Champions again at Canadian arbitration moot

Queen’s Law mooters held onto their Canadian title after winning the Mathews Dinsdale National Labour Arbitration Competition for the second year in a row. Advocates Geoff Dunlop and Adriana Zichy, both Law’19, prevailed over the University of Toronto team in the January 28 finals.

Professor Kevin Banks, faculty coach for the tenth year, was full of praise. “Geoff and Adriana were poised in the face of a barrage of questions, concise and articulate in their arguments-in-chief, and brief but brilliant in reply,” he says. Last year’s winners, Stephanie McLoughlin and Geoff Tadema, both Law’18, served as student coaches to Zichy and Dunlop. Larysa Workewych, Law’18, assisted with research. Judging the competition were Supreme Court Justice Malcolm Rowe, Ginette Brazeau, Chair of the Canada Industrial Relations Board, and Bernard Fishbein, Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board.

The Queen’s team had the support of former Dean and Professor Emeritus Don Carter, Law’66, and Kingston labour lawyers Carol MacKillop, Law’94, and Vince Panetta, Law’95. The three have volunteered time and experience many times over the past decade, and Banks is “convinced that their efforts and insights have been key contributors to the success of Queen’s teams.”

— ALEXANDER MCPHERSON