can be engaged to complete a thorough investigation of the property, acquisition, expropriation process or related dispute. Our team will conduct an analysis based on the applicable legal factors and factual framework and provides the reporting and recommendations sought to improve processes in the future or ensure internal conduct that accords with applicable legislation.
For more information, please contact Shane Rayman at 416-597-5406 / shane@raymanharris.com or Brynn Leger at 437-222-9003 / brynn@raymanharris.com.
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Rayman Harris is pleased to offer private mediation services to help guide parties engaged in a dispute towards a resolution.
Rayman Harris brings decades of legal and dispute resolution experience to explore creative and practical outcomes to your dispute. We offer mediation for expropriation matters, real property disputes, neighbour and community disputes, as well as commercial and contract disputes. Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss your mediation needs and determine if our team can assist.
Contact Brynn Leger at 437-222-9003 / brynn@raymanharris.com or Shane Rayman at 416-597-5406 / shane@raymanharris.com for more information.
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For over 20 years, the lawyers at Rayman Harris have provided legal services to expropriating authorities to develop and implement a pragmatic and efficient approach to the land acquisition process.
We offer training and skills development for staff and counsel related to all stages of expropriation process and insight into best practices. When engaged on specific matters, our approach is consistent with our practice when representing expropriated owners – to ensure a balanced and transparent process that works towards providing owners with full and fair compensation that accords with applicable legislation.
We also provide in-depth support and representation related to complex property acquisition issues, which may include consultation with staff, owners, and counsel. These services are provided in a manner that avoids conflicts of interest and is focused on special and complicated land acquisitions and expropriations.
Contact Shane Rayman at 416-597-5406 / shane@raymanharris.com or Brynn Leger at 437-222-9003 / brynn@raymanharris.com for more information.