Course Chairs
Adele J. Adamic —Ministry of Justice, Legal Services Branch, Vancouver
Robert A. Kasting — Stewart, Aulinger & Company, Vancouver
Online Moderator
Maureen S. Boyd — Counsel for the Commissioner for Teacher Regulation, Ministry of Justice, Legal Services Branch, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Adele Adamic is a senior member of the Labour Employment and Human Rights Group of the Vancouver office of the Legal Services Branch, Ministry of Justice. She provides opinions on employment, labour, and workers’ compensation issues, legislation, and international treaties and agreements. She participates in hearings before the Employment Standards Tribunal on behalf of the BC Director of Employment Standards, as well as appearing in the Courts on behalf of the Director, in insolvencies, motions, applications, and judicial review petitions. Adele has been involved in the training of statutory decision makers for over 20 years. She is a BCCAT certified trainer, who has also trained decision makers outside of government, such as the Law Society of BC Benchers. She has been on the Board of Directors of the CLEBC for several years. She is an author of chapters of the British Columbia Administrative Law Practice Manual and also sits on the Editorial Board of that publication. She is a member of the annual Employment Law Conference planning committee, and a regular speaker at conferences on administrative law issues.
Robert Kasting is a Vancouver-based lawyer who practices in BC. He has previously been the director the Legal Division of the territorial Department of Justice, where all judicial review applications and lawsuits against the government passed over his desk and he appeared as counsel in many of them.
Bob's practice includes mostly administrative and estate litigation. He has acted as counsel in administrative hearings as varied as before the Medical Services Commission, the College of Teachers, the Law Societies of BC and the NWT, the Human Rights Tribunals of BC, the NWT and Canada, the Transportation Appeal Tribunal, and various liquor boards and the College of Teachers. He has acted as counsel for both decision makers and members of the public in judicial reviews in the federal courts and the superior courts of BC and the NWT. He has conducted judicial reviews, and appeals in the Supreme Courts of the NWT and BC and in the Federal Court. He has also acted as counsel for the Attorney General of Canada and the Attorney General of BC and the Commissioner of the NWT. Finally, he has been a part-time statutory decision maker--including as chair of the Sahtu Land Claims Arbitration Board, chair of the Gwich'in Land Claims Arbitration Panel, a rentals officer, a human rights investigator, and a member of the BC Property Assessment Appeal Board. He is on the editorial board of the British Columbia Administrative Law Practice Manual.
Faculty
The Honourable Justice David Stratas — Federal Court of Appeal, Ottawa
Adele J. Adamic — Ministry of Justice, Legal Services Branch, Vancouver
Maureen S. Boyd — Counsel for the Commissioner for Teacher Regulation, Ministry of Justice, Legal Services Branch, Vancouver
Jennifer Chow, QC — Department of Justice Canada, Vancouver
Laurel Courtenay — Ministry of Justice, Legal Services Branch, Vancouver
David W. Garner — Labour Relations Board of BC, Vancouver
Andrew D. Gay, QC — Gudmundseth Mickelson LLP, Vancouver
Robert A. Kasting — Stewart, Aulinger & Company, Vancouver
Gregory J. McDade, QC — Ratcliff & Company LLP, North Vancouver
British Columbia Administrative Law Practice Manual
Creative problem-solving and effective advocacy
This book is essential for: counsel at all levels of administrative law practice, administrative law decision-makers, and judges in superior and federal courts.
Current to: July 1, 2015
The British Columbia Administrative Law Practice Manual provides a framework for lawyers who practice before and represent administrative law decision-makers in BC, as well as decision-makers themselves and judges. This framework, along with helpful hyperlinks to legislation, case law, and other decisions, creates a unified resource for counsel in administrative law proceedings, judicial review, statutory appeals, and stated cases. The manual covers both federal and provincial decision-makers and proceedings in both federal and BC superior courts. Lawyers will find practical advice on how to conduct themselves at all levels of representation, the roles of various parties, how to avoid common pitfalls, practice tips on effective advocacy and drafting, and dealing with unrepresented parties.
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