Robin J. Gage* Managing Partner

Telephone: 778.557.2405
E-mail: rgage@arvayfinlay.ca Pronouns: she/her/hers Administrative Support: Tiffany Webb (250.380.2788)

Robin has a broad civil litigation practice with a focus on public law including environmental, aboriginal, constitutional, human rights, employment, and administrative law.  Robin has appeared at all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, the BC and Federal Courts of Appeal, the BC Supreme Court, the BC Provincial Court, and before administrative tribunals and arbitrators.  

Robin provides legal advice and services to a broad range of private, public and institutional clients as well as to administrative bodies on matters ranging from private contractual and employment disputes to judicial reviews, and aboriginal, constitutional rights, and human rights matters.

Robin has a passion for issues of equality and social justice, and brings this perspective to her work.

She is a 2001 graduate of the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, and was called to the Bar of the Law Society of British Columbia in 2003 after clerking for the Supreme Court of British Columbia.  As a law student, Robin worked with the law firm Rosenbloom & Aldridge where she worked primarily on aboriginal law and constitutional matters.  Robin then practiced with leading boutique litigation firms Arvay Finlay and Underhill Boies Parker, before becoming a partner in Underhill Gage Litigation and now the managing partner at Arvay Finlay LLP. 

Robin is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Victoria Bar Association. She is the former Chair of the CBABC’s Court Services Committee, and is currently a member of the CBABC’s Access to Justice and Professional Issues Committees as well as the executive of the CBABC’s Women Lawyers Forum – Vancouver Island, and a participant in the CBABC’s Practice Coaches and mentorship programs. She previously chaired the Board of the Capital Families Association and was an associate of the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre. She supports public legal education by speaking to law students, community groups, professional associations and high school students about important legal issues.

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