Personal

Born in 1959. British and Canadian Citizen. Residences in Toronto, Canada and London, U.K.

Barrister (England & Wales), Barrister & Solicitor (Ontario, British Columbia), Mediator and Arbitrator.

Education

B.A. (Honours) Law from Kingston University (formerly Kingston Polytechnic) in 1980. Called to the Bar of England and Wales (Middle Temple) in July 1982. LL.B. from the University of Windsor (Ontario) in 1986 (Dean's Honour Roll). Called to the Ontario Bar and admitted as a solicitor in Ontario in 1987. Admitted pro hac vice by the District Court of the US Virgin Islands in 2003. Called to the British Columbia Bar in 2010.

Professional

Clyde & Co Canada LLP, Lawyers, Partner in the Toronto office

Chambers of Jeremy Stuart-Smith QC (Four New Square), Barristers, Lincoln's Inn, London: Tenant

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

CEDR Accredited Mediator (U.K.)

Ranked by Lexpert Directory as a Leading Practitioner, Litigation – Commercial Insurance, Professional Liability and International Commercial Arbitration and by Best Lawyers in Canada in the fields of Insurance Law and International Arbitration.

Practice

Advocacy

Advocacy in all levels of court in Ontario, including Federal Court and Supreme Court of Canada as well as trial and appellate courts in England & Wales and in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Appearances as counsel before arbitrators, mediators, sport governing bodies and administrative tribunals. Main areas of practice include civil and commercial litigation, public law, private international law, insurance law (including excess and reinsurance issues), contract and tort law (including personal injury, product liability, property and transportation), sports law, business disputes, professional liability (including liability of hospitals, lawyers, physicians and accountants and related insurance issues) and liability of directors and officers (including related insurance issues).

ADR / Judicial

• Arbitrator, Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), Lausanne, Switzerland and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), New York.
• Certified Arbitrator, AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS · U.S.), Mount Vernon, NY
• Panel arbitrator and mediator, ADR Chambers, Sport Resolutions, Sports Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada.
• Member, National Anti-Doping Panel, London (2008-2011)
• Specialist Member, The Football Association Judicial Panel, London
• Judicial officer, International Rugby Board (Dublin, Ireland). An appeal officer at the Rugby World Cup in Australia (2003), France (2007) and New Zealand (2011).
• Arbitrator, CAS ad hoc panel at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, New Delhi, India.
• Mediator in a wide variety of civil disputes under the current mandatory mediation programme of the Ontario Superior Court.
• Private mediation and arbitration assignments have included international, commercial, franchise, professional partnership, real property, professional liability, environmental, intellectual property, insurance, reinsurance and tort/personal injury matters. Has undertaken mediation and/or arbitration work in Canada, the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia and Switzerland.
• In 2005, appointed by the Regional Senior Justice for the Toronto Region of the Ontario Superior Court to conduct pre-trial settlement conferences for “simplified rules” civil cases.

Clients

Domestic and international insurers including Lloyd's underwriters, other financial institutions, private individuals, British, Canadian and international businesses. Municipal, provincial and national governments. Athletes and sport organisations. Honorary legal adviser to the Canadian Rugby Union. Honorary Legal Adviser to HM British Consulate, Toronto.

Memberships

Law Society of Upper Canada; Law Society of British Columbia; Canadian Bar Association; Commonwealth Lawyers' Association; Honourable Society of the Middle Temple; International Bar Association; Advocates’ Society; Metropolitan Toronto Lawyers' Association; Medico-Legal Society of Toronto; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb); Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Ontario; Subscriber, American Arbitration Association; Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR Accredited Mediator); Australia and New Zealand Sports Law Association; Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (US); AIDA Reinsurance & Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS US); Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society (TCAS); Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS).

Publications

The Law of Limitations, Butterworths, Toronto: 1991 (1st ed.), 2004 (2nd ed.)

"Lawyers: The Agony and the Ecstacy of Self-Government" (1989), 9 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 210

"Impact of Part V of the Family Law Act" (1986), 5 Can. J. Insurance Law 42

Case Comment on Knutson v. Farr (1986), 64 Can. Bar Rev. 562

"Seals and Limitations: 872899 Ontario Inc. v Iacovoni" (1999), 21 Adv. Q. 523

"A Clash of Cultures? An Examination of Lawyer's Attitudes to Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution in Ontario" (1999), 12th Commonwealth Law Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

"Taking on the Government in Time: An Overview of Government Limitations" (2000), v.8 No.3 The Litigator 7

Editor, Clarion (a publication of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association), 2001- 4

“Class Proceedings in Canada” (2003), 13th Commonwealth Law Conference, Melbourne, Australia

“The Insurance Defence Lawyer’s Conundrum: Conflicts of Interest and Ethical Dilemmas Between Insurer and Insured” (2003), 26 Adv. Q. 429

“Abusive Limits: M. (K.) v. M. (H.) and a Comparison of the Limitation Periods for Sexual Assault” (2009) 35 Adv. Q. 133 (with Adrian Lomaga)

“Mandatory Mediation: An Oxymoron?” (2009) 16th Commonwealth Law Conference, Hong Kong

“Cross-Border Coverage Issues” (2009) 27 Can. J. Ins. L. 81 (with Morgan Martin)

“Effective Advocacy Through Civility” (2010) Commonwealth Regional Law Conference, Abuja, Nigeria

Other

Special Fellowship Course, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Netherlands, 1993). Advanced Alternative Dispute Resolution Workshop, University of Windsor (Toronto, 1996). Centre for Dispute Resolution (CEDR) mediation training in London, England (1999). Speaker at various seminars and programmes on insurance law, civil litigation, ADR and international law presented by the Ontario Bar Association, the Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association, the Advocates’ Society, the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, Lexpert, the Toronto Lawyers Association, the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association and the Arbitration & Mediation Institute of Ontario (AMIO). Guest instructor, Intensive Trial Advocacy Programme, Osgoode Hall Law School. Former President and Director, Toronto Nomads Rugby Club. Member, Anti-Doping Advisory Committee, International Rugby Board. Director, Artists’ Health Centre Foundation, 2003- Director, Steuart Mew (Underwriting Agencies) Ltd., 1982-1987. Honorary Secretary, Commonwealth Lawyers Association, 2003-5. President, Commonwealth Lawyers Association, 2005-7