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Our panel consists exclusively of experienced Deputy Judges of the very active Toronto Small Claims Court. In our intimate lounge, our panelists will provide their valuable insights and practical tips about such topics as:
• Pleadings
• Conduct of Counsel
• Motions
• Settlement Conferences
• Trials
• Evidence
• Damages
• Case Management
Deborah C. Anschell is a mediator and arbitrator with ADR Chambers. She has been a Deputy Judge for the Toronto Small Claims Court since 2006. She is a member of the Law Societies of Upper Canada, Alberta and British Columbia. Deborah earned her LL.M. in ADR at Osgoode Hall Law School in 1998 and her LL.B. at the University of Toronto in 1982. Deborah has mediation experience in insurance (disability, life, subrogation, occupier’s liability, fidelity bonds, motor vehicle, property and casualty, professional negligence), real estate, employment, health law and corporate/commercial matters. She also has 20 years of litigation experience, both in private practice and as corporate counsel.
Originally from Alberta, Deborah was a litigation lawyer in private practice in Calgary and Toronto. From 1989 through 2002, Deborah practiced as a litigator with Confederation Life Insurance Company and Manulife Financial.
Deborah was the 2007-2008 Chair of the ADR Section of the Ontario Bar Association, Vice-Chair of the ADR Section for the 2006-2007 term, and Newsletter Editor for the ADR Section from 2002-2005. Deborah is a member of the Advocates’ Society, the Canadian Bar Association and the Toronto Lawyers’ Association. She is a frequent speaker and writer on mediation and litigation for the Canadian Institute, Federated Press and the Ontario Bar Association.
Michael Bay, a former adjudicator with the Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat, speaking in his personal capacity.
Lawyer Michael Bay spent a decade adjudicating the sexual and serious physical abuse claims residential school survivors. He heard over 600 cases from Vancouver Island to the Northern tip of Baffin Island. In preparing for each case, he received voluminous archival materials on each school as well as a lifetime of health, education and other records of the Claimant. A full day was set aside for him to question the Claimant about their life before residential school, their experience at school including the abuse, and the effect that that experience had on them, their family and their community.
Prior to his residential school work, Mr. Bay was the founding Chair of the Consent and Capacity Board. He is also an experienced adult educator, has published dozens of journal articles and delivered many hundreds of presentations in professional setting in Canada and abroad to health care professionals, judicial officers, lawyers and police. He is an associate professor (PT) in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at McMaster University and adjunct professor of nursing at the University of Toronto.
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