SIRC's Seminar Series

Dispute Prevention and Resolution

Tuesday February 12, 2008

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Speakers:

Allan Stitt Chair of the Board, SDRCC

Marie-Claude Asselin Executive Director and & CEO, SDRCC

Fredy Iuni Education and Communication Coordinator, SDRCC

As the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games are approaching, berths on the Canadian Team are becoming more and more contentious. Decisions are already being made that will affect the team selection for Vancouver-Whistler in 2010. Will your federation be able to avoid the hardship of team selection disputes on the way to those Games?

Come and meet the experts of the SDRCC to find out how the SDRCC’s new strategy in sports-related dispute prevention can assist you with these challenges. During this two hour session, you will learn what services the SDRCC can offer that will help you reduce the risks of disputes arising from your team selection, carding, and eligibility or discipline decisions.

Allan Stitt will talk about the resolution facilitation process, the newest service offered by the SDRCC to help NSOs and MSOs handle disputes before they grow and affect relationships with and between your members.

Marie-Claude Asselin and Fredy Iuni will lead an interactive exercise, based on real SDRCC team selection cases from the recent past, during which you will have an opportunity to learn key lessons that will enable you to better prevent team selection disputes in your sport.

As leaders in the Canadian sport system, your roles and responsibilities in policy making and in decision making are crucial to creating and fostering a culture of fairness in your sport; as well as to ensure that your members maintain positive and fruitful relationships in and out of competition. The dispute prevention strategies now offered by the SDRCC, can provide you with the knowledge and tools to do just that.

About the speakers:

ALLAN STITT, Chair of the Board of Directors, Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC). Allan Stitt, B.Comm, LL.B., J.D., LL.M., C.Med., C.Arb., is the President of ADR Chambers and the Stitt Feld Handy Group. He is a Toronto based mediator, arbitrator, negotiation consultant, facilitator, trainer, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) systems design specialist. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Law School and a Lecturer at University of Windsor Law School, teaching courses in Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He has also taught courses at the University of Notre Dame Law School (as an Assistant Adjunct Professor) and at the University of Lisbon (Portugal). He has designed and taught workshops in Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. He earned his Master of Laws at Harvard Law School where he first studied ADR. Allan is the Past President of the ADR Institute of Canada and is the current Chair of the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada. He is the recipient of the 2006 Ontario Bar Association Award of Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution. Allan is a Fellow, International Academy of Mediators and is both a Chartered Mediator and a Chartered Arbitrator. He has mediated two-party and multi-party disputes in a variety of contexts and has arbitrated numerous commercial cases. His books, Alternative Dispute Resolution for Organizations and Mediating Commercial Disputes, were both Business Books bestsellers. He also wrote Mediation: A Practical Guide (2004) and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the CCH ADR Practice Manual.

MARIE-CLAUDE ASSELIN, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC). She holds bachelor and master’s degrees in Physical Activity Sciences from Université Laval and she is also a doctoral candidate in Sociology. Prior to joining the SDRCC in April 2007, she was Manager of Education at the World Anti-Doping Agency, where she created the social science research grant program and developed a doping prevention program for coaches. From 1997 to 2002, while employed by the Canadian Olympic Committee, she held responsibilities in Games and high performance services involving team selection, accreditation and performance analysis, as well as in athlete services in the coordination of programs offered through the Canadian Sport Centres. She coached basketball and ice hockey for over 17 years and was an NCCP learning facilitator for 7 years for multi-sport components as well as for technical components in basketball. An official for over 13 years on basketball referee boards in Quebec and Ontario, she also acted as assignor, instructor, supervisor, and administrator in the officiating circles.

FREDY IUNI, Education and Communication Coordinator of the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC). He has a Bachelor’s in Psychology and a Master’s in Educational Technology, Fredy recently joined the SDRCC. He is responsible for the Dispute Prevention Resource Centre and for the development and delivery of content through the website, publications and presentations.

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