Course Chairs
Frank A.V. Falzon, QC — Frank A.V. Falzon Law Corporation, Victoria
Angus M. Gunn, QC — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Frank A.V. Falzon, QC graduated from the University of Victoria Faculty of Law in 1986, where he received the Law Society Gold Medal. In 1987-88, he was law clerk to The Honourable Mr. Justice McIntyre of the Supreme Court of Canada, was called to the BC bar in 1989, and commenced practice with the constitutional and administrative law section of the Ministry of Attorney General. He entered private practice in November 1995. Frank remains in private practice as a sole practitioner in the areas of constitutional and administrative law, and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2008.
Frank’s clients include administrative tribunals and officers of the legislature. He has appeared at all levels of court in Canada, and has served as a decision-maker on several administrative tribunals, including the British Columbia Criminal Code Review Board and the Employment Standards Tribunal. Frank taught administrative law for several years as a sessional instructor at the University of Victoria, and regularly provides administrative law training to administrative tribunals and other statutory decision-makers.
Frank has presented to the BC Court of Appeal’s Education Committee, written two major discussion papers for British Columbia’s Administrative Justice Project in (Standard of Review and Statutory Powers and Procedures), and has published several law review articles and papers in the area of administrative law. Since 2004 he has been co-chair of CLEBC’s Administrative Law Conference and currently serves on the Editorial Board for their British Columbia Administrative Law Practice Manual (2012), in which he has contributed two chapters (“Overview of Administrative Law” and “Impartiality and Independence”).
Angus M. Gunn, QC is a partner at the Vancouver office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. He was admitted to the BC bar in 1995, after a judicial clerkship with the Court of Appeal for BC. Angus was also admitted as a Solicitor, Supreme Court of England and Wales, in 1998. He pursued professional training at both the University of Cambridge (Master of Law, 1998) and the University of Toronto (Bachelor of Laws, 1993). Angus has also served as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law, University of BC.
Angus’ practice emphasizes commercial dispute resolution, with a focus on appellate litigation, public law, and international and domestic arbitration and mediation. He has appeared before all levels of court in British Columbia, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Angus’ professional and community activities include pro bono work, regular speaking engagements and publications, and various professional and other memberships.
Featured Speakers
The Honourable Madam Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella — Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa
The Honourable John M. Evans — Toronto
David Phillip Jones, QC — de Villars Jones, Edmonton
About the Featured Speakers
The Honourable Madam Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004 after serving on the Ontario Court of Appeal for 12 years. She is the first Jewish woman appointed to the Supreme Court. She practiced civil and criminal litigation until she was appointed to the Ontario Family Court in 1976. She subsequently chaired the Ontario Law Reform Commission and the Ontario Labour Relations Board. Justice Abella was the sole Commissioner and author of the 1984 Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, creating the term and concept of “employment equity”. Her report was implemented in four countries. She was the Boulton Visiting Professor at McGill Law School from 1988-1992, teaching jurisprudence, administrative law, and constitutional law. Justice Abella is a specially elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in classical piano. She was a judge of the Giller Literary Prize, has written over 90 articles, and written or co-edited four books on a wide variety of legal topics, and chairs the Rhodes Selection Committee for Ontario. She has 32 honourary degrees. Justice Abella is married to Canadian historian Irving Abella and they have two sons, both lawyers.
The Honourable John M. Evans is a graduate of Oxford University and was a member of the Law Department of The London School of Economics before his appointment as professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he taught, among other subjects, administrative law, immigration law, and trusts. In 1998, he was appointed Judge of the Federal Court of Canada, Trial Division, and of the Appeal Division in 1999. From 2003 until his retirement in 2014, he was a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal. Judge Evans has written extensively on public law, both in England and in Canada. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of Immigration Law (2nd edition, 1983); the editor of the 4th edition of de Smith’s Judicial Review of Administrative Action (1980); and co-author of Evans, Janisch, Mullan and Risk, Administrative Law: Cases, Text and Materials (4th edition 1995) and Brown and Evans, Judicial Review of Administrative Action in Canada (looseleaf, Carswell). He is currently a consultant on administrative law matters and an academic visitor at Osgoode Hall Law School.
David Phillip Jones, QC is a well known author, lecturer, and practitioner in all areas of administrative law. He grew up in Calgary, studied economics and political science at McGill University, and law as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Called to the Alberta bar in 1974, for 16 years he was a full-time law professor at McGill and the University of Alberta. His subjects included administrative law, constitutional law, property, taxation, and government control of business. Since 1988, David has been in private practice in Edmonton with the “cerebral micro-firm” of de Villars Jones which he co-founded; his practice includes all areas of administrative law, commercial and labour arbitration, mediation, and "point of law" litigation. He is the Conflict of Interest Commissioner for both Yukon and Northwest Territories, and Chancellor of the Anglican Church of Canada. Co-author of Jones & de Villars’ Principles of Administrative Law (6th edition 2014), co-editor of the Administrative Law Reports, and author of numerous articles and comments in various law reviews, David received the 2009 Medal from the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, and the 2012 Distinguished Service Award for Legal Scholarship from the Law Society of Alberta and the Alberta Branch of the Canadian Bar Association.
Faculty
The Honourable Madam Justice Barbara Fisher — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Joseph J.M. Arvay, QC — Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP, Vancouver
Caroline Berkey — Chair, WCAT, Richmond
The Honourable John M. Evans — Toronto
Frank A.V. Falzon, QC — Frank A.V. Falzon Law Corporation, Victoria
Lindsay M. Lyster — Moore Edgar Lyster, Vancouver
Shannon Salter — Chair, Civil Resolution Tribunal
Mark G. Underhill — Underhill, Boies Parker, Vancouver
Karrie A. Wolfe — Ministry of Justice, Victoria
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