The Arbitration Award:  Getting it Written, Getting it Right

Thursday September 3, 4 – 5:30 pm

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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 16^th 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

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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