CAROL ROBERTS

Carol Roberts is a lawyer, arbitrator and mediator in private practice. She has extensive experience as an arbitrator in the areas of employment, human rights, workers compensation and real property assessment. Ms. Roberts also conducts harassment complaints and provides conflict of interest/ethics advice to a variety of institutions.

Ms. Roberts is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, an adjudicator with the Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat, a member of the British Columbia Employment Standards Tribunal, a grievance arbitrator, unjust dismissal adjudicator and wage recovery referee under the Canada Labour Code and a Judicial Justice.  Before becoming an arbitrator, Ms. Roberts practiced constitutional and criminal law in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Ms. Roberts obtained her LL.B. from the University of Calgary in 1985. She has also completed Cornell University LL.M. courses in International and Comparative Law at the Sorbonne, studied International Economic Law at the University of Helsinki and has a certificate from the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Ms. Roberts is an active member of the Canadian Bar Association, having served as an executive member of a number of subsections and on the advisory committee to the judicial council. She has also been a member of the Northwest Territories Law Reform Committee and a board member of the National Association of Women and the Law and the British Columbia Arbitration and Mediation Institute.