Workplace Accidents and Regulatory Investigations

Gathering Facts and Assisting with Investigations

Peck and Company has been retained by a number of organizations to assist with assessment of regulatory and criminal liability across a variety of sectors and professional environments. Our lawyers highlight the importance of understanding the applicable oversight framework of the respective investigating agency or agencies involved and navigating the intricacies in which any investigation takes place.

Our lawyers prioritize the client’s interests and advise them on how to best cooperate with regulatory or criminal enforcement bodies. In addition to assisting with external investigations, Peck and Company have served as outside counsel in relation to various legal issues, mediating various concerns of parties involved, and pursuing resolution. Our firm’s focus is on gathering the necessary information and effectively identifying the various issues at hand in order to assist with addressing any liability concerns.

Our legal services include interview, document and data review, and analysis of legal issues raised by corporate leadership and senior executives. Peck and Company is committed to providing confidential, reliable and thorough advice in relation to an investigation’s parameters, possible outcomes, and strategies going forward.

Peck and Company lawyers have experience working under the following statutory regimes:

• The Jarvis threshold for administrative versus criminal charges;
• BC Workers Compensation Act investigations;
• BC Mines Act investigations and prosecutions;
• BC Railway Act;
• Canada Income Tax Act;
• Fisheries Act; and
• BC Pharmaceutical Services Act.