Arbitration Series - Session 3
Uses and Abuses of Arbitration: Uber and Beyond

August 14, 2020 - 12:30-2:00pm Eastern Time

Advance registration required no later than Wednesday August 12 at 11:59pm ET.

Registered participants will be sent an email with the ZOOM link the evening before the webinar. (Please check your Spam folder as they often end up there. If you do not receive, please contact [email protected])


Chair: Michael Schafler, BA, LL.B, Q.Arb, Dentons Canada LLP

Panel:
Jonathan Eades, Senior Legal Counsel, BC Ministry of Attorney General;
Alyssa King, JD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Queen’s University;
Marg Wadell, LLB, LLM, Partner/ Class Actions, Commercial Litigation Waddell Phillips

Topics to be covered:

• The decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Uber v Heller
• Unconscionability as a defence to stay applications
• Has arbitration become a tool to limit access to justice and defeat legal rights
• Is competence-competence a benefit or barrier to arbitration, in relation to uneconomic claims
• In the wake of the decision of the SCC can arbitration ever be a ground for resisting a class action where certification criteria are met

Please visit the ADRIC 2020 Conference webpage for additional information.

Members:  $35 plus applicable taxes
Non-Members:  $50 plus applicable taxes

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All speakers subject to change.

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