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Dispute Resolution

Litigation Mediation

Representative assignments and activities involving multiple parties include:

  • Mediated longstanding and deeply acrimonious dispute involving complex commercial arrangements and intellectual property issues between two public companies and individual parties.
  • Mediated complex business issues involving a failed joint venture relationship with multiple parties.
  • Mediated complex issues with respect to waterfront redevelopment including habitat protection and restoration, and contamination.
  • Negotiated resolution of numerous major personal injury cases, and multi-party civil litigation including the comprehensive settlement in 1986 of the mercury pollution issues in the nationally profiled case involving the English-Wabigoon River in Northwestern Ontario and the communities of Whitedog and Grassy Narrows.
  • Reached resolution with major corporate players and regulatory interests to bring into development a major urban development site.
  • Mediation, and facilitation of issues arising out of contaminated sites, with multiple parties, within and outside of a litigation setting.
  • Mediated the resolution of issues arising out of a major receivership with multiple parties.
  • Mediation of a wide range of personal injury and commercial disputes.

Workplace Mediation

Representative assignments and activities as an arbitrator and mediator include:

  • Extensive experience as a labour relations arbitrator and mediator since 1980.
  • Experience in facilitating workplace change initiatives; Senior Vice-Chair Manitoba Labour Board (1980-89; part time); and as dispute resolution consultant to the BC Labour Relations Board (1997).
  • Initiated and gave leadership as President of SPIDR (now ACR) to the development of a widely recognized and applied set of principles and protocols – ADR in the Workplace – in use by major U.S. federal agencies and published by Cornell University.
  • Assignments in a wide range of organizational settings – including as representative on behalf of professional medical association in the first arbitrations under the Canadian Medical System to determine the physicians schedule of fees.