Early Registration for the next Arbitration Course
EARLY REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE OCTOBER 2021 ARBITRATION COURSE ONLINE AND IF POSSIBLE IN PERSON IN TORONTO AS WELL. THE DATES ARE OCTOBER 18 TO 22. YOU CAN QUALIFY AS AN ARBITRATOR BY TAKING THIS COURSE.
We work hard to make learning Arbitration fun. It is easier to learn when you are not suffering from boredom or brain overload with dry detailed material. Somehow we have managed over the years to make our arbitration training classes interesting and a few students have even called it “exciting”. Our course is a generic arbitration course which qualifies students for being arbitrators in a wide range of disputes and helps lawyers and others understand and be comfortable working in an arbitration process. Arbitration is a method of deciding disputes in a private forum which works very differently from court.
It is not Labour Arbitration, but Labour Arbitrators have found the course very helpful for learning arbitration skills and better understanding their role as arbitrators. In person classes include a working gourmet lunch each day with the cost of meals, refreshments and course certificates from the ADR Institute of Ontario included in the course registration fee. The fee is discounted by $400 for those who take the course online as a result of meal and refreshment cost savings.
The classes in 2021 will include a full day Mock Arbitration hearing and for the third time it will be on the last day of the course. A Mock Arbitration is where the students take over the class for the day to participate in a simulated arbitration hearing. Some students play parties and witnesses including expert witnesses. Subject to the number of students we will run two Mock Arbitrations simultaneously. Some are arbitrators on a panel of three and the rest play lawyers who question witnesses and make legal argument including opening and closing statements to the Arbitration Tribunal who attempt to control the proceedings with a gavel as their only weapon. Gavels are not used in Ontario Courts but they are used in Arbitration. The arbitrators give their decision with oral reasons. The course instructors provide critical feedback after the Mock Arbitration is over. Role assignments will be based on student requests, and the instructors’ efforts at balancing the proceedings so either side has a good chance of winning the case.
The course will include all required content as approved by the ADR Institute of Ontario for Arbitrator membership and Certification and by the Law Society of Upper Canada for CPD credits for lawyers and paralegals. The course has been approved again by the Law Society for CPD credits being 3 hours of Professionalism and 35 hours 45 minutes substantive. We are applying for EDI accreditation for 2021 as well. The course includes material related to Family Law, as arbitration is now playing a greater role in Ontario Family Law in situations where the parties can afford it. Graduates will be qualified (subject to an online ethics test) to apply for the Q. Arb designation of the ADR Institute of Canada which is recognized nationally.