In Spinney v. Fowlie, 2025 ONSC 2632, the Ontario Superior Court set aside an arbitration award issued by Arbitrator, Richard W. Pound. The applicants, wrestling coaches David Spinney and Ahmed Shamiyah, had been found to have harassed a former Wrestling Canada official, Dr. Frank Fowlie,
Gowling WLG published this article entitled: “Top 10 Canadian Arbitration Cases of 2024: Key lessons for in-house counsel” on January 21, 2025. It was written by a four Gowling lawyers: Todd J. Burke, Mark W. Crane, Thomas Yates and James Plotkin. As a busy arbitrator, I
Elizabeth Bingham of Rubin Thomlison LLP published this article called: "Who is impartial? Reflections on Toronto Metropolitan Faculty Association v. Toronto Metropolitan University" on December 18, 2024. For any lawyer who also acts as an investigator, I highly recommend that you read this article and
Dr. Despina Mavromati, founder of Sportlegis and fellow member of Women in Sports Law, wrote an informative article called, "International sports-related disputes from 2024 and what to expect in 2025." She writes about certain notable decisions issued by the Court of Arbitration for Sport and
I dealt with a complicated matter of jurisdiction whereby two of the affected parties (the Affected Parties) sought the removal of the arbitrator appointed to hear the merits of this matter (the Appointed Arbitrator) on the grounds of a reasonable apprehension of bias. This challenge