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Welcome to the CCCL

Our Mission -
The purpose of the College is to facilitate and encourage the association of outstanding lawyers who are distinguished for their skill, experience and high standards of professional and ethical conduct in the practice or teaching of construction law and who are dedicated to excellence in the specialized practice of construction law.

Through the association of such members in an environment of collegiality and good fellowship, the College shall strive to nurture, improve and enhance the practice and understanding of construction law.

Officers of the College

Howard Wise

CCCL President
Howard Wise

Contact Infomation

c/o Goodmans LLP
Barristers & Solicitors
250 Yonge Street
Suite 2400
Box 24
Toronto, Ontario
M5B 2M6
Tel: (416) 979-2211
Fax: (416) 979-1234
Direct: (416) 597-4281

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Immediate Past President
Louis-Michel Tremblay

Vice-President
Derek Brindle, Q.C.

Secretary
Marina A. Pratchett, Q.C.

Treasurer
Richard H. Shaban

Program Co-Ordinator

Olivier F. Kott
 


Governors of the College

The Board of Governors includes all of the Officers listed above, all Past Presidents (as ex-officio fellows), as well as:

Matthew Alter

W. Donald Goodfellow, Q.C.

Olivier F. Kott

Roanld W. Price

Joel Richler

Christopher C. Robinson, Q.C.

Lowell Westersund, Q.C.

 


Mike Demers is the CCCL's Website Committee Chair. Send mail to him at mdemers@jml.ca or to Nicholas J. Dasios of Erevna Technologies with questions or comments about this web site.

 

College News

Announcements

The Board of Governors of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers is pleased to announce the induction of three new fellows to the College:

  • Claudia Déry, Norton Rose

  • Matthew Hayes, McInnes Cooper

  • Rocco Sebastiano, Osler

... Click here for the full news release


Fellow Guy Sarault, of Heenan Blaikie LLP’s Montreal office, has authored a very interesting, well written and well researched book on construction claims which has been recently published under the title: "Les Réclamations de L'entrepreneur en Construction en Droit Québécois", Éditions Yvon Blais, 2011. This work, which examines the legal principles related to the claims available to contractors for problems encountered during the course of their work, consists of four chapters.

... Click here for the full news release and link to the work


Featured Article, November 2012

PITFALLS, PERCEPTIONS, AND PROCESSES IN CONSTRUCTION ARBITRATION1

© Harvey J. Kirsh2, Glaholt LLP

"Arbitration is essentially civilized warfare, except we do it in dark suits, and generally there is no blood"3

 

A SURVEY OF SURVEYS


The Protocols
 

In 2010, the College of Commercial Arbitrators (“CCA”) published its landmark booklet entitled “Protocols for Expeditious, Cost-Effective Commercial Arbitration”4. Essentially, the Protocols observed that trial practices were being imported into the arbitration process and that arbitration was beginning to look just like litigation.


The Editors of the Protocols ultimately concluded that lengthy discovery, excessive claims for document production, multiple depositions of witnesses, and numerous motions contribute to greater expense and delays in the arbitration process. The primary recommendation was that “[a]rbitrators must aggressively manage the process from day one of their appointment”. The notion of “control”, particularly over the discovery process and the schedule, was paramount among their recommendations. And at its 2011 annual meeting, the CCA characterized the controlled case management technique as “muscular arbitration”.

 

... Click here for the full article


 

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