Tonie Beharrell

Tonie is a lawyer, investigator, trainer, arbitrator, and mediator. She has extensive experience practicing in all areas of human rights, labour, and employment law. Tonie is known for her practical, constructive, and collaborative approach to problem solving and conflict resolution.

Tonie Beharrell has been practicing labour, employment, and human rights law in a range of capacities for over 20 years. From 2003 to 2012, she was a member of the BC Human Rights Tribunal. In that capacity, Tonie mediated hundreds of disputes arising in a range of different contexts (including employment and service provision) and involving a wide range of parties (public sector, private sector, and multi-party mediations). From 2012 to 2021, Tonie was in-house counsel for the Health Sciences Association of BC, and from 2014, head of its legal department. In that capacity, she participated in complex multi-party negotiations and mediations both in relation to union-employer relations as well as inter-union relations in the context of multi-union bargaining associations. Tonie is an experienced instructor, and she has provided training to administrative adjudicators for over a decade as a course coordinator and instructor for the BC Council of Administrative Tribunals. In 2021, Tonie was awarded the BC Council of Administrative Tribunals Recognition Award for Exceptional Service to the Administrative Justice Community in BC.

Tonie’s arbitration approach is built on her many years of adjudication at the BC Human Rights Tribunal, her extensive experience in both management and union-side labour law, and an appreciation of the importance of the process to the parties before her. She was appointed to the Collective Agreement Arbitration Bureau’s Register of Arbitrators in 2023.

• University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law, Bachelor of Laws (1997)
• Simon Fraser University, Bachelor of Arts, Major in Political Science (1994)

• Law Society of British Columbia
• Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch
• BC Council of Administrative Tribunals

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