CV

EDUCATION

1970           Waterloo Lutheran University

1972           B.A., University of Toronto

1975           LL.B. Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

1977           Called to the Bar of the Province of Ontario
............................................................................................................................................................................................

PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY - OVERVIEW

1975 - 76	Articled to Ian Scott at the firm then known as Cameron, Brewin and Scott in Toronto

1977 - 78	Associate with the law firm of Jaffary & Turner, Toronto

1978 - 79	Maintained private office for the practice of law devoted primarily to employment, civil, criminal and family litigation

1979 - 84	Member of the Faculty of Osgoode Hall Law School with responsibility as: - Counsel for the Community and Legal Aid Services Program - Lecturer in Civil Procedure and Trial Advocacy

1984 to date	Arbitrator and Mediator (see details below)

1991 – 97	Chair, Education and Colleges Relations Commissions

1999 to date	Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

2007-2008	Director, Arbitrator Development Program, with the Ontario Ministry of Labour
............................................................................................................................................................................................

ARBITRATION and MEDIATION EXPERIENCE

Full-time Arbitrator and Mediator in the public and private sectors, including several appointments to permanent panels -1984 to date
Roster Mediator, Ontario Mandatory Mediation Program – 1999 to October 2002
Referee under the Employment Standards Act, 1984 -1990
Sitting on a Board of Inquiry hearing cases under the Ontario Human Rights Code
Factfinder, Mediator and Arbitrator for the Education and Colleges Relations Commissions, 1979 – 1988

............................................................................................................................................................................................

TRIBUNAL, PROJECT and ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, teaching the Labour Arbitration Seminar, coaching moots and supervising graduate theses, 1999 to date
Director, Ontario Arbitrator Development Program, 2007-2008
Chair, Education Relations Commission of Ontario, 1991-1997
Chair, Colleges Relations Commission of Ontario, 1991-1997
Vice-Chair (Part-Time), Ontario Labour Relations Board, 1984 -1997
Vice-Chair, Public Service Grievance Settlement Board, 1984 to date
Member of the Task Force recommending revisions to Part One of the Canada Labour Code, appointed by the Federal Minster of Labour, 1995 – 1996
Chair, Ontario Motor Vehicle Arbitration Plan, 1990 – 1994

............................................................................................................................................................................................

PUBLICATIONS

1993	Labour Arbitration Yearbook: Lancaster House “Classification Disputes at Arbitration”
1996	Seeking a Balance: Review of Part One of the Canada Labour Code Co-Authored with Andrew Sims and Rodrique Blouin
2000	Book Review of Legalising Gender and Equality: Courts, Markets Unequal Pay for Women in America, Published in Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2000, Vol. 55, No 2
2001	“Free Speech and Privacy in the Internet Age: The Canadian Perspective”, Published in Arbitration 2001 – Arbitrating in an Evolving Legal Environment, 54th Annual Meeting, National Academy of Arbitrators, Edited by J. Grenig and S. Briggs, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, D.C.
2001	Contributor to State of the Art and Practice in Dispute Resolution: Symposium in Honour of Bryan M. Downie; Mary Lou Coates, Editor. Queen’s Industrial Relations Centre, 2002
2002	“Free Speech and Privacy in the Internet Age: The Canadian Perspective”, Comparative Labour Law & Policy Journal,Volume 24, Number 1, Fall 2002
2010	"Human Rights and Accommodation," in Palmer and Snyder; Collective Agreement Arbitration in Canada, 4th Edition, Butterworths, 2010
............................................................................................................................................................................................

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS and ACTIVITIES

1. National Academy of Arbitrators, 1995 to date
                            Program Committee for Ottawa-Gatineau Conference May 2008
                            Professional Responsibility and Grievance Committee, 2008 to date
                            Research and Education Foundation

2. Member, Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrators’ Association, 1991 to date
                            Board of Directors, 1995 – 1998

3. Member, Circle of Chairs, Society of Ontario Adjudicators, 1991 – 1997

4. Canadian Bar Association – Ontario Labour Law Subsection
                            President – 1993 - 1994
                            Vice President – 1992 - 1993
............................................................................................................................................................................................

PUBLIC ADDRESSES and ACTIVITIES

Several appearances giving speeches and training sessions about arbitration, mediation, labour relations and interest-based bargaining, including:

1991	“Winning Cases at Grievance Arbitration”, presented for Lancaster House
1992	Ontario School Board Trustees Association, “Projections of Labour Relations Issues,” Canadian Bar Association, Continuing Education Series, “Labour Relations Act Reforms”
1993	Ontario English Catholic School Teachers Association, “Grievance Arbitration”
1995	Ontario Labour Relations Symposium, Panellist, “Ontario Labour Arbitration Forecast”
1996	Law Society of Upper Canada, Continuing Education Series, “Mastering Mediation”
1997	Infonex Seminar, Keynote Speaker, “Successfully Administering the Collective Agreement" Institute for International Research – Discipline and Discharge, Procedures: A Practical Update Seminar, “Diagnosing Potential Outcomes of your Arbitrations: The Arbitrator’s Perspective” Infonex Seminar, Chair, “Canada Labour Code Reform – A Complete Review”
1998	University of Toronto Centre for Industrial Relations, Panellist, Labour Arbitration Conference, “Putting Your Best Face on Your Case: What Arbitrators Look for in Case Presentation” Osgoode Hall Law School, Professional Development Programme, Coach, Advanced Mediation Workshop Centrum Information Seminar, Chair, “Key Issues in Ontario Education Reform” Insight Information Inc. Conference – Keynote Speaker, “Labour Reform: How to Keep the Pendulum from Swinging”
1999	Ministry of Labour, Arbitrators Training Program, “Mediation in Arbitration” Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark, Labour Law Moot Competition, Participating Arbitrator Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers Conference, Guest Speaker National Academy of Arbitrators, Speaker, “Disability Issues: The Canadian Perspective” Lancaster House, Labour Arbitration Conference, Panellist, “Accommodation Issues” Glass Moulders’ Convention, Panellist, “What do Arbitrators Look for at Arbitration”
2000	Coach, Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot Queen’s University Industrial Relations Centre, Presentation, “Labour Arbitration Skills” Queen’s University Industrial Relations Centre, Panellist, Brian Downie Symposium, “Mediating Justice: Practice Meets Theory”
2001	Coach, Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot Queen’s University Industrial Relations Centre, Presentation, “Labour Arbitration Skills”, April 30, 2001 Workshop Designer and Presenter for Ombudsman Ontario, “The Duty to Accommodate”, October 12, 2001 Lancaster House Conference, Panel Chair, “Issues in Public Sector Bargaining”, October 31, 2001 National Academy of Arbitrators, Speaker, Tampa, Florida, “Free Speech and Privacy in the Age of the Internet – The Canadian Perspective”, November 2, 2001, Co-Chair, Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrators’ Association Fall Education Conference, November 15, 2001, “Making the System Work Better”
2002	Coach, Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot Speaker, Police Employment in 2000 Conference, Toronto, February 25-26, 2002 Key Note Speaker, Ontario Public School Boards Association, Labour Relations Symposium, April 4, 2002 Queen’s University Industrial Relations Centre, Presentation, “Labour Arbitration Skills”, April 28, 2002 Panellist, Law Society Continuing Education Seminar, “New Developments in Labour Law, Mediation in Arbitration”, May 27, 2002 Discussion Leader, “Recent Issues and Developments in Canadian Labour Arbitration”, National Academy of Arbitrators 2002 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa., May 30 – June 2, 2002 Co- Chair, Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrators’ Association, Continuing Education Seminar, “Assessing Credibility”,November 21, 2002
2003	Coach of the winning Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, February 18-19, 2003 Queen’s University Industrial Relations Centre, Presentation, “Labour Arbitration Skills”, May 25, 2003 Plenary Panellist, Labour Arbitration and Policy Conference, University of Calgary, Industrial Relations Research Group, June 11-12, 2003 Panellist, “The Future of Administrative Justice”, 2003 Conference of Boards and Agencies, November 7, 2003
2004	Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January 24, 2004 Queen’s University Industrial Relations Centre, Presentation, “Labour Arbitration Skills”, May 1, 2004 Panellist, Police Association of Ontario Conference, Workshop on Arbitration under the Police Services Act, August 10, 2004 Panellist, Ontario Bar Association Labour Law Section, “Zero Tolerance – the Ultimate Zero Sum Game?”, September 20, 2004 Panellist, “How to avoid being Judicially Reviewed”, with Justice Stephen Goudge, Ontario Court of Appeal, and Professor Thomas Kuttner, Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrators’ Association, November 18, 2004
2005	Panellist, “Rulings on Difficult Issues at Arbitration”, OPS Labour Relations Conference, January 20, 2005 Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, Placed 2nd
2006	Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January, 2006 Panellist, Ontario Bar Association, Labour Law Subsection, “Straight Talk from Arbitrators”, June 12, 2006 Speaker, Insight Conference, “Accommodation Issues in Arbitration”, June 15, 2006 Moderator, Panel on “Ethical Issues in Arbitration”, with Justice Stephen Goudge, George Thompson and Ken Swan, at the Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrators’ Association Conference, November 16, 2007
2007	Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January, 2007 Panellist, “Difficult Rulings at Arbitration”, Lancaster Conference, Calgary, Alberta, June 13, 2007 Speaker, “Confessions of the Arbitrator who wrote the Parry Sound decision” or “Be careful of what you asked for”, Montreal, Quebec, June 14, 2007 Director, Arbitrator Development Program, Phase 1, with the Ontario Ministry of Labour, November 28 - 30, 2007
2008	Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January 2008 Member, Program Committee - 2008 National Academy of Arbitrators Annual Meeting, Ottawa-Gaineau Director, Arbitrator Development Program, Phases 2 & 3, with the Ontario Ministry of Labour Presenter, Labour Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in Art, Literature and Opera, at the National Academy of Arbitrators Conference, Ottawa-Gatineau, May 2008 Chair, Panel on How to Deal with Ethical Dilemmas, at the National Academy of Arbitrators Conference, Ottawa-Gatineau, May 2008 2009 Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January 2008
2009	Speaker for the “New Member Orientation,” National Academy of Arbitrators Conference, Chicago, Illinois; May 20, 2009 Panellist, “The Next Generation of Arbitrators and Advocates - From Where Will They Come?”, National Academy of Arbitrators Conference, Chicago, May 23, 2009 Speaker, “What do Arbitrators Look for?” Canadian Labour Congress: Arbitration Skills Seminar, May 28, 2009 Presenter, “Human Rights and Accommodation,” for the Office of the Ombudsman Ontario, September 24, 2009 Panellist, “The Business Side of Arbitration,” National Academy of Arbitrators - Fall Education Conference, San Antonio, Texas; October 3, 2009 Panellist, “Squaring the Circle: Finding a balance between benefit coverage and cost containment, Lancaster House Conference - Bargaining in the Broader Public Sector, December 16, 2009
2010	Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team - Winners of the Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January 2010 Panellist, “Self Represented Litigants,” 2010 Ontario Bar Association Institute, February 16, 2010 Organizing Committee Member, Canadian Labour Arbitrators’ Educational Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, March 6-8, 2010 Co-Presenter, with William Kaplan; The End of the One-Trick Pony: When is being an Arbitrator Not Enough? A Workshop on Med-Arb for Nova Scotia Minister's List Arbitrators, Sponsored by the Nova Scotia Minister of Labour's Arbitration Advisory Committee, Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 20, 2010 Presenter;"The Arbitration Scene," Address to the Education, the Economy and Sustainable Bargaining Labour Relations Conference, October 1, 2010 Panellist, "Family-Related Responsibilities: Reconciling personal needs and operational demands," Lancaster House, Labour Aribtration Conference, December 9, 2010.
2011	Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team - Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, Finalists, January, 2011 Guest Speaker, Interest Arbitration, Strait Talk from an Arbitrator, Police Association of Ontario Conference, April 18, 2011 Panellist, National Academy of Arbitrators,Representation Rights and Issues in Arbitration, San Diego California, May 2011 Panellist on Interest Arbitration, Emergency Services Steering Committee of Ontario Conference, June 17, 2011 Presentation to a delegation from Viet Nam regarding Arbitration in Ontario, August 2, 2011 Panellist on Accommodation Issues, Canadian Conference of Counsel for Employers, Niagara Falls, Ontario, September 22, 2011 Panellist, Rogers School of Management - “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; The Future of Interest Arbitration,” Toronto, October 7, 2011
2012	Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January, 2012 Presentation on Interest Arbitration, Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs - “Ask the Arbitrator.”, Toronto, January 19, 2012 Workshop Leader on Accommodation Issues, Alberta School Board's Association, January 20, 2012
............................................................................................................................................................................................

VOLUNTEER, COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES and INTERESTS

Intake Worker, Yonge Street Mission, Food Bank, 1998 – 1999

Member, Social Planning and Allocation Committee, United Jewish Federation,
1998 – 2001

Volunteer, Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law,
Peer Mediation Project, 1999 – 2000

Board of Directors, Chamber Concerts Canada, 1992 – 2000

Sandwich-maker, Waitress and Cleaner, “Feed the Hungry Program”,
Law Society of Upper Canada, Fall 2000 – 2006

Patron, Canadian Opera Company and as much theatre as possible

Student of Ballroom and Swing Dance
............................................................................................................................................................................................