Catherine Peters is a partner in the firm. Catherine provides strategic advice to clients on a wide variety of human rights, employment law, labour relations, and administrative law matters and represents clients before arbitration boards and a variety of administrative tribunals. She is also a former Co-Chair of the firm's Knowledge Management Group.

Recent Speaking Engagements

• February 23, 2007 – Hicks Morley’s Bill 107 Conference
• March 30, 2007 – OPSBA 2007 Labour Relations Symposium – Human Rights in the Workplace
• June 19, 2007 – Hicks Morley’s Attendance Management Conference
• February 12-13, 2008 – Client Training Session regarding Conducting Investigations and Internal University Tribunal Proceedings
• February 25, 2008 – Client Presentation regarding On-Campus Violence Issues
• May-June 2008 – Hicks Morley Client Conference – The Accommodation of Family Status (Toronto, Burlington)

Recent Publications for Clients

• “Are You Ready for Bill 107? Preparing to Meet the Challenge of Ontario’s Human Rights Reform”, presented at Bill 107 Conference on February 23, 2007
• Hicks Morley’s Attendance Management Guide (2007 ed.)
• Client Update (with Dan Michaluk): “Students at Risk – Maintaining Balance After Virginia Tech”, May 15, 2007
• Client Update (with others): “Bill 212 – Ontario Government Overhauls ‘Safe Schools’ Provisions”, June 2007
• Client Update: “Supreme Court Extends Constitutional Protection to the Collective Bargaining Process”, June 14, 2007
• FTR Quarterly: “Workplace Harassment: Employer held liable despite response that was ‘beyond reproach’”, Winter 2008
• 2008 Client Conference Papers: "Dealing with Service-Based Human Rights Complaints"; "Bill 107 Update: A Status Report on Human Rights Reform";  "Arbitration Remedies: Employers Face Higher Awards for Workplace Harassment"
• FTR Now: "Honda Canada Inc. v. Keays: The Supreme Court of Canada strikes down landmark damages award", July 2, 2008
• FTR Now: "The Hydro-Québec Decision: Restoring Balance to the Accommodation Analysis", July 22, 2008
• FTR Now: "Religious Accommodations: Tribunal Finds Two Paid Days of Religious Leave Not Required", Septmeber 11, 2008
• FTR Quarterly: "Boundaries of Religious Accommodation Better Defined", Fall 2008

Selected Publications

• B.J. Bowlby, C. Peters & M. MacKinnon, An Educator's Guide to Special Education Law (Toronto: Aurora Professional Press, 2001). A second edition of this publication is currently in development
• C. Peters, "Disability and the Duty to Accommodate: A Management Perspective", in K. Whitaker et al. (eds.), Labour Arbitration Yearbook 2001 - 2002 (Toronto: Lancaster House, 2002)
• C.L. Peters, "Students at Risk: Legal Perspectives, Principles and Issues", University of Toronto, Students at Risk: Responding to Suicidal and Violent Behaviour on Campus, April 29, 2004
• C. Peters, "Special Education and IBI Therapy: The Ontario Court of Appeal Speaks", (2006) 18:3 Education Today 12
• C.L. Peters, "Restoring Balance to the Accommodation Analysis", Benefits Canada (July 30, 2008)
• C.L. Peters, “S.C.C. on Accommodation I: The Honda Decision – Distinguishing Accommodation from Discrimination”, (2008) 29:3 Rehab Review 14
• C.L. Peters, “S.C.C. on Accommodation II: The Hydro-Québec Decision – Restoring Balance to the Accommodation Analysis”, (2008) 29:3 Rehab Review 21
• C.L. Peters, "Accommodation of Religious Holidays: What Are School Boards' Obligations", (2009) 21:1 Education Today 8 

Year of Call

• 1995 (British Columbia Bar)
• 1993 (Toronto)

Education

• University of Toronto, LL.B.