Bill Andrew

Bill Andrew is a lawyer practicing primarily family law in Chilliwack. He was in private practice in Ontario from 1978 to 1994 with his practice having an emphasis on civil litigation. Upon moving to B.C. with his family Bill joined the Legal Services Society and worked in Vancouver, Chilliwack and Surrey in family law He was the managing lawyer of the Surrey Regional office until 2007 when he opened his office in Chilliwack. Bill has been the past president of the Chilliwack Bar Association and a past member of the CBA council for 3 years. He is a family law mediator and has had extensive involvement in mediation in cases concerning child protection matters.

Peter Behie

Peter Behie has a wealth of experience in commercial and personal injury litigation. He has been counsel in several products liability cases that have resulted in major personal injury awards and in numerous cases involving injunctions. Peter has appeared as counsel in a wide range of British Columbia courts and administrative tribunals, including the British Columbia Court of Appeal. Peter also possesses strong mediation skills, and has acted as counsel, mediator, negotiator, and arbitrator on alternative dispute cases and on a number of constitutional law cases.

Peter holds a Bachelor of Arts (Carleton University), a Bachelor of Laws degree (University of Victoria) and a Master of Laws degree (University of California at Berkeley). Following law school Mr. Behie clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada. He was called to the Bar of British Columbia and practiced with a major commercial law firm in Vancouver prior to joining Ramsay Lampman Rhodes.

Peter has taught law school courses in both civil procedure and alternate dispute resolution at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law, and he is Past President of the Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation. He also teaches each year at the PLTC on mediation. He has given CLE papers and Trial Lawyers Papers on procedure and alternative dispute resolution. Peter is a Member of the Rules Revision Committee and has been awarded the CBA Community Service Award.

Raj Dhasi

Raj Dhasi is an organizational development consultant in private practice. Raj provides intervention services to workplace organizations including law firms, corporations, not for profits, public and private organizations and educational institutions. Raj’s services include needs assessments to help uncover the causes of conflict and a wide range of interventions to create and sustain change. These interventions include facilitation, mediation, executive coaching and training. Raj is a faculty member at the Centre for Conflict Resolution and the Child, Family and Community Safety Division at the Justice Institute of B.C. Raj also provides Restorative Justice training and interventions to repair harm and build connections in families, communities and schools across Canada.

Raj holds a B.A. in Adult Education, a M.A. in Organizational Conflict Analysis and Management (with a focus on power dynamics in conflict situations) and is currently studying Neuroscience.

Ian Doddington, CA, CMC

Ian Doddington is an experienced Chartered Accountant and Certified Management Consultant. He obtained his early experience through the management development program of Unilever plc in the UK. After qualifying, he practiced with an international professional services firm for eleven years in Vancouver and Winnipeg prior to joining the Law Society of B.C. as its Practice Management Advisor, a position he held for 19 years before forming his own consulting firm. His current work focuses on providing strategic and business consulting services to government departments, lawyers and other professional service providers. In addition he has been active in facilitation of dispute resolution and has provided such services for clients in all the western Canadian provinces, Yukon Territory and several US states.

He has been a frequent lecturer in practice management related practices for several organizations including Institute of Chartered Accountants, Continuing Legal Education Society, Canadian Bar Association and American Bar Association – Law Practice Management Section. For nine years he was a member of the ABA Task Force on Practice Management Advisors and co-chaired its Practice Quality Standards initiative.

In addition to his responsibilities with the BC Dispute Resolution Practicum Society, for several years he served as Treasurer and Director of both the John Howard Society of Lower Mainland and the Vancouver chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Kelly Doyle

Kelly Doyle is a litigation lawyer. He was called to the bar in 1979 and practices in the areas of commercial litigation, risk management and dispute resolution. He is the founding principal of Doyle PLC - a professional law corporation carrying on practice in Vancouver and Surrey and offering a wide spectrum of litigation and risk management services to clients.

Kelly was Chair of the ADR (Vancouver) subsection of the CBA (BC branch) for three years. He has served as a mediator of commercial, construction, property and employment disputes and sat as an arbitrator.

He is the current Chair of the Pro Bono Standing Committee of the Canadian Bar Association (National). He is also a director and a past president of Pro Bono Law of BC, a non profit society which promotes delivery of legal services to disadvantaged people in our province.

Kelly has written and presented on a variety of topics including dispute resolution, professional responsibility, insolvency, commercial leasing, builders' liens, construction and environmental law. He has taught dispute resolution as an adjunct professor at UBC Law School and his book for professional advisers on risk management entitled Asset Protection was published in October 2005.

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John Sanderson

John Sanderson is a mediator, arbitrator, consultant and lawyer called to the Bar in Ontario and British Columbia.

John has acted as mediator, facilitator and arbitrator across Canada and internationally, in numerous labour and commercial transactions, including insurance claims, corporate contractual disputes, security claims, construction matters and disputes, environmental disputes, inter-governmental disputes, employment matters, in relation to aboriginal claims, and claims of discrimination and violations of human rights. He has advised parties on the design of dispute resolution systems, providing training on ADR techniques and conducted conflict and relationship audits. He is a principal of Conflict Managers Group, an alliance of senior professionals from different disciplines formed to provide advice on all aspects of conflict management, to parties in both the public and private sector across Canada.

John is a member and former Chairman of the Labour Relations Section of the Canadian Bar Association. He is a member of the Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee of the Canadian Bar Association; the B.C. Mediator Roster Society; the Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Ontario and is a panel member of ADR Chambers (Western Canada). He is the President of the Board of Directors of the B.C. Arbitration and Mediation Institute, is a Past-President of the B.C. Chapter of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution, and a former Chair of the Advisory Board to the Centre for Labour and Management Studies, University of British Columbia. He is a member of Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada panel of arbitrators and mediators, member of Canadian Dispute Resolution Corporation panel of mediators, and a senior adjudicator with the Indian Residential School Abuse Adjudication Program. He is also a court appointed arbitrator with respect to Hepatitis C Class Action Claims, and is the Ombudsperson for B.C. Hydro and B.C. Transmission Corporation.

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Paul Taberner LLB, C.Med

Paul is a former lawyer (BC Bar 1971-2006) who now works as a commercial mediator and negotiation consultant/trainer. Paul is a member of the B.C. Mediator Roster (Civil) and is a founding member of and President of the Commercial Mediation Association and a member of CanSolve Global Group of Mediators. Paul is also a Director and President of Core Conflict Resolution Society.

Paul does negotiation training and consulting in affiliation with SNS Strategic Negotiation Services, a global consulting network.