How are our adjudicative tribunals faring? Join us to explore recent successes and on-going struggles, as our expert panel gets you up-to-date on the latest, including:

• Reflections on tribunal clustering and other recent approaches to restructuring
• A view from the trenches:
• Has there been an increase in the rates of success at appeal tribunals, and should we be concerned?
• What is the imapct of the decline in in-person hearings, as tribunals embrace technology and telephone or video hearings?
• How are tribunals coping with delays and backlogs?
• What the ten-year cap means for Ontario's tribunals
• Tribunal evaluation: An update from the OBA Working Group on a Framework for Tribunal Excellence

If your practice takes you before tribunals, make sure you don't miss this critical program to get the information you need.

 

SPEAKERS

Brian Cook, Chair of SOAR's Advocacy and Innovation Committee and Vice-Chair, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
Linda Fuerst, Partner, Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP
Michael Gottheil, Executive Chair, Social Justice Tribunals of Ontario
Nancy Henderson, Executive Director, Parkdale Community Legal Services

PROGRAM CHAIR

S. Ronald Ellis, Q.C., Barrister and Solicitor
Leslie Woo, Hoffer Adler LLP