M & E Legal Services Inc.

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Established in 1996, M & E Legal Services Inc. ("MELSI") is the "boutique style" (i.e., small and specialized), sole law practice of Peter A. McInroy, LL.B. Computer technology and software provide the back-up support often provided in the form of staff at other law firms. Research by way of caselaw databases provides more complete and faster results for the client than does the traditional use of articled clerks or paralegals. Lower overheads translate to client benefits in the form of lower fees. MELSI represents certain Nova Scotia municipal units - outside of Metro Halifax- on a regular basis and has represented other municipal units, private sector clients and residents groups in a variety of municipal law or environmental law matters over the past two (2) decades. Areas of special expertise include:
drafting and enforcement of land use legislation and bylaws; drafting of all local government bylaws - including land subdivision; all regulatory and enforcement aspects of the garbage (solid waste) stream; all regulatory and enforcement aspects of the sewage waste stream, including control at source; institutional audit, review and recommendations for proper monitoring and enforcement; and integrated resource management advice - land use, solid waste, conservation areas. Unusual challenges are of special interest to MELSI and Peter A. McInroy. International work started with the contracting by C.I.D.A. in 1990 to assist Indonesia - onsite in Jakarta - in the drafting of that country's first Planning Act, with a particular emphasis on environmental sensitivity. That was followed in 1994 by the concept development, securing of funding and completion - in consort with a consulting engineering firm - of a project to study the possible use of Economic Instruments to control the quality (toxins, chemicals) as well as quantity of sewage discharge at source of the former Town of Bedford, N.S. as a pilot community. MELSI has formed strategic alliances with selected expertise from the consulting engineers, community planners and scientific community in the Halifax area. As well, related legal specialties are available by a simple ‘phone call or fax due to the wide network of legal contacts - both Provincial and National - that Mr. McInroy has built up throughout his career. These connections allow MELSI to respond to a wide variety of legally-related environmental or municipal projects.

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