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Biographical Summaries for Program Faculty

[In Alphabetical Order]

THE SIX-MINUTE Administrative Lawyer 2017

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KARIM BENYEKHLEF

Karim Benyekhlef has been a professor in the Faculty of Law at the Université de Montréal since 1989. He has been seconded to the Centre de recherche en droit public since 1990 and served as its Director from 2006 to 2014. He was also the Director of the Regroupement stratégique Droit, changements et gouvernance (Strategic Law, Change and Governance Group), which brings together some 50 researchers, from 2006 to 2014. At the same time, he was the Scientific Director of the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM – the Université de Montréal’s International Research and Study Centre) from 2009 to 2012. He is now the Director of the Cyberjustice Laboratory, which he founded in 2010. The Cyberjustice Laboratory has obtained in 2015 the award «Mérite Innovation» from the Bar of Quebec. He holds the Chaire de recherche en information juridique Lexum (Lexum Research Chair on Legal Information) and serves as a member of CÉRIUM’s science and advisory committees. He received in 2016 from the Bar of Quebec the distinction Advocatus Emeritus.

Member of the Barreau du Québec (Québec Bar Association) since 1985, he practiced in the federal Department of Justice from 1986 to 1989. His teaching and research areas are constitutional law (human rights and freedoms), international law, information technologies law, legal theory and history of law. In 1995, Professor Benyekhlef founded the electronic law journal Lex Electronica, the very first French-language online law journal.

He also initiated the first online dispute resolution projects (the CyberTribunal Project, 1996-1999; eResolution, 1999-2001; ECODIR, 2000-today). He now serves as Director of the Cyberjustice Laboratory, the work of which is designed to increase and facilitate access to justice, and he leads an international team made up of some 30 researchers from over 23 different universities in Canada, the United States, Australia and Europe: Rethinking Procedural Law: Towards Cyberjustice, a project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada in the context of the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI) Program. He has also participated in developing good governance programs in Africa and the Caribbean (through the Canadian International Development Agency, the United Nations and the European Commission).

With Professor Fabien Gélinas of McGill University’s Faculty of Law, he is the author of Le règlement en ligne des conflits. Enjeux de la cyberjustice (Paris: Éditions Romillat, 2003), and in 2008 he published Une possible histoire de la norme. Les normativités émergentes de la mondialisation, (Éditions Thémis). The latter was awarded the Prix de la Fondation du Barreau du Québec in 2009. In 2013, he edited a collective work entitled Governance and Risk. The Challenges of Global Regulation., published by Éditions

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Thémis. His most recent work, Vers un droit global? (Towards Global Law?), is a collective work published in 2016, also by Éditions Thémis.

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Jeff G. Cowan

Jeff Cowan, a litigation partner at WeirFoulds LLP, appears before administrative tribunals and

the trial and appellate courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, in many aspects of public

and real estate law. He is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School, and completed postgraduate

legal studies both there and at Oxford University. He is recognised as a leader in his practice

areas by Lexpert, Best Lawyers in Canada, and Martindale Hubbell Ratings. Jeff’s practice

includes professional self-regulation and discipline, judicial review of government decision-

making, freedom of information and privacy matters, municipal and provincial planning and

environmental approvals, municipal assessment and taxation, legislative drafting and

government relations, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In addition, Jeff

litigates in matters relating to real property, including purchase and sale disputes, lease and

contract interpretation, expropriation, valuation, taxation, boundary and ownership issues,

aboriginal land claims, and arbitration proceedings, including acting as an arbitrator and

mediator.. He was Head of the Public Law Section of the Law Society’s Bar Admission course

for most of its duration, a director of the Advocates’ Society, Chair of the Administrative Law

Section of the OBA, and has taught in the Osgoode Hall Law School LLM programme. He is a

recipient of the Ontario Society of Adjudicators and Regulators Medal for service to the

administrative justice system of Ontario. He is co-editor of Ontario Annual Practice and a

member of the Secretariat of the Civil Rules Committee.

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Dr. Paul Daly

Dr. Paul Daly is University Senior Lecturer in Public Law, University of Cambridge and the Derek Bowett Fellow in Law at Queens' College, Cambridge. He came to Cambridge from the University of Montreal, where he was successively Assistant Professor, Associate Dean and Associate Professor, having previously worked at the University of Ottawa and Lerners LLP, Toronto.

His award-winning scholarship in the broad field of public law (especially administrative law) has appeared in leading academic journals and edited collections and has been frequently cited by courts, most notably the Supreme Court of Canada and the Irish Supreme Court.

Fluent in English and French, he is a regular speaker at academic conferences, judicial and administrative training seminars and continuing legal education events.

He maintains an internationally read blog on his website, Administrative Law Matters, and regularly speaks to the media. His input on legal matters of great public importance has been sought by parliamentary committees, governmental agencies, political aides and a wide variety of lawyers in public and private practice.

In addition to his academic work, Dr. Daly is the co-founder of Navigate.Legal, a legal analytics consulting firm.

Enquiries are encouraged from students interested in pursuing graduate studies in public law, especially administrative law.

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M. Jill Dougherty: People : WeirFoulds

M. Jill Dougherty

Lawyer Direct 416.947.5058 Fax 416.365.1876 [email protected]

Practice Areas Litigation

Government

Property

Called to the Bar Ontario (1986)

Education Osgoode Hall Law School LL.B. 1984

Clerkship (Ontario High Court of Justice) (1986-1987)

Jill Dougherty has 30 years of experience acting on behalf of both private and public sector clients. She appears regularly as counsel before the trial and appellate courts and administrative tribunals in many aspects of public law. Jill specializes in public law and civil litigation focusing on professional self-regulation and discipline (including regulation of participants in the horse racing industry), judicial review of government decision-making, alcohol and gaming and access to information and privacy. Jill has acted on judicial review applications, appeals, mediations, arbitrations, administrative tribunal hearings and court proceedings on behalf of a variety of government agencies, tribunals and professional regultory bodies.

Jill has been an instructor at the Public Law Section of the Bar Admission Course and a contributor to the Course materials. She has acted as an instructor at the Intensive Trial Advocacy and various Advocates' Society and Law Society of Upper Canada programs and has delivered various papers at seminars and conferences.

She is recognized as a leading practitioner in Administrative Law in Best Lawyers in Canada and as a leading practitioner in the Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory.

Notable Mandates For the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers and the College of Early Childhood Educators in respect of discipline prosecutions and judicial review applications.

For the LCBO in its litigation with the Information and Privacy Commissioner on Ontario, and with Magnotta Winery Corporation and related Magnotta companies.

For the Law Society of Upper Canada, in proceedings before the Compensation Fund Committee and on a related judical review application

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M. Jill Dougherty: People : WeirFoulds regarding access to the Law Society’s Compensation Fund.

For the Ontario Racing Commission in judicial reviews regarding decisions of the Commission on various issues.

For the Social Benefits Tribunal in respect of appeals and judicial review applications to the Ontario Divisional Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the Social Benefits Tribunal's jurisdiction to deal with challenges to its legislation under the Ontario Human Rights Code.

For Great Canadian Gaming Corporation in litigation, arbitration and mediation with the Ontario Harness Horse Association regarding various Ontario racetrack and gaming operations.

For Racetracks of Ontario in a series of mediations with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation regarding the slots in racetracks program.

For the AMOCO in litigation by the Chippewas of Sarnia Band, claiming ownership of a large tract of areas of land in the City of Sarnia.

Reported Cases Toronto Distillery Co. v. Ontario (Alcohol and Gaming Commission) [2016] O.J. No. 1775; 2016 ONSC 2202; 130 O.R. (3d) 612

Ontario (Liquor Control Board) v. Vin De Garde Wine Club [2015] O.J. No. 2225; 2015 ONSC 2537; 335 O.A.C. 90; 100 Admin. L.R. (5th) 349; 253 A.C.W.S. (3d) 720; 2015 CarswellOnt 6360

Magnotta Winery Corp. v. Ontario (Alcohol and Gaming Commission) [2015] O.J. No. 5424; 2015 ONSC 6234; 259 A.C.W.S. (3d) 73; 341 O.A.C. 42; 2015 CarswellOnt 15839

El-Hennawy v. Law Society of Upper Canada [2014] O.J. No. 395; 2014 ONSC 375; 316 O.A.C. 260

Lackner v. Hall (2013), 15 M.P.L.R. (5th) 16 (Ont. C.A.).

Tiny (Township) v. Battaglia (2013), 10 M.P.L.R. (5th) 182 (Ont. C.A.).

2169205 Ontario Inc. (c.o.b. Lefroy Freshmart) v Ontario (Liquor Control Board) (2011), 23 Admin. L.R. (5th) 335 (Ont. Sup. Ct.).

Liquor Control Board of Ontario v. Magnotta Winery Corp. (2010), 102 O.R. (3d) 545 (C.A.).

Barnes v. Ontario (Social Benefits Tribunal) (2009), 96 Admin. L.R. (4th) 243

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M. Jill Dougherty: People : WeirFoulds (Ont. Sup. Ct.).

Tranchemontagne v. Ontario (Director, Disability Support Program), [2006] 1 S.C.R. 513.

Werbeski v. Ontario (Director of Disability Support Program Ministry of Community & Social Services), 2006 SCC 14.

Silverthorne v. College of Social Workers & Social Service Workers (Ontario) (2006), 264 D.L.R. (4th) 175 (Ont. Sup. Ct. J. (Div. Ct.)).

Tranchemontagne v. Ontario (Director, Disability Support Program) (2004), 72 O.R. (3d) 457 (C.A.).

Werbeski v. Ontario (Director of Disability Support Program, Ministry of Community & Social Services) (2004), 244 D.L.R. (4th) 118 (Ont. C.A.).

Robinson v. Ontario Racing Commission (2004), 186 O.A.C. 43 (Ont. Sup. Ct. J. (Div. Ct.)).

Megens v. Ontario Racing Commission (2003), 176 O.A.C. 296 (Ont. Sup. Ct. J. (Div. Ct.)).

Ontario (Ministry of Transportation) v. Grey Stone Building Centres (2001), 41 O.M.B.R. 449.

Chippewas of Sarnia Band v. Canada (Attorney General) (1999), 40 R.P.R. (3d) 49 (Ont. Sup. Ct. J.).

Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation v. Keppel (Township) (1998), 164 D.L.R. (4th) 511 (Ont. C.A.).

Chippewas of Sarnia Band v. Canada (Attorney General) (1996), 138 D.L.R. (4th) 574 (Ont. Ct. J. (Gen. Div.)).

Chippewas of Sarnia Band v. Canada (Attorney General) (1996), 29 O.R. (3d) 549 (Ont. Ct. J. (Gen. Div.)).

Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation v. Keppel (Township) (1994), 117 D.L.R. (4th) 419 (Ont. Gen. Div.).

Bramalea Ltd. v. Ontario (Ministry of Transportation & Communications) (1992), 47 L.C.R. 239 (Ont. Ct. J. (Gen. Div. Div. Ct.)).

Ontario (Ministry of Community and Social Services, Director of Income Maintenance Branch) v. Conway (1990), 75 D.L.R. (4th) 564 (Ont. Ct. J. (Gen. Div. Div. Ct.)).

Bramalea v. Ontario (Ministry of Transportation & Communications) (1989),

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M. Jill Dougherty: People : WeirFoulds 42 L.C.R. 44 (OMB).

Tarailo v. Allied Chemical Canada Ltd. (1989), 68 O.R. (2d) 288 (Ont. S.C.).

Publications Duty to consult with First Nations: A municipal obligation?, WeirFoulds LLP - Government Update, January 2008

Speaking Engagements Speaker, Developments in Fitness to Practise and Screening Committee Processes, WeirFoulds, Toronto, November 24, 2016 Speaker, "Stretching Out The Why and the How of a Flexible Compliance & Discipline Regime", Canadian Network of Agencies for Regulation Conference, Toronto, November 2-3, 2016 Speaker, "Orders and Costs in an Age of Transparency", (CLEAR) 2016 Annual Educational Conference, Portland, September 15-16, 2016 "Discipline Orders and Costs in the Transparency Era", WeirFoulds LLP, Toronto, February 19, 2016 Co-presenter, "What do Risk Managers Need to Know about the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA)?", Canadian Healthcare Risk Management Network, Annual Conference, Toronto, October 24, 2011.

Speaker, "Stretching Out The Why and the How of a Flexible Compliance & Discipline Regime", Canadian Network of Agencies for Regulation Conference, Toronto, November 2-3, 2016

Speaker, "Orders and Costs in an Age of Transparency", (CLEAR) 2016 Annual Educational Conference, Portland, September 15-16, 2016

"Discipline Orders and Costs in the Transparency Era", WeirFoulds LLP, Toronto, February 19, 2016

Co-presenter, "What do Risk Managers Need to Know about the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA)?", Canadian Healthcare Risk Management Network, Annual Conference, Toronto, October 24, 2011.

Co-presenter, "What do Risk Managers Need to Know about the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA)?", Canadian Healthcare Risk Management Network, Annual Conference, Toronto, October 24, 2011.

"Penalties", Fundamentals of Administrative Law & Practice, The Canadian Institute, Toronto, April 19–20, 2010.

"Aboriginal Claims Relating to Shorelines, Shore Road Allowances, Lake Beds and Riparian Rights", Riparian Rights and Property, Ontario Bar Association,

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M. Jill Dougherty: People : WeirFoulds Toronto, March 24, 2010.

"Privilege and Open Government: Either/Or?", The Six-Minute Administrative Lawyer, The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, February 23, 2010.

"An Introduction to Decision Making and Reasons for Decision", Decision Writing, The Canadian Institute, Toronto, February 3 and 4, 2010.

Assisted Derry Millar (together with April Brousseau and Tiffany Tsun) with presentation "Reconciling Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Land Disputes and Natural Resource Management", 8th Annual Aboriginal Law Conference, Insight, Toronto, October 26–27, 2009.

Guest Instructor, Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop, Professional Development, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, July 5–12, 2009.

"Penalties", Fundamentals of Administrative Law & Practice, The Canadian Institute, Toronto, April 24, 2009.

"An Introduction to Decision Making and Reasons for Decisions for Members of Administrative Tribunals", Decision Writing, The Canadian Institute, Toronto, March 30 and 31, 2009.

"Standard of Proof and Sanctions in the Professional Discipline Context", The Six-Minute Administrative Lawyer, Ontario Bar Association, Toronto, February 24, 2009.

"Municipalities, Land Development and the Duty to Consult", Aboriginal Law Consultation and Accommodation Conference, The Canadian Institute, Toronto, February 19, 2009. "Enhancing Your Administrative Advocacy Skills", The 4th Annual National Forum: Administrative Law & Practice, Osgoode Hall Law School (2008).

"Refresh and Renew-Evidence Law", Licence Appeal Tribunal/Ontario Bar Association (2008).

"Perception or Reality-Is There Institutional Bias in the Discipline Process", CLEAR 2008 Annual Conference.

"Appellate Factum Writing and Argument", Brown Bag Series, The Advocates' Society (2007).

"Penalties", Fundamentals of Administrative Law & Practice, The Canadian Institute (2005 to 2007).

Guest Lecturer, Access to Information and Privacy Under FIPPA, University of Western Ontario Law School (2006).

Panellist, Administrative Law-Expertise of Tribunals: The Key to Deference,

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M. Jill Dougherty: People : WeirFoulds Ontario Bar Association (2005 to present).

"Characteristics of Professional Boundaries", Professional Regulation Summit, Enforcement and Compliance, Acuity Forums (2005).

Instructor, Managing Your Legal Risks and Responsibilities within Ontario's Self-Regulated Professions, Healthcare-Teaching-Social Work, The Canadian Institute (2005).

Instructor, Training for Immigration and Refugee Board Members regarding Questioning Skills, The Advocates' Society (2003).

Instructor, Civil Litigation Skills Certificate Program: Cross-Examination, Impeachment & Rehabilitation on Re-Examination, The Advocates' Society (2003).

Awards & Recognition Recognized as a leading practitioner in Administrative Law in the Best Lawyers in Canada. Recognized as a leading practitioner in the Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory Professional Activities 2006–2016: Guest Lecturer, CLEAR Annual Conference on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation.

2005–2007: Co-chair, Advocates' Society Courthouse Series.

2004–2009: Instructor, The Advocates' Society Special Litigation Skills Certificate Program.

2002–2009: Instructor, Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop, Osgoode Hall Law School.

1986-1987: Clerkship, High Court of Justice, Supreme Court of Ontario.

Affiliations Ontario Bar Association

The Advocates' Society

Metro Toronto Law Association

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BRIAN GOVER was called to the Bar in 1983 and began his career with the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, Crown Law Office – Criminal, where his practice included representing the Crown in the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada, and conducting special prosecutions. Between 1991 and 1993, Brian was Executive Legal Officer to what is now known as the Superior Court of Justice. Since 1994, he has been a partner in Stockwoods LLP, conducting a varied litigation practice that spans civil and criminal litigation as well as regulatory and administrative law. As part of his administrative law practice, Brian leads the firm’s tribunal advisory practice and is counsel to the discipline and fitness to practice committees at numerous professional regulators. He also has extensive experience in commissions of inquiry and inquests. Brian has been an adjunct professor of law at Western University (1998-2002) and Osgoode Hall Law School (2009-2012) and an instructor at the Trial Practice course at Osgoode Hall Law School (2004-2008). He is a fellow of both the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

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Margaret Leighton

Margaret Leighton directs the delivery of legal services to the 8 tribunals within

the Social Justice Tribunals Ontario cluster and regularly appears on behalf of

the SJTO tribunals before the Divisional Court and in the Ontario Court of

Appeal. After undergrad at UBC and a legislative internship in Victoria, Margaret

headed east for grad school and law school at U of T. In her life before the SJTO

Margaret was counsel to a variety of administrative boards and tribunals

including the Pay Equity Hearings Tribunal, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario,

Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Board of the Alcohol and Gaming

Commission of Ontario. Between 2003 and 2006 Margaret sat on the

Immigration and Refugee Board and now sits as a lawyer member of the Law

Society Tribunal. Margaret is editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of

Administrative Law and Practice and is a regular contributor to legal education

and professional development programmes. At present her two greatest delights

are applauding her actress daughter’s performances and cheering her coxswain

daughter’s races with the UBC Thunderbirds varsity crew.

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Janet Leiper, LL.B., LL.M., C.S. Barrister & Solicitor

Janet Leiper practises law in the province of Ontario and is based in Toronto. Her practice blends professional and public sector regulation, criminal and administrative law. She is an elected bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, a Commissioner with the Ontario Securities Commission and an Alternate Chair with the Ontario and Nunavut Review Boards. Ms. Leiper served as the City of Toronto Integrity Commissioner from 2009-2014. Since then she has provided investigative/ethical policy services to institutions involved with police oversight, school boards and municipal councils in Ontario. She is a writer and lecturer on matters of substantive and procedural law, ethics, regulation, mental health law and policy, evidence and Charter/constitutional law.

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NICHOLAS MCHAFFIE is a litigation partner in the Ottawa office of Stikeman Elliott LLP, with a primary focus on administrative/regulatory, intellectual property and commercial matters. He has appeared before Canadian courts at all levels, as well as before numerous administrative tribunals including the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, Competition Tribunal, Copyright Board, Trade-marks Opposition Board and Patented Medicine Prices Review Board. Mr. McHaffie taught Administrative Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law for a number of years as a part-time professor (2003-2007) and previously taught Civil Trial Advocacy at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law (2000-2003). Mr. McHaffie sits on the Editorial Board of the Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Review, is recognized by Benchmark Canada as a “Litigation Star” in Intellectual Property, and was awarded Benchmark Canada’s 2015 White Collar Crime / Enforcement / Constitutional Litigator of the Year award. He earned his LL.B. in 1994 from the University of British Columbia, and his B.Sc. (Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biology) in 1990 from the University of Toronto. Mr. McHaffie clerked for the Right Honourable Madam Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1994-1995.

Email: [email protected] Telephone: (613) 566-0546

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E. Ann McRae – biographical note- 2017 prepared for the Six Minute Administrative Lawyer Program B.A. (1975, University of Toronto), LL.B. (1978, University of Windsor) Ann McRae has practised law in a variety of settings since being called to the bar and becoming a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1980. She began in general practice in a rural area of Manitoba, and since then has been in general practice in Hamilton, Burlington, Sault Ste Marie and Toronto. Her areas of law, before joining the legal aid clinic system in 2000, were mainly family law and immigration. Since 2000 she has been associated with the Rexdale Community Legal Clinic in Toronto, first as a staff lawyer and currently as the Legal Director of a staff of fifteen which includes lawyers, community legal workers and paralegals and others. In 2009 she took a secondment to Legal Aid Ontario, working in administration of legal clinics in the Toronto area. For more than two years she was also the project lead on a partnership initiative between Legal Aid Ontario and Humber College in Toronto. The project sought to expand Legal Aid Ontario’s use of paralegals in all aspects of its service delivery. At Rexdale Community Legal Clinic she works with Legal Aid Ontario partners to expand the scope of legal services to include family law, as well as the clinic’s usual services. Recently the clinic launched new initiatives shared with partner clinics and other agencies, to expand services in employment law, immigration law and services to those with intersecting legal and health problems. Students of law, paralegal studies and social work are integrated into Rexdale’s services wherever possible. Ann is currently the chair of the board of Rexdale Community Hub, the organization that manages the hub facility. She is interested in the theory and practical management of hubs.

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Stephen Moreau

Stephen is a partner at Cavalluzzo Shilton McIntyre & Cornish and a member of the firm's litigation, administrative law, class action, employment, and labour groups. He provides client service in both French and English. His practice focuses primarily on employment law, administrative law, civil litigation, class actions, and in assisting numerous unions, employees, and administrative agencies with litigation before courts, arbitrators, and numerous tribunals and agencies. In addition to extensive appearances before arbitrators, mediators, and other tribunals, he has appeared in all level of courts in Ontario, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada.

Recently, Stephen has engaged in extensive and successful pro bono litigation involving employment insurance benefits and is now recognized as a leader in this field, resulting in a significant and novel class action alleging negligent administration of the EI sickness benefits regime for claimants on parental leave. In recognition of this expertise, Stephen testified in 2012 before a Parliamentary and Senate committee considering major reforms to the EI special benefits regime. Stephen volunteers his time for Multiple Births Canada as a member of its Advisory Board, as an advisor on employment insurance.

Stephen obtained an LL.B. at the University of Manitoba (Gold Medal). While a student, he worked for Legal Aid and was an Associate Editor of the Manitoba Law Journal. He articled with the firm of Taylor McCaffrey in Winnipeg and, after completing his articles, Stephen clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for Madam Justices L'Heureux-Dubé and Deschamps. He was subsequently employed as Legal Counsel at the Law Branch of the Supreme Court, where he advised the Justices of the Court on leave to appeal applications. The following year, Stephen won a SSHRC Graduate Fellowship to study public law, human rights, and the Charter through the pursuit of a thesis-based LLM at the University of Toronto.

Stephen is a member of the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations, the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers, the Advocates Society, and the Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario. He sits on the CBA Federal Court of Appeal & Federal Court Labour Law, Human Rights, Pension Benefits, Privacy and Access Review Liaison Committee.

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2016 Media Bio – Scott Robertson

Scott Robertson regularly advises clients on Aboriginal, Treaty rights and title issues as well as tax and business structures. Scott has extensive experience advising clients on the Crown’s duty to consult and accommodate Aboriginal peoples. He has successfully represented clients at the Supreme Court, Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal, Ontario Court of Appeal, Ontario Energy Board, National Energy Board and the Human Rights Tribunal.

He received his LLB from the University of Ottawa and also has a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton University and Bachelor of Education from Queen’s. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2007.

Scott is currently the Vice President of the Indigenous Bar Association and a member of the Advocate’s Society.

Scott is a Haudenosaunee from the Six Nations of the Grand River. In his limited spare time Scott enjoys playing hockey and somewhat playing golf.

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Linda R. Rothstein, LSM Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLPTel: (416) 646-4327 Fax: (416) 646-4301 E-mail: [email protected]

Partner of Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP, one of Ontario’s top litigation boutiques. Linda has a diverse practise encompassing many areas of civil and administrative litigation with particular expertise in class actions, commercial litigation, professional liability, public law and appeals. Linda was Commission Counsel to the Goudge Inquiry (2007–2008), lead counsel to the City of Toronto in the Computer Leasing Inquiry (2002–2005) and lead counsel to the Motherisk Hair Analysis Review (2015-2016). She is a Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; Fellow and Board Member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers; Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America; Chair, Law Foundation of Ontario Board of Trustees (2016); Member, Public Health Ontario Board of Directors (2014 – Present); Director, The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History (2015 - Present), Trustee, Harold G. Fox Education Fund (2013 - Present). She was Toronto Regional Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada (2007-2015); Past President of The Advocates’ Society (2005-2006); Co-author of Lawyers’ Professional Liability 3rd ed. (LexisNexis Canada, 2013) and “Professional Liability” (ch. 9) in D. Lundy, G. MacKenzie and M. Newbury, Barristers & Solicitors in Practice, (Butterworths, 1998). Recipient of the prestigious Law Society Medal (2005), the Award of Distinction from the Toronto Lawyers’ Association(2008), the Lexpert Zenith Award (2013), University of Toronto Distinguished Alumnus Award (2014) and one of the top 25 women in Litigation in Canada by Benchmark (2014). Repeatedly selected by the Best Lawyers in Canada in four litigation specialties: Bet-the-Company Litigation, Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Administrative and Public Law and Labour and Employment Law.

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Lorne Sossin is a Professor and Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, at York University. He is a former Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Dean Sossin was a law clerk to former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada, a former Associate in Law at Columbia Law School and a former litigation lawyer. He holds doctorates from the University of Toronto in Political Science and from Columbia University in Law.

Dean Sossin has published numerous books, journal articles, reviews and essays, including Boundaries of Judicial Review: The Law of Justiciability in Canada 2md ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2012) and The Future of Judicial Independence (Toronto: Irwin, 2010) (co-edited with Adam Dodek). He serves on a number of Boards including the National Judicial Institute and the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice. 

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The Honourable David W. Stratas LL.B. (Queen’s University, 1984); B.C.L. (Oxford University, 1986); LL.D. (Queen’s University, 2012, honoris causa). Born in Toronto, Ontario. Law clerk to Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada (1986-1987). Called to the Bar of Ontario (1988). Litigation partner in firms in Toronto, Ontario. Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (2008). Appointed Special Advocate by the Minister of Justice (2008). Adjunct member, Faculty of Law, Queen's University (1994 to the present), winning multiple faculty teaching awards. Author of over 120 articles or conference papers on various legal topics, particularly in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law, and legal writing. Appointed Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal, and a member ex officio of the Federal Court on December 11, 2009. Appointed Judge of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada, May 3, 2012. Address: Federal Court of Appeal, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0H9.

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Rebecca Stulberg Rebecca is the Project Manager and Legal Content Developer for CLEO’s Steps to Justice website. In this role Rebecca oversees the drafting and legal review of Steps to Justice content, maintains relationships with contributing organizations, and helps to manage the direction of the project as a whole. Before joining CLEO, Rebecca spent four years working in employment, labour and human rights law at a Toronto firm. Her practice included representing clients in grievance arbitrations and mediations, wrongful dismissal and discrimination claims, and in professional misconduct and capacity matters. Rebecca has also held positions with the Ministry of Labour- Legal Services Branch, the Ontario Labour Relations Board, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the University of Ottawa Community Legal Aid Clinic, and the Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre.