Ben Kates
Partner
Experience
Community Involvement
- Volunteer Duty Counsel, Pro Bono Law Ontario Law Help Clinic at the Superior Court of Justice
- Volunteer Duty Counsel, Pro Bono Law Ontario Appeals Assistance Program
- Mentor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Corporate Directorship
- Director and Corporate Secretary, Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers, (2022-present)
- Governor, University of King’s College (2018-2020)
- Director, Music Without Barriers (2015-2018)
Speaking Engagements
Speaker, "Substantive Review & the Charter", Osgoode Hall Law School - Administrative Law course, March 14, 2023
Speaker, Humber College - Sports Business Management Program, March 13, 2023
Speaker, "Impartiality, Bias, Independence", Osgoode Hall Law School - Administrative Law course, February 16, 2023
Speaker, "Delays and Reasons", Osgoode Hall Law School - Administrative Law course, February 7, 2023
Moderator, “How to Mentor: It’s Not About You”, The Advocates’ Society, November 9, 2021
Speaker, “Pre-Hearing Issues,” Administrative Tribunal Advocacy, The Advocates’ Society, April 29, 2021
Speaker, “Quashing the Stigma: Addiction, Mental Illness, and Accommodation”, 2019 CNAR Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, October 30, 2019
Speaker, “The Meaning of #MeToo: Regulating Sexual Misconduct Amidst Normative Change”, 2018 CNAR Conference, Banff, Alberta, October 17, 2018
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Additional Publications:
- Co-Author, “Pardons don’t go far enough. Convictions for cannabis must be expunged, CBC Online, October 29, 2018
- Author, “Private and Public Retail Dispensaries Are the Way to Go, Mr. Ford” iPolitics.ca, August 8, 2018
- Co-Author, ”Pulling Back Anonymous’ Mask: Norwich Orders and Online Defamation,” Ontario Bar Association Institute, Dealing with Online Defamation, February 7, 2018
- Co-Author, “Publication Ban Practice in Ontario”, The Advocates’ Journal, Vol. 36, No. 6, Summer 2017
- Co-Author, “What Legal Weed Needs”, iPolitics, December 23, 2016
- Co-Author, “Confusion Over Pot Laws Has Consequences”, The Toronto Star, August 18, 2016
- Co-Author, “Dealing with a Deadlocked Tribunal”, (September 2016) 29(3) Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice, 333-344
- Co-Author, “Update on Motions for Disqualification of Tribunal Members on Account of Reasonable Apprehension of Bias: The Presumption of Impartiality Revisited”, (October 2015) 28(3), Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice, 309-322
- Author, “The Supply Chain Gang: Enforcing the Rights of Subcontracted Labour in Ontario”, The Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2012