2012 BCCAT Educational Conference and Annual General Meeting
Getting to Resolution: New Horizons in Administrative Justice
was held on October 1, 2012.
For a copy of the final agenda of the conference, please click here.
To read the biographies of some of the presenters, speakers, moderators, and panelists, please click here.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Nina Meierding, MS, JD
Trainer, Negotiation & Mediation Training Services and
Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University
FIRST PLENARY SESSION
Moderator: Walter Pylypchuk, Lawyer
Panel:
Bernard Lemay, Vice President
Aux Operations de la Commission des Lesions Professionnelles
Charles McCullough, Senior Assistant Chief Industrial Appeals Judge
Washington State Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals
Jerry McHale, Q.C., Lam Chair in Law and Public Policy
University of Victoria
SECOND PLENARY SESSION
Moderator: Steve Guthrie, Registrar
Property Assessment Appeal Board
Panel:
Colin Rule, Founder and CEO Modaria
Darin Thompson, Legal Counsel
Justice Services, BC Ministry of Justice
BCCAT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
CONCURRENT SKILLS-BASED WORKSHOPS
A: Strategic Questioning
Nina Meierding
MS, JD, Trainer
Negotiation & Mediation Training Services and Adjunct Professor,
Pepperdine University
B: Hearing Skills
Iain Macdonald
Staff Representative, Advocacy
BC Government & Service
Employees Union
Deirdre Rice
Vice Chair, Workers’ Compensation
Appeal Tribunal
C: Decision Writing
Nitya Iyer
Lawyer
Lovett & Westmacott
Walter Pylypchuk
Lawyer
BCCAT WEBSITE UPDATE
Steve Guthrie, Registrar, Property Assessment Appeal Board
THIRD PLENARY SESSION
Nina Meierding, MS, JD
Trainer, Negotiation & Mediation Training Services and
Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University
Karrie Wolfe
Litigator, Constitutional & Administrative Law Group
BC Ministry of Justice
CLOSING REMARKS
Valli Chettiar, Conference Chair