Course Chairs
Frank A.V. Falzon, QC — Frank A.V. Falzon Law Corporation, Victoria
Elena F. Miller — BC Labour Relations Board, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Frank Falzon, QC graduated from the UVic Faculty of Law in 1986, where he received the Law Society Gold Medal. In 1987-88, he was appointed to serve as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada. He was called to the BC bar in 1989 and commenced practice with the constitutional and administrative law section of the Ministry of Attorney General. Frank entered private practice in Victoria in November 1995 and since that time has acted as legal counsel to a number of statutory decision-makers and officers of the legislature. He has appeared as counsel before administrative tribunals and has appeared at all levels of court in Canada. He has served as a member of several administrative tribunals, has lectured in administrative law, has published several law review articles, is an editor and contributor to CLEBC's British Columbia Administrative Law Practice Manual, and has conducted numerous administrative law training seminars for statutory decision-makers.
Elena Miller is senior in-house legal counsel for the BC Labour Relations Board and the BC 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 sixth year as co-chair of the CLEBC Administrative Law Conference.
Featured Speaker
The Honourable Madam Justice Suzanne Côté — Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa
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The Honourable Suzanne Côté was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on December 1, 2014.
Before her appointment to the SCC, Justice Côté was a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, where she was head of the Montréal office's litigation group. Before joining Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Justice Côté had practised for 23 years at Stikeman Elliott, where she was also head of the Montréal office's litigation group. She specialized in complex civil and commercial litigation, including cases involving manufacturer's liability, class actions, shareholder disputes, and public law.
Before she started working for major law firms, Justice Côté practised for approximately eight years in the Gaspé Peninsula, where she was born.
Justice Côté received the Advocatus Emeritus distinction from the Barreau du Québec in 2011. In addition, she has been a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers since 2005.
Justice Côté's competence as a litigator was recognized on many occasions, including in the following publications: Best Lawyers in Canada (2014) - Corporate and Commercial Litigation and Class Action Litigation; Benchmark Litigation Canada (2014) - Litigation Star (Quebec); BTI Client Service All-Star (2011); The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada (2014) - Litigation - Corporate Commercial; The Lexpert Guide to the Leading Canada/US Cross-Border Litigation Lawyers in Canada (2012) - Corporate Commercial; The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (2014) - Litigation - Corporate Commercial (Most Frequently Recommended), Litigation - Directors’ and Officers’ Liability, Class Actions, Litigation - Public Law, Litigation - Securities; Lexpert Special Edition - Canada’s Leading Litigation Lawyers (2012); Chambers Global guide of the world's leading business lawyers (2014) - Dispute Resolution (Quebec); Le monde juridique (2008) - named litigator of the year; and Lexpert (September 2003), in which Justice Côté was named in a feature article on Canada's 25 best lawyers.
Justice Côté argued cases in various trial courts, as well as in the Quebec Court of Appeal, the Federal Courts and the SCC. She had received an LLB from Université Laval before being called to the Quebec bar in 1981.
Justice Côté has taught evidence and litigation at the École du Barreau du Québec and has also lectured at the Université du Québec à Rimouski and at the Université de Montréal. She has also contributed for many years to the organization of the annual Coupe Guy-Guérin trial advocacy competition, a provincial competition that leads to participation in the Sopinka Cup. Finally, she has given many lectures relating to various areas of the law.
Justice Côté has been a member of the board of directors of the Fondation Jean Duceppe and has also worked for years with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
Originally from the Gaspésie, Justice Côté was a member of the board of directors of the Société d’histoire de la Gaspésie and president of both the Gaspé Chamber of Commerce and the Chambre de Commerce de la Gaspésie.
Faculty
The Honourable Mr. Justice Harvey M. Groberman — Court of Appeal of BC, Vancouver
The Honourable Madam Justice Nitya Iyer — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
The Honourable Madam Justice Neena Sharma — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Paul Daly — University Research Chair in Administrative Law & Governance, University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Jacquie de Aguayo — Chair, BCLRB and BCEST, Vancouver
Alison MacPhail — Acting Chair, BC Review Board, Vancouver
Katie Webber — Legal Counsel, Ministry of Attorney General, Victoria
Karrie A. Wolfe — Legal Counsel, Ministry of Attorney General, Victoria
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