Our Services

Statutory recognition of Traditional Owner rights and responsibilities for cultural heritage is a difficult process. Storey & Ward Lawyers have specialised experience in working within state and commonwealth jurisdictions to achieve formal recognition.

Traditional Owner Corporations can be complex entities, requiring sound governance practice and good business and strategic planning. Storey & Ward Lawyers have extensive experience in navigating this environment to ensure the best possible economic outcomes for Traditional Owners corporations and their members.

Navigating native title processes requires an extensive understanding all areas of statutory land rights. Storey & Ward Lawyers have decades of experience in acting for native title determination applicants and respondents, to realise land justice outcomes.

The developing legal regimes around critical minerals, water, carbon, geothermal, and genetic resources are important to the work of Traditional Owner Corporations. Storey & Ward Lawyers are at the front of policy development and thought leadership around offshore energy and onshore minerals.

As a core element of Native Title processes, mediation is professional assistance for nation building discussions. Storey & Ward Lawyers provide culturally sensitive mediation options to provide native title and community outcomes.

Understanding the jurisdictional levers required to realise Traditional Owner rights is both time and expertise intensive. Storey & Ward Lawyers have active and extensive experience in delivering real policy outcomes at both state and commonwealth levels.