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Ron Ellis to Receive OBA Award

Posted on April 14, 2014

Congratulations to one of SOAR’s founding members, S. Ron Ellis, Q.C. recipient of the Ontario Bar Association’s 2014 Tom Marshall Award of Excellence from the Public Sector Lawyers Section.

Ron is former Chair of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Tribunal (now the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal), an eminent scholar and advocate for administrative justice reform (author of the seminal Unjust By Design, nominated for this year’s Donner Price in Public Policy).

Ron will receive the award during the 8th Annual Tom Marshall Award dinner on May 7th, 2014. See the attached invitation for full details.

8th Annual Tom Marshall Award Dinner Invitation

 

 

2013 BCCAT Education Conference Announced

Since 1996, British Columbia Council of Administrative Tribunals (BCCAT), working in collaboration with the BC Ministry of Justice, has played a major role in the training and development of tribunal members, staff and other statutory decision makers in BC. BCCAT is pleased to continue this important function through its 18th Annual Education  Conference, which is focused on access to justice and administrative justice transformation.

The conference will be held at the Delta Vancouver Airport Hotel in Richmond, B.C. on October 20 and 21, 2013.

This in-­‐depth program will bring you valuable workshops, updates, and analysis on significant issues and developments in access to justice, administrative justice transformation, and substantive and procedural issues relevant to decision-­‐makers within the administrative justice system. You will hear from a learned and well-­‐rounded faculty of judges, government representatives, adjudicators, academics, practitioners and others.

To learn more about this event, download the brochure using the link below.

BCCAT 2013 Conference Announcement (PDF)

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