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Matthew Woodley

Matt provides advice to a wide range of organizations including employers, print and broadcast media organizations, post-secondary institutions, municipalities and professional regulatory bodies. He is admitted to the bar in Alberta, Yukon and the Northwest Territories.

Matt focuses on human resource, free expression, constitutional, and administrative law. Matt has appeared at all levels of Court in Alberta on matters ranging from the constitutional right to equality, to free expression in the media and on post-secondary campuses, open courts, and privacy law. He has appeared as counsel before the Yukon Court of Appeal on a matter relating to media law, and before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in a case involving defamation. Matt has also appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada in a matter involving a constitutional challenge to a publication ban.

Matt clerked with the Alberta Court of Appeal and Court of Queen’s Bench before articling with RMRF. He also taught Communications Law at MacEwan University for 10 years, and provides pro-bono services to the Edmonton Community Legal Centre and the Civil Claims Duty Counsel Project.

Contact Info

(780) 497-3307
(780) 429-3044
Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer LLP Stantec Tower Suite 1800-10220 103 Avenue NW Edmonton, AB T5J 0K4