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Crawley, Alistair Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP
(416) 217-0806 acrawley@cmblaw.ca
Mr. Crawley provides representation and advice in a broad range of
commercial and securities litigation matters, with a focus on the capital
markets and financial services industry. His practice includes corporate
and contractual disputes, take-overs, directors' and officers' liability,
investigations and enforcement hearings, regulatory policy and compliance
advice and investment loss claims.
Cranston, QC, Donald R. Bennett Jones LLP
(780) 917-4267 cranstond@bennettjones.com
Mr. Cranston is a senior partner in the firm's commercial litigation
department. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, medical and legal
malpractice, public administration law and alternative dispute resolution. He
is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a graduate of the Harvard
intensive mediation course, and the elected President of the Law Society
of Alberta.
Cowper, QC, Geoffrey Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(604) 631-3185 gcowper@fasken.com
Mr. Cowper, QC, is a leading general litigator and a leader of the Firm's
Litigation & Dispute Resolution group. He has served as counsel in leading
private and public cases in Canada and internationally. These have included
leading decisions with national and international dimensions respecting
commercial law, public law and human rights.
Coval, Simon R. Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
(604) 631-3152 scoval@fasken.com
Mr. Coval is a leading commercial litigation lawyer, with 75 cases noted
on the BC Court's website plus many arbitration and regulatory hearings.
Prominent Canadian businesses and individuals retain him for disputes
involving contracts, real estate, economic torts, injunctions, companies
and partnerships, civil fraud and white-collar crime.
Coulombe, Marc-André Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-3395 macoulombe@stikeman.com
Mr. Coulombe provides strategic advice on litigious issues and represents
clients at trial and appeal in his litigation practice, which extends to all
areas of commercial law, including contract law, corporate litigation and
shareholder disputes. He has developed a strong expertise in provisional
or extraordinary proceedings, such as injunctive relief and safeguard orders.
Cotter, John C. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
(416) 862-5662 jcotter@osler.com
Mr. Cotter is a litigator with 30 years of experience who focuses on
intellectual property and information technology litigation and has a
commercial litigation background. He has extensive experience in disputes
relating to copyright, trademarks, domain names, trade secrets/confidential
information, counterfeit products, misleading advertising, software licensing
and IT projects.
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be faced with something that goes on for six or ten
years. ey want a fair process and they want to
get it done."
"at lets parties move on with their business,"
says Bombier. And even when arbitration fails to
yield an ideal solution, she maintains it's oen still
an improvement over going to court.
Indeed, decisions made by arbitrators are also
easier to enforce in many countries than court de-
cisions. "You wouldn't have thought so," says Berg.
"One of the most successful and widely interna-
tional conventions is the New York Convention of
1958. It does one thing: Provides for the enforce-
ment of international arbitration awards." So far
more than 100 countries have signed on and new
ones are added every year.
e bottom line is that arbitration is maturing.
More companies are taking advantage of its bene-
fits, the courts are more willing to accept arbitra-
tors' decisions and the level of expertise available
to disputants is rising. We are also seeing the emer-
gence of organizations catering specifically to the
needs of disputants, such as ADR Chambers in To-
ronto and Vancouver Arbitration Chambers, pro-
viding many of the same functions as the courts.
"We now have a pool of expertise," says Berg.
"It's not just a few old guys who are famous and
great but maybe 50 or 100 people who know
arbitration and know the value you can give to
your client."
