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Contributors

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Marvin J Huberman, LLB, LLM (ADR), CS (Civil Litigation), C Arb,

is a senior barrister, mediator, and chartered arbitrator with over

thirty years’ experience. He represents individual and business

clients, nancial institutions, insurers, and governments in To-

ronto and has acted in cases in the United States, Europe, and

internationally.

Marvin has mediated hundreds of insurance cases and a wide

variety of corporate and commercial matters. He is the recipient of

the 2017 Corporate INTL Magazine Global Award for Partnership Dis-

putes Mediator of the Year in Canada. He has acted as a commercial

arbitrator in complex cross-border matters and disputes in corpor-

ate law, employment law, real estate and leasing, insurance disputes,

intellectual property and high-technology, administrative and

constitutional law, motor vehicle accident, and statutory accident

benet cases for the Financial Services Commission of Ontario. He

has been awarded the Lawyer International Global Award in 2017

for Law Firm of the Year — Commercial Arbitration — Canada.

Marvin is a founding member of the Chief Justice of Ontario’s

Advisory Committee on Professionalism and was appointed by

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the Chief Justice as a member of the Ontario Civil Rules Com-

mittee. He is passionate about commercial arbitration and serves

as an executive committee member of the Toronto Commercial

Arbitration Society.

Authors And Contributors

Robert Armstrong

The Honourable Robert P Armstrong, QC, was appointed direct-

ly from the bar to the Court of Appeal for Ontario on 25 January

2002 and served on that court until 6 March 2013. During his elev-

en years on the court, he sat on nearly 2,000 cases covering a wide

range of commercial, civil, public, administrative, and criminal

law matters. Before his appointment to the Court of Appeal, he

was engaged in a busy litigation practice at Torys. His practice

also covered a variety of matters including cases at all levels of

court and before arbitration panels and administrative tribunals.

He appeared at both the trial and the appellate levels including

the Court of Appeal for Ontario, the Federal Court of Appeal, and

the Supreme Court of Canada. He also acted as commission coun-

sel to a number of commissions of inquiry.

Mr Armstrong was commission counsel to the Dubin Inquiry

into the use of drugs and banned substances in sport. While at

the bar, he was an active member of several legal organizations.

He was Treasurer (Head) of the Law Society of Upper Canada

from 1999 to 2001. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial

Lawyers and was a member of its Board of Regents for a brief per-

iod before his appointment to the court. He was the chair and

president of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies

from 2003 to 2014.

Mr Armstrong is presently a resident arbitrator at Arbitration

Place in Toronto, where he presides over a wide variety of cases.

He received a BA (Hons) from Carleton University, an MA and

LLB from the University of Toronto, and an honorary LLD from

the Law Society of Upper Canada.