Biographical Information – Chair and Tribunal Members

William Hopkins is a senior civil litigation lawyer with extensive experience in commercial litigation and mediation. His present practice focuses on construction, professional negligence, insurance, securities and commercial disputes. Mr. Hopkins was educated at the University of Calgary, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, and the University of British Columbia where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1979, the British Columbia Bar in 1983 and the Ontario Bar in 1986. Mr. Hopkins has appeared as a trial and appellate counsel in courts in Alberta, Ontario, the Yukon and British Columbia. He has also appeared as counsel before a variety of administrative tribunals, including the Alberta Energy Conservation Board, the Alberta Public Utilities Board and the Ontario Securities Commission. He is a member of the Law Society of BC and the Canadian Bar Association.

Mr. Doan is a partner in the law firm Cleveland & Doan in White Rock, BC. He has practiced business law for over 24 years, with a preference for secured transactions. Mr. Doan has taken secured transactions cases through all level of courts in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, and has appeared a number of times before the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. Doan has published widely in areas of secured transactions, business and enforcement law, and was a contributing editor of The British Columbia Personal Property Security Act Practice Manual. He has taught Bar Admissions courses for 19 years, and lending law courses for the Canadian Banker’s Association and Credit Union Central. In addition, he designed and taught a university law course at Simon Fraser University.

John Hall received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of British Columbia in 1980. He then articled and became an associate with the full-service Vancouver law firm of Alexander, Holburn, Beaudin & Lang. He served as Vice-Chair of the B.C. Labour Relations Board from 1985 to 1987, before returning to private practice as a partner with his former firm.

Mr. Hall was re-appointed to the Labour Relations Board as Associate Chair (Adjudication) in 1992 and was Acting Chair from July to October 1996. He resigned to begin his current arbitration and dispute resolution practice in 1998. Since then, Mr. Hall has also received a number of part-time appointments administrative tribunals, including the Commercial Appeals Commission, the Liquor Appeal Board and the Public Service Appeal Board. He is presently a mediator with the federal Public Service Labour Relations Board, and a part-time member of the Yukon Public Service Labour Relations Board and the B.C. Financial Services Tribunal.

Many of Mr. Hall’s administrative law decisions have been reported nationally since 1985. He was a Director of the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals, the founding President and later Director of the B.C. Council of Administrative Tribunals, and has been Secretary of the B.C. Arbitrators Association since 1999. He regularly instructs a wide range of tribunal adjudicators on hearing skills and decision writing.

Dr. Stanley W. Hamilton is the Philip H. White Professor Emeritus of Urban Land Economics, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia and a member of the Finance Division. Dr. Hamilton has extensive teaching and research experience in the areas of real estate investments and financing, real property assessment and pensions, and is the author of several books, monographs and articles relating to real estate investments and pension investments.

Dr. Hamilton was Chair of the Board of Trustees of the UBC Faculty Pension Plan for 14 years and is past Director of the Bureau of Asset Management at the Sauder School of Business. He continues to act as a consultant in both public and private sector matters relating to real estate and pensions. 

Dr. Hamilton is actively engaged in a number of community organizations including the Vancouver Economic Development Commission, the Investment Advisory Committee for the Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia and the Arts Club Theatre Company.