Management Civil

PHILOSOPHY

A professional who strives to serve the public to the best of his abilities.

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

As a legal professional

• served as counsel to the Standing Committee of the Ontario Legislature on Regulations and Private Bills from 1986 to 1988, acting as the Committee's counsel durings its hearings on regulatory reform and playing a major role in developing the Committee's proposed Citizens' Code of Regulatory Fairness as set out in the Committee's Second Report, 1988

• practised law in the litigation department of Fasken & Calvin, a major Canadian law firm as well as in sole practice in administrative, family and insolvency law, and civil and constitutional litigation

• mediated numerous civil actions as a professional mediator appointed by the Mediation Coordinator of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice's Mandatory Mediation Programme

As a community and team member

• received broad exposure to diverse cultural communities through speaking French, Spanish, Hungarian and German and practising community-based law in Toronto

• served as a member of the Case Management Operations Sub-Committee of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Case Management Committee of the Advocates Society, a joint bar committee on Case Management, and a committee of the Ontario Integrated Justice Project

As an educator

• published several professional papers, including education materials used by Ontario judges and lawyers

• presented papers at legal conferences in various fields of law

• taught Ontario Bar Admission Course law students and College students at two Ontario Colleges

EDUCATION

• LL.M. degree, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto

• LL.B. degree, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, graduated with Honours (top ten standing)

• B.Sc. and B.A. degrees, York University

• Alternative Dispute Resolution certificate of the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies

• Arbitration Course of the Arbitrators Institute of Canada

•Common Law/Civil Law Summer Exchange Programme of the Federal Department of Justice, Sherbrooke, Quebec and Ottawa, Ontario

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Practising law in sole practice from 1986 to the present

• Counsel to the Ontario Legislature's Standing Committee on Regulations from 1986 to 1988

• Practising law at Fasken & Calvin, Barristers & Solicitors, Toronto from call to the bar in 1979 to 1986

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Seneca College, Toronto, January, 2006 to the present

• Humber College, Toronto, September to December 2002 and August, 2003 to December 2003

• Seminar instructor in the Law Society of Upper Canada Bar Admission Course (most recently in 2002 in the Civil Litigation section)

• Co-Chair of continuing legal education programmes on Civil Case Management in Toronto held in March, 1998 and January, 1999

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lawyers Association, and Roster Mediator in the Mandatory Mediation Programme, Ontario Superior Court of Justice

PUBLICATIONS

• Focus on Alternative Dispute Resolution: Judges Increasingly Mediating in Ontario and Quebec, Lawyers Weekly, January 21, 2005 (describing judicial mediation at the Court of Appeal for Ontario)

• The Liability of Directors and Officers of Canadian Limited Companies Towards Third Parties, published in Spanish in the electronic edition of the Union Nacional de Juristas, Cuba, Coleccion Juridica No. 9, Year 2, September-October 2001

• Canada’s Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act: Using Canadian Criminal Sanctions to Block U.S. Anti-Cuban Legislation, (1997) 28 Canadian Business Law Journal 210

• The Threshold Motion: What is the Law?, published November, 1994 in the Advocates Society Practical Strategies for Advocates IV programme and subsequently used in a programme for judicial training in the Ontario Court (General Division) [now Ontario Superior Court of Justice]

• Pleading, Proof and Procedure under No-Fault: A Comparative Analysis, (1990) 8 Canadian Journal of Insurance Law 65

• Counsel to the Standing Committee on Regulations Reports to the Ontario Legislature, tabled in 1986-1988

• Overview of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, February 1987, Vol. 6 No. 1 The Advocates Society Journal 14

PAPERS PRESENTED

• "Prisoners’ Voting Rights in Canada- A Comparative Approach" (2006)

• The Canadian Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act and Transnational Bribery Laws (2003)

• Consumer Debt Counselling in Canada (1999) major research paper submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the Part-time LL.M. Course in Bankruptcy and Insolvency at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto Directors’ and Officers’ Liability in Tort (2001)

• Legal Protection of the Family Home against Creditors (1997)

• Canada’s Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act: Using Canadian Criminal Sanctions to Block U.S. Anti-Cuban Legislation (1996)

• D.N.A. Evidence and the Administration of Criminal Justice in Canada (1996)

• Right to Protection of Property against State Action under Canadian Proceeds of Crime Law (1995)

• The Threshold Motion - What is the Law? (1994)

• Pleading, Proof and Procedure under No-Fault (1992)

• Commonwealth Developments in the Control of Delegated Legislation (1986)

• An Overview of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1986)

© 2008 Andrew Dekany

© 2008 Andrew Dekany

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