Upcoming Events from our Affiliates and other organizations:
- Insight Summit 2021 – Thursday, September 30 and Friday, October 1 from 11:30am-4:30pm ET over Zoom.
Continuous Access Events/Webinars
- CIAJ-ICAJ – Indigenous Peoples and the Law Free Webinar Series – Beginning October 14th, 2020
- Commanding Presence Online for ADRIC Members – This program is designed for professionals who want to increase their effectiveness and personal performance when speaking in all situations, including one-on-one, meetings, and large audience presentations. ADRIC Members get 25% off the regular price of $330 – sse code: “ADRIC”. ADRIC members also receive: Extended free trial that includes more videos and content, and Bonus unit: Your Natural Voice. A popular unit from the Two-Day Workshop where we practice voice exercises and how to improve your voice quality.
The week's events
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ADRIC 2020 - Hearing the Voice of the Child in Family Law Arbitration
ADRIC 2020 - Hearing the Voice of the Child in Family Law Arbitration
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September 2, 2020Hearing the Voice of the Child in Family Law Arbitration
Wednesday September 2, 12-1:30 pm ET
Register Now! (Deadline to register is August 31, 11:59 pm ET)
John-Paul E Boyd, QC, MA LLB, John-Paul Boyd Arbitration Chambers
This session will look at the source of arbitrators' obligation to hear the voice of the child in family law disputes, discuss the available alternatives and provide an outline of best practices for arbitrators' interviews of children.
Download the flyer: Hearing the Voice of the Child in Family Law Arbitration
John-Paul E. Boyd is an accredited family law arbitrator, family law mediator and parenting coordinator, a member of the bars of Alberta and British Columbia, and counsel to the preeminent Calgary family law firm Wise Scheible Barkauskas.
John-Paul practiced family law in Vancouver for 14 years before taking a position as the executive director of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family, a non-profit organization affiliated with the University of Calgary, in 2013. He took his training as a mediator in 2005, as a parenting coordinator in 2007, as an arbitrator in 2011 and as a collaborative practitioner in 2012. He returned to private practice, providing services throughout Alberta and British Columbia, in 2018 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in British Columbia in 2019.
John-Paul is a member of the ADR Institute of Canada, Family Mediation Canada, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and the Canadian Bar Association, and a former fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. He presently serves on the board of directors of Family Mediation Canada, the executive committee of the CBA’s Child & Youth Law Section and the CBA Alberta’s Access to Justice Committee. He is a juror of the Walter Owen Book Prize, awarded by the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research, and the Allan Falconer Memorial Essay Contest, awarded by the Canadian Journal of Family Law.
Professional Development Accreditation:
- ADRIC designation holders earn 3 Continuing Education & Engagement (CEE) points
- CPD accreditation received to date for this webinar (pending from other Law Societies across Canada):
- Law Society of British Columbia: 1.5 hours
- Law Society of New Brunswick: 1.5 hours
- Law Society of Ontario: This program contains 1 hour of Professionalism Content
- Law Society of Saskatchewan: 1.5 hours
Register Now!
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ADRIC 2020 - The Arbitration Award: Getting it Written, Getting it Right
ADRIC 2020 - The Arbitration Award: Getting it Written, Getting it Right
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September 3, 2020The Arbitration Award: Getting it Written, Getting it Right
Thursday September 3, 4 – 5:30 pm
Register Now! (Deadline to register is September 1, 11:59 pm ET)
Chair: Louise Barrington, JD, LLM, FCIArb, Chartered Independent Arbitrator, Arbitration Place
Joel Richler, BA, BCL, LL.B, FCIArb, Bay Street Chambers and Arbitration Place
Daniel Urbas, BA, LLB, BCL, FCIArb, Urbas Arbitral- Preparing to write the award in the course of the arbitration
- Closing the arbitration
- Deliberations and managing tribunal dynamics
- Communications with counsel and experts in the course of writing the award
- Form of the award (statutory and institutional requirements for enforceability)
- Best practices
- Applications to correct or interpret
Louise Barrington, JD, LLM, FCIArb, Chartered Independent Arbitrator, Arbitration Place
Louise Barrington is a dispute resolver with 30 years of experience. She practiced law in Ontario before moving into the field of international commercial arbitration during graduate studies in Paris. A Canadian, she also holds a British passport.
In 2001 Ms. Barrington became one of Asia’s first Chartered Arbitrators of CIArb. She has served as arbitrator for the ICC many times, appointed by parties and by the ICC National Committees of Canada and Britain - as co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator and chair. She is a panel member for HKIAC, CIArb, AAA-ICDR, VIAC, CIETAC and DIAC and in Canada has chaired financial services disciplinary hearings, is an investigator into bank/consumer disputes and has acted as sole arbitrator in several cases under the former FSCO auto insurance benefits scheme.
She founded and directs the annual Vis East Arbitration Moot (www.cisgmoot.org) now in its 16th year and is co-founder and former co-president of ArbitralWomen (www.arbitralwomen.org ). She is chief editor of The Danubia Files: Lessons in Award Writing from the Vis Moot and established Vis Moot Capacity Building Programmes in Cambodia and Myanmar.
Joel Richler, BA, BCL, LL.B, FCIArb, Bay Street Chambers and Arbitration Place
Joel is a former Blakes partner who now practices as an arbitrator and mediator at Bay Street Chambers and Arbitration Place.
Joel acted as emergency arbitrator, sole arbitrator, chair and party-appointee on many domestic and international arbitrations, both ad hoc and institutional. He also has acted as a construction contract adjudicator for the MTO and ORBA.
Joel is a member of the Canadian and International ICDR rosters, the BCICAC roster (British Columbia), and the Roster of Referees for MTO and the Ontario Roadbuilders Association.
Daniel Urbas BA, LLB, BCL, FCIArb, Urbas Arbitral
An experienced arbitrator with 25 years of dispute resolution experience, Daniel Urbas is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) based in London, UK, as well as a founding director of the CIArb’s new Canada Branch.
He sits regularly as an arbitrator, both as a sole arbitrator and as chair or member of a three-member arbitration tribunal. His appointments have been by individual parties, jointly by the parties, appointed by the court and by administering institutions such as ICC and CCAC. He is also listed on various rosters including AAA’s ICDR.
Professional Development Accreditation:
- ADRIC designation holders earn 3 Continuing Education & Engagement (CEE) points
- CPD accreditation received to date for this webinar (pending from other Law Societies across Canada):
- Law Society of British Columbia: 1.5 hours
- Law Society of New Brunswick: 1.5 hours
- Law Society of Saskatchewan: 1.5 hours
Register Now!