Stephen Garrod and Peter Pickfield are both certified as specialists in environmental law by the Law Society of Upper Canada. They are currently the only lawyers in Ontario, practicing outside the Greater Toronto Area, to have attained this accreditation. Both have extensive experience in assisting municipalities, commercial and industrial businesses, private landowners, community groups and government agencies in addressing a range of environmental law matters including land/groundwater contamination issues, environmental and land use approvals, and expropriations. As adjunct professors at the University of Waterloo and the University of Guelph, lecturing on environmental, municipal and planning law, both Mr. Pickfield and Mr. Garrod teach on the latest developments in their field of expertise.

Stephen Garrod has been practicing exclusively in the areas of environmental law and municipal and planning law since being called to the Bar in 1980. He obtained his law degree at Osgoode Hall Law School and was the first graduate of the combined programs of law and environmental studies at York University in 1978. Stephen has lectured on Environmental and Planning Law as Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo since 1979. Stephen is also an associate of Resolve Mediation Services and provides mediation services in complex multi-party environmental and planning disputes. He frequently speaks at conferences relating to environmental and planning matters and is the co-author of a book entitled "The Regulation of Toxic and Oxidant Air Pollution in North America".

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Peter Pickfield has practiced exclusively in the areas of environmental, municipal and planning law since being called to the Bar in 1986. Mr. Pickfield also obtained his Master of Law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1990.

Mr. Pickfield appears regularly as lead council on hearings before the Environmental Assessment Board, the Environmental Appeal Board, the Ontario Municipal Board and Joint Boards. He holds the position of Adjunct Professor at both the University of Waterloo and the University of Guelph, where he lectures on environmental , municipal and planning law, and is also associate editor of the Canadian Environmental Law Reports. He is the author of Environmental Approvals in Canada, a national reporting service on environmental law.

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