Biographical Information – Chair and Members

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.

Mr. Hobart is a financial services consultant based in Vancouver. He provides policy and strategic advice on the effective regulation of the insurance, securities, credit union and pensions sectors.

Prior to working as a consultant, Mr. Hobart served as the Superintendent of Financial Institutions and CEO of the Financial Institutions Commission (FICOM) and as Superintendent of Real Estate and Registrar of Mortgage Brokers from 1989-2001. Prior to his position at the Commission, Mr. Hobart served in progressively responsible management positions in the BC provincial and federal public service.

As a consultant, Mr. Hobart has provided advisory services to the insurance industry and insurance supervisory agencies in a number of African, Asian, European and North American jurisdictions. He has also provided advisory services to credit union supervisory agencies and to credit union directors and management.

Mr. Hobart is a graduate of the University of Alberta with a Masters Degree in Business Administration.

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.

John Savage is a lawyer who has been in private practice since 1978 and is a partner in the Victoria firm of Crease Harman and Company. His practice is primarily focused on administrative law, and he has appeared frequently as counsel before administrative tribunals and as appellate counsel.

He has been a frequent lecturer for Continuing Legal Education and is a long-standing editorial board member responsible for the Real Property Assessment Manual, the chapter author “Appeal Hearings”. Mr. Savage practices before various Administrative Tribunals, has sat as an Adjudicator under the Canada Labour Code, is a member of the Employment Standards Appeal Tribunal, and acts as an arbitrator and counsel in private disputes under the Commercial Arbitration Act.

Mr. Savage is Honourary Counsel for Scouts Canada in British Columbia, and was recently awarded the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal for community service. Mr. Savage is a past Executive Director of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce and Victoria Bar Association.