ADRIC UPCOMING EVENTS
ADRIC WEBINAR SERIES RECORDINGS available on demand:
ADRIC 2021: Culture, Conflict and Confluence – A Webinar Series
ADRIC 2021 Webinar Series – Recordings available on demand at only $35 (and some are no charge). CEE and CPD points accredited – Click here to order.
- Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) and Climate Justice – recorded on September 29, 2021
- Diversity and ADR: an Advocates’ Perspective and Why it Matters for Your Case Recorded on November 25
- The Problem with Reconciliation Recorded on September 30, 2021
- Technology and Culture–Sensitive ADR Recorded on October 7, 2021
- Gender Awareness 101 for Dispute Resolution Professionals Recorded on October 13, 2021
- Increasing Police Legitimacy and Effectiveness in a Diverse World Recorded on October 27, 2021
- Clash of Cultures or Melding of Cultures? Opportunities in Diversity Recorded on November 3, 2021
- Trauma Informed Dispute Resolution – a Practical Process Recorded on November 24, 2021
- Best Practices in ADR through a Multi-faith Lens: Successes and Challenges Recorded on December 1,2021
ADRIC FREE RECORDINGS available on demand:
- ADRIC’s Presentation for CanArbWeek 2020 – recorded September 23, 2020
- An Introduction to A Model Framework for Construction Adjudication across Canada – recorded April 28, 2021
- Construction Adjudication in Infrastructure Contracts – Perspectives from Four Adjudicators – recorded June 25, 2021
ADRIC 2020 Diversity in ADR Series
- 1 – Listening Circle: What is Diversity, Inclusion and Truth and Reconciliation recorded October 14, 2020
- 2 – Allyship: Authentic vs Performative – recorded October 21, 2020
- 3 – Voice and Choice: Power, Privilege and Reconciliation – Understanding and Recognizing in Ourselves and Our Clients recorded October 28, 2020
- 4 – The Value of Inclusion in ADR: Learning from Non-Mainstream Practitioners – recorded November 4, 2020
- 5 – Changing Systemic Biases and Discriminatory Practices in Organizations – recorded November 10, 2020
- 6 – A Trauma -Informed Approach to Managing ADR Part 1 – recorded November 18, 2020 We regret this recording is no longer available.
- 6b – Trauma-Informed ADR: How to Support Clients Part 2 – recorded January 27, 2021 We regret this recording is no longer available.
- 6c – Trauma-Informed ADR – Part 3 – recorded April 7, 2021 We regret this recording is no longer available.
- 7 – A Brave Space: Ask Your Questions without Being Judged – recorded November 25, 2020
- 8 – Sharing Circle: Moving our Practices and Organizations Forward, and Advancing the Process of Truth and Reconciliation – recorded December 2, 2020
Ongoing, on demand: ADRIC 2020 Clarity in Conflict Resolution – Webinar And Videoconference Series – recordings available on demand at only $35. – CPD points accredited _ click here to order
Webinars to Assist Members During the Start of the Pandemic
- Options for Online Dispute Resolution: An Introduction to Using Zoom – recorded March 23, 2020
- Gaining Proficiency and Understanding ODR using Zoom – recorded April 8, 2020
- Comprendre les bases de la médiation en ligne : Introduction à l’utilisation de Zoom et conseils pratiques – recorded April 15, 2020
- Transference / Compassion Fatigue – recorded May 13, 2020
- Everything’s Changed: What Do We Do Now? – recorded May 27, 2020
- You Can’t Un-ring the Bell: Lessons Learned – recorded June 10, 2020
- Mental Health in the Age of Dramatic Change and Uncertainty – recorded June 17, 2020
- Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda …GONNA ! – recorded July 8, 2020
Other ADRIC webinars
- Workplace Claims and Solutions – recorded June 13, 2019
- see our YouTube Channel for more recordings
The week's events
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International Conflict Resolution Day
International Conflict Resolution Day
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October 15, 2020Celebrate Conflict Resolution Day and encourage your personal and professional network to learn more about our work!
Events across the country:
ADRIC: Free webinar: The Art of Listening October 15, 2020 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET details below
Alberta Conflict Resolution Day Committee:
- Daily TedTalks and Webinars October 12-16, 2020
- CBC Alberta “Conflict Resolution Doctors Are In”
ADRIM: Managing Unresolvable Problems - David Falk, C.Med, President, ADR Institute of Manitoba 1-2 PM ET
The Art of Listening
October 15, 2020 12:00 - 1:00M ET
Presented in collaboration with ADRIC’s partner, Resolve Collaboration audio and telecommunications.
What communication skill could be more basic than listening? We spend more time listening than any activity except breathing, yet we listen at only a fraction of our potential. We believe ourselves good listeners but what if we could improve?
This webinar will highlight the seven “Laws of Good Listening” and will illustrate the surprising value of attentive silence, the need to find something of interest in the person speaking, the importance of staying out of the speaker’s way, and the role of body language in listening. Each “law” is a key toward improved listening and communication and you will leave with practical skills that you can implement immediately to improve your communications with others!
Don Schapira, Q.Med on behalf of ADR Institute of Canada
Don founded Fresh Start Mediation in 2014 because he believed that there was a better way to overcome conflict in the Family Room, Board Room and the Class Room.
After his own divorce in 2008, Don understood that in communication there are two equally important aspects – Talking and even more important, Listening.
Sharpening his skills through Harvard, Cornell and Northwestern Universities, coupled with helping hundreds of families come to healthy solutions, Don has found a balanced, successful approach to securing your Fresh Start.
Don has also pledged himself to many charitable organizations in the local community, working with Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Peer Mediation and Skills Training as well as Businesses For Calgary Kids.
Staying true to his desire to grow the world of ADR, Don also works with ADRIA, is a Board Member with Alberta Family Mediation Society and acts as Executive Director for the Alberta Arbitration and Mediation Society.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it many unforeseen challenges. Interpersonal conflict is one of them.
In recognition of Conflict Resolution Day, Mediation Services has created a public service announcement supporting free, live, online non-violent conflict resolution training for Manitobans and will be providing free and live training sessions on October 21, 23, 26 and November 2 (times to be confirmed). The training is designed to assist and equip Manitobans to have better conversations with clarity and kindness and to best navigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic when engaging with the public.
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ADRIC 2020 - Arbitration Appeals: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
ADRIC 2020 - Arbitration Appeals: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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October 16, 2020Arbitration Appeals: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Friday October 16 , 2020 1:30 - 3 pm ET
(NOTE: This session has been rescheduled from August 27 to October 16.)
Register Now! (Deadline to register is October 14, 11:59 pm ET)
Chair: Bill Horton, C.Arb, FCIArb, William G. Horton Corporation
Hon. Clément Gascon, Woods LLP
Alexander Gay, Justice Canada
Ludmila B. Herbst, QC, Farris LLP
Sabri Shawa, QC, FCIArb, JSS Barristers- Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence and the effect of Vavilov on arbitration appeals
- Recent reforms to arbitration appeals in British Columbia
- Is “leave to appeal” a useful mechanism to limit or expand rights of appeal?
- The boundaries between setting aside and appealing awards
- Arbitration appeals in matters involving the federal government
- Arbitration appeals in Ontario
Download the Flyer: Arbitration Appeals - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
William G. Horton, C.Arb, FCIArb, William G. Horton Corporation
Bill Horton is an arbitrator and mediator of Canadian and international business disputes. His practice is based in Toronto. His arbitrations and mediations been conducted there and in numerous other Canadian and international venues.
Hon. Clément Gascon, Woods LLP
The Honourable Clément Gascon, a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, joined Woods as Senior Counsel in the Spring of 2020. After a career of more than seventeen years in the Canadian judiciary, he returned to the private practice of law, which he had left in 2002. He uses his in-depth expertise and experience to guide and assist parties and their counsel in resolving disputes through arbitration at the national and international levels and acts as strategic advisor in the insolvency, restructuring and litigation matters of the firm.
Admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1982, he worked for twenty years in the fields of civil and commercial litigation and labour law in a national firm and earned a solid reputation as an efficient, well-prepared, and very involved counsel. While working as a lawyer, he taught business law, labour law and construction law at the Université du Québec à Montréal, the McGill University Faculty of Law and the Barreau du Québec.
He was appointed to the Quebec Superior Court in October 2002. While on that court, he sat regularly as a member of the Commercial Division and acted as the Division's coordinating judge from 2008 to 2011. This Division hears all commercial law cases, including restructurings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, proceedings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and disputes between shareholders. He was appointed to the Quebec Court of Appeal in April 2012, and to the Supreme Court of Canada in June 2014. During his years at the Supreme Court, he notably acted as the Court’s representative within the international organization regrouping the supreme courts of the member states of the Francophonie.
During his judicial career, he maintained his involvement in legal education for lawyers of many provincial bars as well as for law students, particularly in matters relating to written and oral advocacy, commercial litigation and insolvency and restructuring. He has also regularly participated as speaker in continuing legal education seminars for judges on commercial law, class actions and judgment writing.
Alexander Gay, Justice Canada
Alexander M. Gay is General Counsel at the Department of Justice. He maintains a broad civil litigation practice, with an emphasis on commercial and trade disputes. Mr Gay has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. He has represented clients in arbitration, mediation and before regulatory tribunals and boards, including the Ontario Energy Board (OEB), the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT), the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT), the Alberta Securities Commission (ASC), the Environment Canada Board of Review, the Public Service Labour Relations Board (PSLRB) and the Competition Tribunal. Mr Gay has also acted for senior public officials from the Government of Canada, including Deputy Ministers and Ministers. Mr Gay has acted as counsel to the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the Patented Medicines Review Board (PMRB), Farm Products Council of Canada (FPCC) and various other federal regulatory bodies. Mr Gay is an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa (Faculty of Law), where he teaches civil litigation and commercial arbitration. He is the author of the Annotated Arbitration Act of Ontario, 1991, the Annotated Ontario Arbitration Legislation - Arbitration Act, 1991 and International Commercial Arbitration Act, 2017, British Columbia's International Arbitration Legislation as well as numerous chapters and articles on a wide range of topics. He is a member of the Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia bars.
Ludmila B. Herbst, QC, Farris LLP
Ludmila is a partner at Farris LLP. She is a Vancouver-based litigator who has represented clients in corporate, commercial, energy-related and public law cases before all levels of court in British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada, arbitral tribunals, and administrative tribunals including the British Columbia Utilities Commission. She frequently presents at conferences and publishes on issues pertaining to her practice. She is one of the two co-authors of Commercial Arbitration in Canada: A Guide to Domestic and International Arbitrations, a leading text on arbitration law that has been cited by trial and appellate courts across Canada. Ludmila is also the assistant editor of, and a regular contributor to, the Advocate, a legal journal circulated to all lawyers in British Columbia with a readership throughout the Commonwealth.
Sabri Shawa, QC, FCIArb, JSS Barristers
In the nearly three decades Sabri has practiced law in Calgary, he has represented and advised thousands of parties in matters before the courts, a wide variety of administrative and regulatory boards and tribunals, at arbitrations, and in mediations. He is also an arbitrator, mediator and negotiator.
In 2012, Sabri was appointed Queen’s Counsel.
In 2014, Sabri was admitted as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, an internationally recognized dispute resolution organization. Sabri is also on the executive board of the Canadian branch of the Institute and the chairperson of its Alberta chapter.
Sabri has long been listed by Best Lawyers and was named by it as Lawyer of the Year in Calgary for 2020 for Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is also listed as a Litigation Star by Benchmark Canada for arbitration and dispute resolution, among other things, and has been for many years.
Sabri is a member of the Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society and a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.
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
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