Course Chairs
Frank A.V. Falzon, QC — Frank A.V. Falzon Law Corporation, Victoria
Angus M. Gunn, QC — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Featured Speakers
The Honourable Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein — Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa
David Phillip Jones, QC — de Villars Jones, Edmonton
Lorne Sossin — Dean and Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto
Faculty
The Honourable Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein — Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa
Maureen E. Baird, QC — Lunny Atmore LLP, Vancouver
Frank A.V. Falzon, QC — Frank A.V. Falzon Law Corporation, Victoria
Leah Greathead — Ministry of Justice, Victoria
Angus M. Gunn, QC — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
David Phillip Jones, QC — de Villars Jones, Edmonton
David W. Mossop, QC — Community Legal Assistance Society, Vancouver
Geoffrey Plant, QC — Heenan Blaikie LLP, Vancouver
Lorne Sossin — Dean and Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto
John H. Shevchuk — Lex Pacifica Law Corporation, Vancouver
Cheryl L. Vickers — Chair, Property Assessment Appeal Board, Richmond
Karrie A. Wolfe — Ministry of Justice, Victoria
About the Featured Speakers
The Honourable Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein, BComm, LLB was called to the Bar of Manitoba in 1966. He was an associate of Thorvalson, Eggertson, Saunders and Mauro (1966 – 1969), then an associate of Aikins, MacAulay & Thorvalson (1969 – 1972), becoming partner from 1972 to 1992. He was appointed QC in 1979. Mr. Justice Rothstein practiced in the areas of administrative law and litigation, primarily transportation and competition law, and was a labour and commercial arbitrator. From 1978 to 1983, he was an Adjudicator, Manitoba Human Rights Act, and from 1986 to 1992 was a Member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
From 1970 to 1983 and from 1988 to 1992, Mr. Justice Rothstein was a lecturer in transportation law at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law. From 1970 to 1975 he was both a lecturer in contract law at the University of Manitoba Extension Department and a Bar Admission Course Lecturer, Law Society of Manitoba.
Mr. Justice Rothstein was a judge of the Federal Court of Canada, Trial Division and member ex officio of the Appeal Division from June 24, 1992 to January 20, 1999. He was appointed judge of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada on October 29, 1992, and was a judicial member of the Competition Tribunal from May 31, 1993 to January 20, 1999. Mr. Justice Rothstein was a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal from January 21, 1999 to February 28, 2006, and was then appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on March 1, 2006.
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. 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, he has been in private practice in Edmonton with the “cerebral micro-firm” of de Villars Jones. He has been the Conflict of Interest Commissioner for the Yukon Legislative Assembly since 2002, and Chancellor of the Anglican Church of Canada since 2010. Co-author of Jones & de Villars’ Principles of Administrative Law (5th edition 2009), co-editor of the Administrative Law Reports, and author of numerous articles and comments in various law reviews, David was the co-recipient of the 2009 Medal from the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, and received the 2012 Distinguished Service Award from the Law Society of Alberta and the Alberta Branch of the Canadian Bar Association.
Lorne Sossin became Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School on July 1, 2010. Prior to this appointment, he was a Professor with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto (2002-2010). He is a former Associate Dean of the University of Toronto (2004-2007) and served as the inaugural Director of the Centre for the Legal Profession (2008-2010). Previously (1997-2002), he was a faculty member at Osgoode Hall Law School, and the Department of Political Science, at York University. His teaching interests span administrative and constitutional law, the regulation of professions, civil litigation, public policy and the judicial process. Dean Sossin was a law clerk to former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada, a former Associate in Law at Columbia Law School, and a former litigation lawyer with the firm of Borden & Elliot (now Borden Ladner Gervais LLP). Dean Sossin has published numerous books, journal articles, reviews, and essays, including Boundaries of Judicial Review: The Law of Justiciability, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2010) (forthcoming); The Future of Judicial Independence (Toronto: Irwin, 2010) (co-edited with Adam Dodek); Civil Litigation (Toronto: Irwin 2010) (co-authored with Janet Walker); Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009) (co-edited with Peter Russell); Administrative Law in Context (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2008) (co-edited with Colleen Flood).
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