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Advocates' Journal Vol. 37, No. 1. | SUMMER 2018 The Advocates’ Journal Vol. 37, No. 1; Summer 2018 30 Diversity and inclusion in the courtroom: A necessity, From the Editor 3 27 not a luxury Erin C. Cowling Is your case ripe for summary judgment? The “Path”: A case of pursuing How to get your motion past the gatekeeper dreams, conquering goals 7 30 and cultivating resilience Rafal Szymanski and Megan Hodges Instrumental in conducting change. Marie T. Clemens Why we fall in love with our Managing workplace harassment cases – and how that in the wake of #MeToo 11 33 love blinds us Advocacy—it’s what leaders do. Our dialogue over the last year with the Ministry Miriam Anbar Paul Fruitman of Community and Social Services in Ontario helped to orchestrate progressive change in the way the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) treats personal injury settlements. Contact us to find out more. Laskin’s legacy The good old days Robert A. Centa 13 37 Earl A. Cherniak, Q.C., LSM, ASM The Journal conversation: Ronald Slaght Witty judgments Stephen Grant, LSM, ASM 20 39 Orestes Pasparakis CANADA & USA 1.800.265.8381 | EMAIL [email protected] | www.mckellar.com THE ADVOCATES’ JOURNAL | SUMMER 2018 | 1 FROM THE EDITOR Bordeaux, baseball and civil justice THE ADVOCATES’ SOCIETY PAST PRESIDENTS I read the news today, oh, boy … “A Day in the Life,” Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), The Beatles 1965-66 J. J. Robinette, Q.C. 1992-93 The Hon. Justice Eleanore A. Cronk 1966-67 The Hon. R. F. Reid 1993-94 Roger Oatley 1967-68 The Hon. Justice R. S. Montgomery 1994-95 The Hon. Justice Mary Anne Sanderson 1968-69 The Hon. Justice P. Cory 1995-96 C. Clifford Lax, Q.C., LSM 1969-71 W. B. Williston, Q.C. 1996-97 Margaret A. Ross, LSM or more than a hundred years, Bordeaux (clar- – born decades ago in the labour law context – and its 1971-72 The Hon. Justice W. D. Griffiths 1997-98 The Hon. Justice Harriet Sachs Vol. 37, No. 1. | SUMMER 2018 No. 1. 37, Vol. 1972-73 C. F. McKeon, Q.C. 1998-99 Michael F. Head et, as the British call it) was the connoisseur’s adjunct, arbitration (sometimes, med/arb). While un- 1973-74 A. E. M. Maloney, Q.C. 1999-00 James A. Hodgson choice of wine. Not only was it long-lived, but it doubtedly attractive as an alternative dispute resolution 1974-76 P. B. C. Pepper, Q.C. , LSM 2000-01 Ronald G. Slaght, Q.C., LSM Ftended to rise in value over time. The Brits would say, process – if nothing else, parties are forced to listen to 1976-77 H. G. Chappell, Q.C. 2001-02 J. Bruce Carr-Harris, LSM 1977-78 W. S. Wigle, Q.C. 2002-03 Philippa G. Samworth “Buy three cases, sell two and drink the third for free.” and hear each other – the default to mediation has ad- Summer 2018; Vol. 37, No. 1. 1978-79 The Hon. Justice J. J. Fitzpatrick 2003-04 Jeffrey S. Leon, LSM 216077_Stephen-8 But 216077_Stephen-9the Bordelais failed to216077_Stephen-10 read the market and priced verse, often unintended, consequences. 1979-80 E. A. Cherniak, Q.C., LSM 2004-05 Benjamin Zarnett, LSM themselves out of reach for most consumers; hence, Lawyers of my generation negotiated cases. If the ne- Editor 1980-81 The Hon. Justice J. W. O’Brien 2005-06 Linda Rothstein, LSM Stephen Grant, Stephen Grant, LSM | [email protected] 1981-82 T. H. Rachlin, Q.C. 2006-07 Michael E. Barrack LSM, ASM the staggering rise of Yellow Tail and all the other gotiations cratered, they tried the case. This is what law- 1982-83 K. E. Howie, Q.C. 2007-08 Michael Eizenga cutely labelled and accessibly priced wine available yers knew and judges were appointed to do. Pre-trials Managing Editor 1983-84 J. P. Nelligan, Q.C., LSM 2008-09 Peter J. E. Cronyn today. Bordeaux still clings to the rigid 1855 classifica- to narrow or settle some of the issues were fine, if a little Aaron Dantowitz | [email protected] 1984-85 Peter Webb, Q.C., LSM 2009-10 Sandra A. Forbes 1985-86 Bert Raphael, Q.C., LSM 2010-11 Marie T. Henein tion of growths: only one addition to the first growth light on substance, as many judges didn’t really make Production Editor 1986-87 A. D. Houston, Q.C. 2011-12 Mark D. Lerner category since then, Mouton-Rothschild (quelle sur- the effort. That lawyers knew or ought to know how Sonia Holiad | [email protected] 1987-88 The Hon. Justice J. R. R. Jennings 2012-13 Peter H. Griffin prise). And the prices remain relatively stratospher- to settle cases themselves was the theory. The evolu- 1988-89 R. A. Stradiotto, Q.C., LSM 2013-14 Alan H. Mark 1989-90 The Hon. Justice Peter G. Jarvis 2014-15 Peter J. Lukasiewicz ic while consumers look elsewhere. tion of the law remained dynamic, not stagnant. While The Advocates’ Journal: cite as Adv J 1990-91 John F. Evans, Q.C., LSM 2015-16 Martha A. McCarthy, LSM According to wine-searcher.com, the average price of this ongoing diminishment of jurisprudence is itself 1991-92 Terrence J. O’Sullivan, LSM 2016-17 Bradley E. Berg a 750 ml bottle of 2015 Château Lafite Rothschild is $921. a problem, the default to mediation is creating a class of Editorial Correspondence Stephen Grant, LSM, Grant Crawford Watson LLP A bottle of Yellow Tail cabernet is $10.95 at the LCBO. (If counsel who lack trial skills, which are necessary even 165 Avenue Road, Suite 201 you are interested, the marsupial on the bottle is a yel- in arbitration proceedings. (Interestingly, there appears OFFICERS Toronto, ON, M5R 3S4 216077_Stephen-11 low-footed216077_Stephen-12 rock wallaby, 216077_Stephen-13a relative of the kangaroo.) to be a neurological aspect to mediation. See Advocate [email protected] | 416-238-7776 Closer to home but along similar lines, before the Daily.com, “Neuroscience Knowledge Boosts Settlement Advertising and Subscription Correspondence President: Sonia Bjorkquist embarrassing 1994–95 baseball strike, the club owners Chances”; online: <http://www.advocatedaily.com/eric- Robin Black Vice-president: Brian J. Gover assumed the fans would keep moving through the turn- gossin-neuroscience-knowledge-boosts-settlement- [email protected] | 1-888-597-0243 x.108 Treasurer: J. Scott Maidment Secretary: Guy J. Pratte stiles as they had done for more than a century. Parsimo- chances.html>. Who knew?) Creative Director Executive Director: Alexandra M. Chyczij ny ruled, at least in relation to the fans. Balls hit toward As trials themselves may be waning, these skills re- Jessica Lim [email protected] the stands and retrieved by the ball boys and girls would main essential for those cases that either don’t settle be thrown into a bag to be used later in batting practice or, as importantly, warrant a trial. As a full-time ADR Cover | Justice Served DIRECTORS Illustrated by Ryan Little or some such, ignoring the pleas of young (and old) fans lawyer suggested to me recently (but asked that I not for a souvenir. After the strike, the fans (including me, attribute), it’s the fear of trying a case from lack of skill Paintings, Illustrations and Photography: Frank Addario Rosemary A. Fisher Peter W. Kryworuk Tara M. Sweeney Anja Javelona: p. 11, 33, 37 but for other reasons) stayed away in droves – at least and/or experience that may cause counsel to settle a Sarah J. Armstrong D. Brian Foster, Q.C. R. Reena Lalji Steve J. Tenai Ryan Little: Cover | p. 7, 20-21, 31 until the hopped-up, steroid-infused late 90s, when slug- case unfavourably for the client. Michelle Awad, Q.C. Aaron M. Franks Joseph J. Markson Anne M. Turley Margaret Mulligan: p. 3 (Editor photograph) gers were hitting home runs at a prodigious pace and Having fewer trials may be useful as a societal goal. Martha Pluto: p. 27, 39 Brian A. Babcock P.A. Neena Gupta J. Kenneth McEwan, Marie-Andrée Sandra L. Barton J. Sheldon Hamilton Q.C. Vermette pitchers pitched with seemingly bionic arms. But the lack of the opportunity to garner trial experience The opinions expressed by individual authors are their Colin S. Baxter Eric R. Hoaken Ann L. Morgan Paul B. Vickery But by then, mirabile dictu, the owners had begun ap- doesn’t bode well for the future of advocacy in a courtroom own and do not necessarily reflect the policies of Wendy R. Berman Peter K. Hrastovec David C. Janice L. Wright The Advocates’ Society. Andrew E. Bernstein Dominique T. Nahwegahbow Aaron Dantowitz, preciating the fans for gate receipts and other revenue setting or elsewhere – let alone for civil jurisprudence. Blair W.M. Bowen Hussey Deborah E. Palter ex officio streams, especially as the value of player contracts esca- *** Publications Mail Commercial Sales Agreement No. 40019079 Alexandra S. Clark Mahmud Jamal Lonny J. Rosen, C.S. lated. Now, players themselves are more accommodat- Among the thoughtful gems in this issue of the Journal, K. Erin Cullin Eliot N. Kolers Megan E. Shortreed The Advocates’ Journal is printed in Canada and is published four ing, the ball boys and girls are told to find youngsters Earl Cherniak’s reminiscences hark back to a seeming- times a year by The Advocates’ Society, 250 Yonge Street, Suite 2700, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2L7. Distributed free to all members of to whom to give the baseballs and all is well on the di- ly less frantically paced time in practice.
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