2012 Conference

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