Justice Myers finds $510 million payout ‘was not the deal’ – Anishinabek News

November 6, 2025

How can a non-Indigenous judge tell Anishinabek people that they are not allowed to pay their Anishinabek lawyers the money they want to pay them, and that they believe a Pipe Ceremony has honour bound them to pay? In his 63-page judgement reviewing the fees claimed by the Legal Team of Nahwegahbow Corbiere for their work in the Robinson Huron Treaty Litigation Ontario Superior Court Justice Fred Myers suggests that neither Canadian or Anishinabek law left him any alternative.

Justice Myers has ordered that the Legal Team, who were paid $17 million before the settlement amount of $10 billion was determined, should be paid an additional $23 million for a total of around $40 million in recognition of the Legal Team’s “great legal work” representing their clients “zealously, resolutely, passionately and with extraordinary success.”

The Judge has ordered Nahwegahbow Corbiere to refund $232 million of the fees they have been paid to the Robinson Huron Treaty Litigation Fund (hereafter “The Fund”) and ordered the Fund to treat a $255 million gift it has received from the Legal Team as “regular settlement proceeds.”