Course Chairs
Brad Cocke — Cooperwilliams Truman & Ito LLP, Vancouver
Peter Eastwood — HHBG Lawyers, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Brad Cocke assists public and private sector employers with workers' compensation, occupational health and safety, labour, employment, and human rights matters.
Brad has a particular focus on, and extensive experience in, advising employers with respect to worker injury claims, compliance with occupational health and safety laws, bullying and harassment complaints, and prohibited action complaints. In addition to his focus on workers' compensation and OHS issues, Brad regularly advises employers on employee substance use issues, complex accommodation cases, grievances, and collective agreement interpretations as they relate to day-to-day operations.
Peter Eastwood is a labour and employment lawyer at HHBG Lawyers in Vancouver. Called to the bar in 2003, Peter assists employees and unions with a wide variety of workplace issues, often involving illness and disability, human rights, conduct issues and workplace investigations, professional discipline and other regulatory matters, and judicial reviews of administrative decisions relating to employment.
He has extensive experience with WorkSafeBC matters, and often assists workers with claims, occupational health and safety, and appeals before the Review Division and Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal. Since 2014, he has been selected by his peers to be listed in the annual editions of Best Lawyers in Canada, and since 2018 has been included in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in the Employment (Employee) practice area.
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British Columbia Administrative Law Practice Manual
Strategies for effective administrative law advocacy
This publication is essential for: lawyers, decision-makers, and judges whose work involves federal or BC administrative law decision-making
Current to: May 1, 2023
Administrative law is complex and requires specialized knowledge. British Columbia Administrative Law Practice Manual offers you a guide to navigating administrative law and procedure with advice on fundamental administrative law concepts, case preparation and advocacy, the role of evidence and parties, and the process for reviews and appeals. Covering decision-makers and courts at both federal and provincial levels, this manual provides access to sample forms annotated with commentary and a curated bibliography of other useful administrative law resources.
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Highlights of the 2023 Update include:
- post-Vavilov developments in standard of review and procedural fairness jurisprudence at SCC and below, impact on lower authorities
- SCC: new correctness category in context of concurrent first-instance jurisdiction between courts and administrative bodies
- SCC: institutional role of interveners
- BCCA: new correctness category in context of jurisdictional boundaries between administrative decision-makers and legislative bodies
- FCA: development in the test for intervention at the Federal Court
- expansion of test for legal threshold for standing
- increasing prevalence of appointment of amici curiae
- JRPA amendment to enable judicial review of Indigenous governing bodies when consent agreements reached for joint decision-making