Course Chairs
Sandra I. Banister, QC — Banister and Company, Vancouver
Charles G. Harrison — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Charles G. Harrison is a partner in the Labour, Employment and Human Rights practice group at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver. He represents clients in a variety of provincially regulated business sectors including utilities, municipal government, shipyards, construction, and the forest industry. He also has a substantial practice in federally regulated business sectors including maritime industries, telecommunications, trucking, railways, and air transport. Chuck provides clients with proactive and strategic labour and employment advice in the context of major projects, business restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions. He regularly represents clients as counsel in labour arbitrations, labour board hearings, mediation, human rights and other proceedings, and has frequently presented in these areas. Called to the BC bar in 1986, Chuck is named in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2014 for Labour and Employment Law. He has served on the executive of the national Canadian Bar Association’s Labour and Employment Law Section since 2002 and was named an Honourary Executive Member in 2012.
Sandra I. Banister, QC has practiced trade union law and civil litigation (primarily personal injury and wrongful dismissal) since 1982 when she was called to the BC bar. She acted as Special Counsel to the BC Transit Board on issues of successorship and contracting out, and represented the Ministry of Small Business, Tourism and Culture as Special Advisor on the Status of the Artist. Sandra has been a frequent speaker at a variety of conferences and seminars for the Trial Lawyers Association, Continuing Legal Education Society of BC, the Labour Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association (BC), Lancaster House, Insight, the Centre for Labour Management, and the BC Federation of Labour. She has taught numerous labour related courses for trade unions and has organized and instructed the provincial labour law course for the annual Canadian Labour Congress Harrison Winter School since 1985. Sandra is named in Best Lawyers, and in 2011, her ability and achievements in the legal profession were recognized when she was designated Queen’s Counsel.
Faculty
Tonie Beharrell — Legal Counsel, Health Sciences Association of BC, Vancouver
Chris G. Buchanan — Hastings Labour Law Office LLP, Vancouver
Jennifer Glougie — Banister & Company, Vancouver
Charles Gordon — Koskie Glavin Gordon, Vancouver
Stephanie D. Gutierrez — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Greg J. Heywood — Roper Greyell LLP, Vancouver
Dalton L. Larson — Lawyer, Arbitrator & Mediator, The Arbitrators Group, Vancouver
John L. McConchie — Lawyer, Arbitrator & Mediator, McConchie & Company, Vancouver
Paul D. McLean — Mathews, Dinsdale & Clark LLP, Vancouver
Monique G. Orieux — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Delayne M. Sartison, QC — Roper Greyell LLP, Vancouver
David W. Tarasoff — Hastings Labour Law Office LLP, Vancouver
Norman K. Trerise — Member, BC Human Rights Tribunal, Vancouver