Front Line Adjudicator Training (FLAT)
 

Tuesday April 5 and Wednesday April 6, 2016
9:00 am - 4:30 pm

The Advocates’ Society Education Centre

250 Yonge Street, Suite 2700, Toronto, ON 

Registration Fee: $1000 + HST (for 2 days)*

*Fee Includes breakfast, lunch and refreshments

Registration is limited

This interactive two-day course is designed for ministry, agency, tribunal staff  (federal, provincial and municipal) who gather information, perform research, investigate and make decisions or recommendations about benefits or violations under legislation, regulations and professional codes, without holding a hearing.

Through lectures and small-group work, participants will learn about their role as decision-makers within their respective organizations as well as administrative law, statutory interpretation, information gathering; and decision-making.  Participants will have the opportunity to work through a case study in small groups with the assistance of our expert facilitators and faculty.

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Enhance their role as decision-makers for their agency/ministry/organization/regulator;

• Understand and apply the basic principles of administrative law, including procedural fairness and natural justice, to their work;

• Apply methods of reading and interpreting legislation;

• Gather relevant information for decision-making process and identify the issues within the context of the relevant legislation;

• Incorporate the steps in the decision-making process to their work as front line decision-makers.

PROGRAM DIRECTORS:

Kwame Addo, Interim Ombudsman, City of Toronto

John Gayle, Analyst, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner

CONFIRMED FACULTY:

Gareth Jones, Director, Special Ombudsman Response Team, Ombudsman Ontario

Janet Leiper, Criminal Lawyer, Commissioner at the Ontario Securities Commission

Leonard Marvy, Solicitor, Ontario Labour Relations Board

Mike Moodie, Manager, Investigations, Tax Compliance & Benefits, Ministry of Finance

Zeynep Onen, Vice-Chair, Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal

Mital Patel, Early Resolution Officer, Office of the Ontario Ombudsman

Victoria Peace, Agency and Tribunals Division, Tribunal Relations Branch, Ministry of the Attorney General 

Laura Pettigrew, Senior Counsel, Office of the Ombudsman of Ontario,

Karima Shamji-Chatur, Mediator, Ontario Labour Relations Board

Sarah Schumacher, Associate Counsel, Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal

and other experts in their field

REGISTER EARLY AS SPACE WILL BE LIMITED