Born: Toronto, April 26, 1952
Member of the Ontario Bar since: April 1984
Member of the Nova Scotia Bar since: February 1990
Queen’s Counsel (NS): December 2005
Chartered Arbitrator (C. Arb.): January 2010
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb): January 2019
Member, National Academy of Arbitrators: June 2019
LL.B. (Honours) – (University of Toronto, 1982)
M.A. (Social History) – (Essex University, England, 1979)
B.A. (Honours) – (University of Toronto, 1976)
The McCarthy & McCarthy Prize for Administrative Law (aeq.) – (1980 – 1981)
The M.L. Friedland Prize for the best student contribution to legal scholarship published in the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review – (1981 – 1982)
The Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation
Certificate in ADR (Mediation) (2003)
Canadian Condominium Institute
CM 100 (Fundamental Condominium Management Principles, March 2004)
CM 200 (Practical Condominium Management Principles, February 2006)
ADR Institute of Canada
>Certificate in Commercial Arbitration (2004)
Dalhousie Law School
Labour Law (2004, Prof Bruce Archibald, partial audit)
Administration of the Collective Agreement (2004-5, Prof. Innis Christie/Eric Slone, audit)
Canada: Grievance Arbitrator/Unjust Dismissal Adjudicator, Canada Labour Code (since May 2005)
Nova Scotia: Alternate Vice-Chair, NS Labour Relations Board (since October 2006)
General List of Arbitrators, NS Department of Environment and Labour (since March 2005)
Civil Mediation Roster (since May 2006)
Prince Edward Island: Minister’s Labour Arbitration List under the Labour Act (since March 2005)
PART-TIME BOARD MEMBER, FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE LABOUR RELATIONS BOARD
Appointed May 2010 (coterminous with following)
VICE-CHAIR, NS LABOUR RELATIONS BOARD
October 2006 – January 2013
ADJUDICATOR, SMALL CLAIMS COURT OF NOVA SCOTIA
Appointed April 2001 (coterminous with following)
AD+REM ADR SERVICES INC
June 2005 – present; Practice focussed on arbitration, mediation and appellate work
HUESTIS RITCH
Barristers and Solicitors
1200-1809 Barrington Street
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia
September 1990 – June 2006; became partner in 1993; practice included civil and defence (insurance) litigation
LILLY BLOTT
Barristers and Solicitors
TORONTO, Ontario
April 1985 – September 1990; became partner in February 1988
SUPREME COURT OF ONTARIO
Law Clerk to Chief Justice of the High Court of Justice
February 1984 – February 1985
DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY
Manuscript Editor
July 1975 – August 1977