Advocacy in Practice: Mock Arbitration Hearings
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM PST Maritime Labour Centre 111 Victoria Drive Vancouver, BC V5L 4C4
IN PERSON – at the Maritime Labour Centre
Mock arbitration has been an important and popular feature in the VDLC Advocacy classes over the past 9 or 10 years. It has also been part of the class from which students learn a great deal.
This course will consist of mock hearings. It will focus on arbitration hearings and labour board hearings. Students will be provided with a different fact pattern for each of the hearings. Students will also be asked to volunteer for the different roles. At the end of each mock hearing, the instructors and the other students will critique the students’ work.
Facilitators: Leo McGrady, Koskie Glavin Gordon & Susanna Allevato Quail
Leo McGrady specializes in labour law, human rights, class actions, intellectual property, and libel law, all on behalf of unions and employees. Leo has taught advocacy skills at the Faculty of Law UBC, and in the Labour Studies Program at Capilano University. He has been counsel on several thousands of trials, hearings and appeals throughout his career.
Susanna Allevato Quail is a partner at Allevato, Quail & Roy where she practices labour, human rights, and regulatory law. She has experience representing unions and workers across the public and private sectors in arbitration, labour board, human rights tribunal, and court proceedings. Her pro bono work focuses on migrant workers rights and trans equality, and she has litigated precedent-setting cases in these areas. She brings a strong social-justice lens to her work and draws on her experience as a union activist prior to becoming a lawyer.