I have practiced,
written, consulted, taught, and spoke in the areas of environmental and natural
resources law for many years. The following provides a general biographical overview:
Education
and Licensing
Certified as Specialist in Environmental Law, Law
Society of Upper Canada, 2007
Called to British Columbia Bar, 1998
LL.M,
(Environmental & Natural Resources Law), Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, 1997
Called to Ontario Bar, 1986
LL.B., Faculty
of Law, Queen’s University, 1984
Courts
Appeared Before
Federal
Court of Appeal
Ontario
Court of Appeal
Superior
Court of Ontario
Divisional
Court of Ontario
Federal
Court (formerly Trial Division)
Administrative
Tribunals or Bodies Appeared Before
National
Energy Board
Alachlor
Review Board
Ontario
Municipal Board (OMB)
Environmental
Assessment Board (EAB)
Environmental
Review Tribunal (ERT) (formerly
EAB)
Joint
Board (under Consolidated Hearings Act)
Hearing
Officers under Niagara Escarpment Planning and
Development Act
Niagara
Escarpment Commission
Ontario
Energy Board
Walkerton
Commission of Inquiry
Lieutenant
Governor in Council for Ontario (Cabinet Appeals)
Memberships
(Past and Present)
Law Society
of Upper Canada
Law Society
of British Columbia
Canadian
Bar Association – British Columbia, Environmental
Law Section
Environmental
Assessment Board Advisory Committee
International
Joint Commission, Science Advisory Board, Societal
Aspects Committee
National
Advisory Council on the Transportation of Dangerous
Goods
Canadian
Environmental Law Association, Board of Directors
Publications
Written For (and Subject Matter)
Newspapers
Globe and Mail
(environmental rights; toxic substances)
Law
Journals
Osgoode
Hall Law Journal (toxic substances)
International
Journal of Environmental Law & Policy (Great
Lakes and land use)
Queen’s
Law Journal (environmental expert evidence)
Villanova
Environmental Law Journal (environmental
rights laws)
Criminal
Reports (constitutionality of Canadian Environmental
Protection Act)
University
of British Columbia Law Review (mining)
Canadian
Environmental Law Reports (logging, mining, Crown land management)
Environment
Law Journal (nutrient
management and land use)
Journal
of Environmental Law and Practice (hazardous
waste)
Books
Environmental
Law and Policy (chapter
on toxic real estate, contaminated lands, and
insurance)
Environmental
Rights in Canada (chapter
on regulation-making process)
Environment
on Trial (chapter on pesticides)
Reports
for Government
International
Joint Commission (Great Lakes & land use)
NAFTA
Commission for Environmental Cooperation (indicators
of effective environmental enforcement)
Law Reform
Commission of Canada (pesticides)
National
Orphaned/Abandoned Mines Initiative (collaboration,
funding, regulation, liability)
National
Roundtable on the Environment & the Economy (legal authority for emissions trading)
Ontario
Government (environmental
agency regulation models - part of Gibbons Report)
Teaching
Faculty
of Law, Queen’s University, 1990-2006 (courses and seminars
on environmental protection law, and environmental assessment
& natural resources law)
Faculty
of Law, University of Toronto, 1991, 1992, 1998 (seminars on environmental law)
Osgoode
Hall Law School, York University, 1993 (course
on environmental law)
School
of Public Administration, Queen’s University, 1992-1993 (courses on environmental policy)
Law Society
of Upper Canada, Department
of Continuing Education, 1994 (update
on developments in federal & Ontario environmental
law)
Law Society
of Upper Canada, Bar Admission Course, 1997-2005
(instructor in public law - administrative law & Charter remedies)
Law Society
of Upper Canada, Bar Admission Course, 2000-2005
(instructor in civil litigation)
Law Society
of Upper Canada, Skills & Professional Responsibility
Program, 2006 (instructor)
Speaking
(and Subject Matter)
Canadian
Bar Association (access to information, civil
actions & compensation for environmental contamination)
Insight
(interventions before environmental tribunals,
drinking water standard of care)
Canadian
Institute (air and water pollution law, lender
environmental liability, drinking water source
protection, abandoned mines)
Environmental
Commissioner of Ontario (environmental
rights)
