The following articled called “The Role of Adjudicators: Fairness, Equity and the Courage to Decide” is a thought-provoking article written by Antoine Collins. It was published on December 5, 2025 on the Ontario Bar Association’s website of justmag.ca. His discussion of the role of a decision-maker, and the need for fairness, humility, and courage, particularly…

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, and challenged the fairness of the arbitration process. Key Findings…

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 found the summary of the key lessons very helpful…

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 arose during the actual hearing held at the Sport Dispute…