About the Course Chairs
Frank A.V. Falzon, QC practices constitutional and administrative law in Victoria, British Columbia. After completing law school at the University of Victoria where he received the Law Society Gold Medal (1986), Mr. Falzon clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada (1987-1988) before commencing legal practice with the provincial Ministry of Attorney General (1989). In 1995, Mr. Falzon entered private practice with a practice focus on constitutional and administrative law.
Mr. Falzon has appeared at all levels of court in Canada. He has acted for numerous statutory decision-makers and officers of the legislature. He has been an adjudicator on several administrative tribunals and regularly provides administrative law training to statutory decision-makers.
Mr. Falzon has taught Administrative Law at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law, has published several academic journal articles in the area of Administrative Law, and regularly contributes to CLEBC. When he is not practicing law, Frank can usually be found tending his garden, working out in the gym, or coaching unruly young men on the soccer pitch.
Elena F. Miller is senior in-house legal counsel for the British Columbia Labour Relations Board and the British Columbia Employment Standards Tribunal. She provides internal legal advice to Board and Tribunal staff and adjudicators, and has appeared as counsel for the Board and Tribunal in all levels of court on judicial reviews, appeals, and related matters. She has been seconded to six-month appointments as a Vice-Chair of the Board and a Member of the Tribunal.
Elena has presented papers at administrative and labour law conferences, and authored and updated two chapters of CLEBC’s British Columbia Administrative Law Practice Manual. This is her second year as co-chair of the CLEBC Administrative Law Conference.
About the Featured Speakers
The Honourable Thomas A. Cromwell – Retired Supreme Court of Canada Justice, Ottawa
The Honourable Thomas Cromwell received law degrees from Queen’s and Oxford, practised law in Kingston and Toronto and taught at the faculty of law, Dalhousie University. During his time at Dalhousie, he was active as a labour arbitrator and served as Vice-chair of the Nova Scotia Labour Relations Board. He served as Executive Legal Officer to the Chief Justice Canada from 1992 – 1995 and was appointed to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in 1997. He served there until his appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada in 2008. Justice Cromwell was awarded the C.B.A.’s Louis St. Laurent Award of Excellence and was elected an honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford and of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is the recipient of four honorary doctorates in law and an award in his name, The Honourable Thomas Cromwell Award for Public Service, has been established by the Queen’s law faculty. He is the chair of the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council’s Working Committee on Jury Charges. He retired from the Supreme Court of Canada on September 1st, 2016.
David J. Mullan — Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Kingston
David Mullan is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington (LL.B. and LL.M.), where he commenced his academic career as a Junior Lecturer, and also has an LL.M. from Queen’s University. He taught at Queen's from 1971 to 1973 and again, after four years at Dalhousie University, from 1977 to 2003. At the time of his early retirement, he was the holder of the Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt Professorship in Constitutional and Administrative Law. From 2004 until 2008, David was the first Integrity Commissioner for the City of Toronto, and now is a consultant and researcher.
David has published many articles in the field of Administrative Law as well as prepared reports for various governments, agencies, and Law Commissions, including a 2010 report for Correctional Service Canada on inmate grievance processes. He is the author of Administrative Law in the Essentials of Canadian Law Series (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2001) as well as one of the editors (along with Gus Van Harten, Gerald Heckman and Janna Promislow) of the seventh edition of Evans, Janisch, Mullan and Risk, Administrative Law: Cases, Text, and Materials, published by Emond Montgomery Publications in 2015. From 1983 to 1994, he was editor of the Administrative Law Reports, from 1998 to 2006 a part-time member of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, and, until 2015, a part-time Vice-Chair of the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal. He is currently a member of the NAFTA Chapter 19 Canadian Panel. He is also a frequent speaker at continuing legal education seminars and workshops for members of courts, tribunals, and agencies.
Lorne Sossin – Dean and Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
Lorne Sossin is a Professor and Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, at York University and, since 2015, York’s Presidential Advisor on Community Engagement. Prior to this appointment in 2010, Professor Sossin 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). His teaching interests span administrative and constitutional law, the regulation of professions, civil litigation, public policy and the judicial process. In 2012 and 2013, Dean Sossin was chosen by Canadian Lawyer as one of the 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada. Dean Sossin is also the recipient of the 2012 David Mundell Medal for excellence in Legal Writing.
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). He holds doctorates from the University of Toronto in Political Science and from Columbia University in Law.
Dean Sossin has published numerous books, journal articles, reviews and essays, including Administrative Law in Context, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2013) (co-edited with Colleen Flood); Middle Income Access to Justice (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012) (co-edited with Tony Duggan and Michael Trebilcock); Boundaries of Judicial Review: The Law of Justiciability in Canada, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2012); The Future of Judicial Independence (Toronto: Irwin, 2010) (co-edited with Adam Dodek); Civil Litigation (Toronto: Irwin 2010) (co-authored with Janet Walker); and Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009) (co-edited with Peter Russell).
Dean Sossin served as Research Director for the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Task Force on the Independence of the Bar, and has written commissioned papers for the Gomery Inquiry, the Ipperwash Inquiry, the Goudge Inquiry, Canadian Judicial Council, the Privy Council Office, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. He also serves on the Boards of the Osgoode Society, the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, the Law Commission of Ontario, and is Vice Chair of the Ontario Health Professions Appeal and Review Board and Health Services Appeal and Review Board. Dean Sossin served as Interim Integrity Commissioner for the City of Toronto in 2008-2009, and is currently the Open Meeting Investigator for the City of Toronto. In July 2015, Dean Sossin became Chair of the Board of Reena.
Faculty
The Honourable Thomas A. Cromwell – Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa
The Honourable Madam Justice Lauri Ann Fenlon – Court of Appeal of BC, Vancouver
Nitya Iyer – Lovett Westmacott, Vancouver
Mary Liston – Professor, Faculty of Law at Allard Hall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
David J. Mullan – Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Kingston
Lorne Sossin – Dean and Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
Karrie A. Wolfe – Ministry of Justice, Victoria
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