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  • Author: Donald H. Beskind, Anthony J. Bocchino , Oliver Jones , Chen, M , Scragg, R; Taylor, L; Dorset, S; Scragg, J; S , Taylor, G , Stéphane Beaulac , Jay Brecher, B.A., LL.B. , Tracey M. Bailey, B.A., LL.B. & Nola M. Ries , Jeffery Wilson , Vern Krishna CM, Q.C., F.R.S.C., LL.M., DCL, , Kevin P. McGuinness, LL.B., LL.M., S.J.D. , Esther L. Lenkinski, B.A., LL.B., & Alexandra , Hamish C. Stewart, B.A., Ph.D. (Econ.)(Harvar , Milton Davis, B.A., LL.B., Catherine Morin, B
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Donald H. Beskind, Anthony J. Bocchino

Donald H. Beskind


Donald H. Beskind is Professor of the Practice of Law at Duke University School of Law where he directs and teaches in its Trial Practice program and teaches Evidence and Torts. After practicing law in Colorado for several years, Mr. Beskind was, in succession at Duke Law School, a John S. Bradway Fellow, an assistant professor, and an associate professor and the director of the Clinical Legal Studies Program. Mr. Beskind returned to full time private practice from 1980 to 2010 specializing in plaintiff's tort litigation, and was been listed among the "Best Lawyers in America" in various publications since 1993. He continues to practice on a limited basis. Mr. Beskind was a long time program director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He is co-author of BMI v. Minicom, Inc.; State v. Burns; Problems in Trial Advocacy; Effective Use of Courtroom Technology: A Lawyer's Guide to Pretrial and Trial; Developing Deposition Skills and North Carolina Evidentiary Foundations. He has published articles and spoken on evidentiary and trial skills topics and runs trial training programs in the U.S. and Great Britain.

Anthony J. Bocchino


Professor Anthony Bocchino is an honors graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law after which he was a Bradway Fellow at the Duke University School of Law. He served as a full time faculty member at both the University of Connecticut School of Law and the Duke University Law School before joining the Temple University Beasley School of Law faculty in 1979. At the Beasley School of Law for the period 1979 -1989 he was Director of Temple's Trial Advocacy and Clinical Programs. He has designed the program, written materials and taught in the law school's Integrated Trial Advocacy Program which has been twice awarded the Gumpert Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy from the American College of Trial Lawyers, in addition to receiving the Gambrell Award for Teaching Professionalism from the American Bar Association. In 1997 he was named by Temple University as the Jack E. Feinberg Professor of Litigation.

Professor Bocchino has been honored with teaching awards from Duke University School of Law where he received the Mordecai Society Award and the Beasley School of Law where he was the first recipient of the George P. Williams II Memorial Award. In addition, he has received the Oliphant Award from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and the Richard S. Jacobson Award from the Association of Trial Lawyers of America for excellence in teaching the art and science of trial advocacy.

In addition to his law school duties Professor Bocchino has served as a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) since 1974, served as NITA's Director for five years and served as the organization's Editor in Chief. Bocchino has written materials and designed programs for trial, deposition, fact investigation, motion practice and appellate advocacy programs for more than 30 law firms and numerous public agencies. He has also conducted needs analyses and designed litigation skill curricula for numerous law firms. His CLE materials and program designs are among the most frequently utilized by those organizations. In addition, he has and will customize materials to the specific needs of individual clients.

Professor Bocchino is the author of over 60 books and articles, predominantly in the fields of Evidence, Trial Advocacy, Civil Litigation and Professional Responsibility. His trial advocacy and/or deposition practice materials are used in a majority of the law schools in America, as well as in CLE litigation skills training in the public and private sectors.

Professor Bocchino has been elected as a member of the American Law Institute, and named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Litigation Counsel of America and the International Society of Barristers.

Oliver Jones

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Chen, M

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Scragg, R; Taylor, L; Dorset, S; Scragg, J; S

The author team consists of Richard Scragg, Lynne Taylor, Simon Dorset, Jonathan Scragg, Andrew Simpson, Sarah Hughes, Stephen Hunter, Matthew Harris and Aaron Sherriff.

Taylor, G

Graham Taylor is one of the foremost administrative lawyers in New Zealand and currently practices as a barrister in Wellington. He has experience in all aspects of public law, having worked in the senior Australian public service, been a member of tribunals, and legal counsel to the New Zealand Ombudsmen, as well as the private practice of law and spent ten years as an academic.

Rosaleen Taylor is a practicing barrister as well since 1995.

Stéphane Beaulac

Stéphane Beaulac est professeur titulaire à la Faculté de droit de l'Université de Montréal. Il a débuté sa carrière à Dalhousie Law School, en 1998. Il enseigne notamment le droit international public, le droit international des droits humains et l'interprétation des lois. Il est docteur (Ph.D.) en droit public international de l'Université de Cambridge (Collège Darwin), d'où il détient aussi un LL.M. (first class honour).

Sa formation est bijuridique : droit civil à Ottawa (summa cum laude) et common law à Dalhousie (premier au programme national). Il fut clerc juridique à la Cour suprême du Canada, auprès de la juge Claire L'Heureux-Dubé. ? plusieurs reprises, il fut chercheur et professeur invité en Europe : fellowship Max Weber à l'Institut universitaire européen de Florence; fellowship Neil MacCormick à l'Université d'?dimbourg; séjour au Centre de droit international d'Amsterdam, à l'Institut de justice transitionnelle d'Ulster et au Centre de droit constitutionnel comparé de l'Université de Trente.

Le professeur Beaulac est l'auteur, le coauteur ou le codirecteur d'une douzaine de livres, dont The Power of Language in the Making of International Law (2004), International Human Rights and Canadian Law (2007), Précis d'interprétation législative (2008), Interpretatio non cessat (2011), Précis de droit international public (2012), Charte canadienne des droits et libertés (2013). Il a aussi publié un grand nombre d'articles de doctrine dans des revues savantes (environ 60 textes). Il publiera prochainement un ouvrage, cosigné avec Frédéric Bérard, portant sur le droit à la sécession.

Membre du Barreau de l'Ontario, Me Beaulac a participé aux travaux de comités parlementaires à Ottawa; souvent invité à intervenir dans les médias, il est un intellectuel public et engagé dans les débats chauds en droit public, au pays et à l'international (Sénat, conflit étudiant, Kosovo).


Frédéric Bérard


Frédéric Bérard est titulaire d'un baccalauréat en droit de l'Université de Montréal et d'une ma?trise en sciences politiques de l'Université McGill, où il a également poursuivi des études doctorales et re?u la prestigieuse Bourse CRSH. Chargé de cours à la Faculté de droit de l'Université de Montréal depuis 2003, où il enseigne des cours en droit constitutionnel, en droit administratif et en interprétation des lois, Me Bérard est le quintuple récipiendaire du Prix d'excellence professorale André-Morel, en 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 et 2014. Il figure également, à titre d'étudiant, sur la liste d'excellence de cette même faculté, où il est actuellement doctorant. En plus d'avoir pratiqué le litige commercial et administratif au sein du cabinet Stikeman Elliott, il a été conseiller constitutionnel auprès de divers ministres et parlementaires au niveau fédéral et provincial. Il est notamment auteur des textes et ouvrages suivants : Fiscalité, financement public et pouvoir de dépenser (JurisClasseur 2011); La classification des actes administratifs (JurisClasseur 2013); La fin de l'?tat de droit (?ditions XYZ 2014); Le pouvoir réglementaire : caractéristiques générales et conditions de validité (Actualité juridique municipale 2014); De l'importance capitale de l'?tat de droit (?ditions Dialogue Nord-Sud 2014). Il publiera prochainement un ouvrage, cosigné avec Stéphane Beaulac, portant sur le droit à la sécession. Me Bérard intervient régulièrement auprès des divers médias québécois afin de commenter l'actualité juridico-politique.

Jay Brecher, B.A., LL.B.

Jay Brecher, B.A., LL.B., manages LexisNexis Canada's legal writing team, and he is also the Managing Editor of Halsbury's Laws of Canada. He has extensive experience as a legal researcher, writer and editor. He has authored or co-authored several Halsbury's titles, including Athletics, Civil Procedure and Judges and Courts, and he has served as a contributing editor for numerous others, including Administrative Law, Employment and Torts. Keenly interested in social justice issues, for over a decade he has been actively involved as a volunteer coordinator and fundraiser for Lawyers Feed the Hungry, a meal program administered by the Law Society of Upper Canada. As a member of LexisNexis Canada's Rule of Law Committee, he co-founded the LexisNexis Book Bank, which has donated thousands of legal textbooks to students in developing countries, including Afghanistan, Cambodia and Vietnam. While in law school, he volunteered as a legal researcher and advocate for the London Unemployment Help Centre.

Tracey M. Bailey, B.A., LL.B. & Nola M. Ries

Tracey M. Bailey, B.A., LL.B., is the Executive Director of the Health Law Institute, an Adjunct Professor with the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and a Sessional Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. She is co-editor of the Health Law Journal and the Health Law Review and has authored numerous other articles and reports, and is currently a member of numerous ethics and policy related committees.

Nola M. Ries, MPA, LLM, is a Research Associate with the Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria where she teaches courses in health law with the Faculty of Law and School of Health Information Science. She also offers consulting services to clients in health, government, academic and not-for-profit sectors. Nola has authored over 50 articles, book chapters and major reports on various topics in health law and policy.

In addition, the Public Health title benefits from the combined expertise of many of Canada's leading specialists in public health law and medicine.

Joanna Harrington, B.A. (U. Brit. Col.), LL.B. (U. Victoria), Ph.D. (Cambridge), is a Professor with the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta and a recognized expert in both constitutional law and public international law. She was a member of Canadian delegations to the United Nations General Assembly and the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and has participated in the negotiation of new human rights instruments at both the United Nations and the Organization of American States. Professor Harrington has also worked as consultant with the British Council and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and she has assisted counsel litigating extradition and national security cases in domestic courts, as well as international human rights cases before the (United Nations) Human Rights Committee and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Jeffery Wilson

Jeffery Wilson has practiced law for thirty years, and is a certified Law Society of Upper Canada "Specialist in Family Law". Mr. Wilson, who graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Bar in 1978, is the Senior Partner at Wilson Christen LLP. Jeffery Wilson is an accredited family law Arbitrator, and Author of Wilson On Children and the Law, a 1,500 page loose-leaf service publication, in its 31st year of publication. He is the Editor of Ontario Family Law Reporter, a monthly family law reporting service and practice commentary, also in its 31st year of publication. Mr. Wilson has lectured in Canada and abroad, largely in relation to his extensive involvement with private non-governmental organizations. He spoke in San Diego at the first Tri-Nation Child labor Conference convened under the North American Agreement on labor Cooperation. He was also the Canadian speaker at the commemorative meeting on the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and traveled to Geneva on behalf of the Canadian Coalition on the Rights of Children to address the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Canada's performance under the Convention. Most recently, Mr. Wilson presented the 5th Annual Lowery Lecture on Children's Rights under the auspices of defense for Children International Canada. He is a founding member and Director to the Toronto-based clinic Justice for Children and Youth, and creator of The Law and Youth: Taking Ownership of Knowledge for power workshop series. He is a recipient of the prestigious Advocates' Society Award of Justice for his advocacy and was selected by the National Post as among Canada's best family law lawyers. Mr. Wilson is currently teaching as Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

Vern Krishna CM, Q.C., F.R.S.C., LL.M., DCL,

Vern Krishna, C.M., Q.C., LL.M., LL.D., FCGA is Tax Counsel with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP and one of Canada's leading authorities on income taxation in Canada. Mr. Krishna graduated from the University of Manchester (U.K.) with a B.Comm.; the University of Alberta with an MBA and an LL.B.; Harvard Law School with an LL.M.; and Cambridge University (U.K.) with a Diploma in Comparative Law. He is a member of the Ontario Bar (1983), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Certified General Accountants of Canada, Queen's Counsel, and a member of the Order of Canada. Mr. Krishna was the Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada (2001–2003) and is the author of numerous books on domestic and international taxation. He acts as counsel in tax litigation, international tax planning, and wealth management with BLG.

Kevin P. McGuinness, LL.B., LL.M., S.J.D.

Kevin P. McGuinness, LL.B., LL.M., S.J.D., is an Ontario lawyer of more than 30 years experience and is Counsel in the Crown Law Office of the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 legal texts, including The Law of Guarantee, Canadian Business Corporations Law , Canadian Civil Procedure Law and the Halsbury's Laws of Canada titles Business Corporations , Civil Procedure and Restitution

Esther L. Lenkinski, B.A., LL.B., & Alexandra

Esther L. Lenkinski, B.A., LL.B., of the Ontario Bar, practices family law at Lenkinski Family Law and Mediation. She is a Certified Specialist in family law and the former Head of the Advocates' Society family law section. She frequently appears as a panelist and lecturer at various legal education programs in family law. Her previous publications include Practical Guide to the Family Law Act, 1986 and The Arbitration Process in Family Law. She has acted as Lead Counsel in many important family law cases, including most recently (and successfully) the Court of Appeal's decision in Tierney-Hynes v. Hynes, and the rulings in Sarafinchin v. Sarafinchin, and Sirdevan v. Sirdevan.


Alexandra Carr, B.Sc., LL.B., practices family law and estate litigation at Lenkinski Family Law and Mediation. Prior to joining the firm in January 2014, Alex practiced civil, commercial, class action and public litigation at the boutique litigation firm where she articled. In 2013, Alex was co-counsel for the Elliot Lake Mall Action Committee in the Elliot Lake Public Inquiry. She is a member of the Ontario Bar Association, the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Advocates Society.

Hamish C. Stewart, B.A., Ph.D. (Econ.)(Harvar

Hamish C. Stewart, B.A., Ph.D. (Econ.)(Harvard), LL.B., is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, where his teaching and scholarship are focused on the law of evidence, criminal law and legal theory. Professor Stewart has published widely in these fields, and has also contributed papers on the topics of contract law and economic methodology. The general editor of Evidence: A Canadian Casebook, 2nd Edition, an associate editor of the Canadian Criminal Cases, and book review editor of the University of Toronto Law Journal, Professor Stewart has served as law clerk to the judges of the Ontario Court of Appeal (1992-1993) and has taught economics at Williams College.

Milton Davis, B.A., LL.B., Catherine Morin, B

Milton Davis, B.A., LL.B., is a partner in the litigation group at Fogler Rubinoff LLP. Previously, he was the managing partner of Davis Moldaver LLP. Mr. Davis has practiced extensively in the areas of banking and real estate litigation, corporate and shareholder disputes, mortgage remedies and professional negligence. He is certified as a specialist in civil litigation. Mr. Davis has been involved as counsel in over 200 reported decisions, at all levels including the Supreme Court of Canada. He has been involved in a number of the leading cases involving professional negligence claims against lawyers and others. He has also acted in many significant real estate and mortgage cases at both the trial and appellate level. Mr. Davis is listed as a leading practioner in both Lexpert and Best Lawyers in Canada. For over twenty-five years, Mr. Davis has represented some of the largest financial institutions in Canada. Accordingly, he continues to be on the recommended list of counsel for one of Canada's largest banks. He has lectured and written extensively in the areas of real estate, mortgage remedies, injunctions, advocacy and trial advocacy. He has lectured and taught at the Osgoode Hall Law School Trial Advocacy Program, and the Bar Admission Course. He continues to lecture and teach at various continuing education programs. In 2014, he served as Chair of the Osgoode Professional Development Centre's Short Course in Debtor-Creditor Litigation.

Catherine Morin, B.Mus. (Hons.), LL.B., is a legal researcher and writer for LexisNexis Canada Inc., where she serves as law and content editor for Halsbury's? Laws of Canada. A former practitioner, Ms. Morin has been responsible for re-structuring and overseeing the production of various digest products, including NetLetters&? and the Canadian Weekly Law Sheet, where her duties included editing and writing case law summaries spanning a broad range of legal topics. She is also Author of several Halsbury's Laws of Canada, First Edition titles, including Gifts, Holidays Hospitality, Missing Persons and Absentees, Roads, Highways and Bridges, and has served as a contributing Editor on others, such as Infants and Children.

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