June 28, 2010
BCF wishes to highlight the appointment of Vikki Andrighetti
BCF is proud to announce the appointment of Vikki Andrighetti as President of the Research and Knowledge Management division of the Canadian Bar Association – Quebec division.

March 3, 2010
Québec Society of Comparative Law's 2010 Seminar
Babak Barin, co-head of the dispute resolution team, will be a speaker at this symposium which will take place on March 19. He will address issues such as arbitration rendered in statutory arbitrations, private clauses and the particularities of the enforcement of arbitral awards in Quebec.

April 29, 2009
Conference on Arbitration in Quebec
Babak Barin and Vikki Andrighetti will be speakers at this event which will take place on May 12 at Hotel Opus. The speakers will discuss many subjects related to arbitration: is it always the best way to deal with commercial disputes, what are the advantages and downsides of using arbitration, international and domestic arbitration. The Hon. J.J. Michel Robert, juge en chef du Québec will be the keynote speaker. The course is accredited for 5 hours with the Barreau du Québec under its continuing education program. Click here to view the program (in French only).

April 1, 2009
Third Annual Energy Arbitration Conference
Babak Barin, coleader of BCF's Dispute Resolution team, will deliver a comparative analysis of Canadian jurisdictions with Mr. Murray Smith in Calgary on May 13. This event is held by the Western Canada Arbitrators RoundTable.

March 13, 2009
Course on Advance Arbitration Law
Babak Barin will be the featured speaker during this event presented on May 1, in Vancouver, by the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia. He will present the following conference: "Holocaust Victims' Asset Litigation and the Claims Resolution Tribunal–Comments from a Canadian Arbitration Practitioner on the US $ 1.25 Billion Swiss Bank Account Settlement Claims Process". For more information,
click here. [PDF]

January, 2009
The second issue of the BCF Arbitration Reporter is dedicated to the enforcement and annulment of arbitral awards in Canada. Éric Ouimet and Frédéric Côté discuss the UNCITRAL Model Law adoption process by the provinces and at the federal level, comment on the differences among the enforcement and annulment regimes which were created in consequence, and identify their practical impacts. The authors also address the differences in the treatment by Canadian courts or arbitral awards as opposed to foreign judgments. [PDF]

January 26, 2009
BCF is pleased to announce that Babak Barin, a partner in our Dispute Resolution Team, is featured in the 2009 edition of Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.

November 11, 2008
Arbitration: Always the best solutions?
Babak Barin, co-leader of the Dispute Resolution Team.