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Login to watch this video if you have a subscription. Learn more about subscriptions.Justice Nathalie Champagne, Justice Charles Hackland, Justice Kristin Muszynski, Justice Marc Smith, and Tina Hill present this program on all things damages (not just personal injury!)
Justice Champagne is the former case management master of the Superior Court of Justice. She was appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Justice in Cornwall in May 2018. Prior to her appointment as a case management master, Justice Champagne enjoyed an 18-year career with Legal Aid Ontario, last serving as Director General for the Eastern District. In that capacity, she served a vulnerable client population, about which she is passionate. She has case-managed many criminal and family law matters and conducted mediations and settlement conferences in family and child protection files. She has also helped implement a number of local court-based projects, including the first Family Law Information Centre in Ontario, Drug Treatment Court, Pathways Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Coordinated Case Management, among others. Prior to joining Legal Aid Ontario, Justice Champagne practiced family law, criminal law, and civil litigation. She has served on a number of committees and boards, including the Board of Directors of Action Logement. Outside of law, Justice Champagne volunteers in her community and has served as a leader for the Girl Guides of Canada, as a Sunday school teacher, and as a director and teacher for a local non-profit children's drama club. She enjoys snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, paddling, painting, and writing.
Justice Hackland was appointed to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in October of 2003. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1978 after completing his legal studies at the University of Ottawa Law School (LL.B,1975) and Oxford University (B.C.L.,1977) and articling at the Supreme Court of Canada. Prior to his appointment, he was a senior partner at Gowlings LL.P. (Ottawa) specializing in employment and administrative law and the representation of physicians and other professionals. Justice Hackland served as Regional Senior Judge of the Superior Court of Justice, East Region, (2008-14). During that period he served as Chair of the Committee of Administrative Judges of the Small Claims Court. Justice Hackland is currently a member of the Superior Court bench in Ottawa and a member of Deputy Judges’ Council (which administers Ontario’s Small Claims Court), and Chair of the Council’s Education Advisory Committee. He currently serves on the Canadian Judicial Council’s Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics and is a facilitator in the National Judicial Institute’s Evidence Workshop and Seminar for New Federally Appointed Judges.
Tina joined Greenspon, Brown & Associates (the predecessor to Greenspon Granger Hill) in 2016. She practices civil litigation exclusively, and her current practice focuses on personal injury matters, including motor vehicle accidents, Charter of Rights cases, negligent investigation and malicious prosecution cases, false arrest and false imprisonment cases, and excessive force cases. Tina started practicing law in 2002, after obtaining a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Psychology from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Laws from Queen’s University. She practiced civil litigation at a national law firm for almost ten years. Immediately prior to joining Greenspon, Brown & Associates, she ran her own business as a mediator and arbitrator. Tina is a certified trained mediator and negotiator. During the course of her career as a lawyer, Tina Hill has acted as counsel in many negotiations, mediations and arbitrations. She is currently on the roster of Ottawa mediators for Ontario, the Better Business Bureau roster of mediators, as well as the roster of mediators for Pro Bono Law Ontario. Tina is deeply involved in the community. She has sat on and chaired several Boards, including the Board of Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa and the Distress Centre of Ottawa and Region. She also sat on the Board of the Salvation Army Grace Manor, a long-term care facility in Ottawa, and has provided pro bono legal services to the CHEO BBQ, an annual volleyball and ultimate tournament organized by a grassroots organization to raise funds for CHEO.
Kristin Muszynski joined Templeman Menninga LLP as an associate lawyer in 2006 and became a Partner in January 2014. Working in the firm’s litigation department, Kristin practices in the areas of insurance defence and family law. Kristin received both her Bachelor of Arts and her Bachelor of Laws from Queen’s University. Kristin is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Ontario Bar Association, the Canadian Bar Association, the County of Frontenac Law Association and Canadian Defence Lawyers. She is actively involved with the Frontenac Law Association, and is the vice president of the Association as well as the chair of the Social Committee and the co-chair of the 1000 Islands Legal Conference Committee. Kristin is also a member of the Advocates’ Society where she is a member of the Young Advocates’ Standing Committee. In the spring of 2012, Kristin was appointed to the Ontario Bar Association Council for the East Region.
Marc is a founding member of Forget Smith, a boutique litigation firm. His practice focuses primarily on defending claims related to bodily injury, accident benefits, automobile, professional liability and claims related to construction. He represents local and national insurance companies as well as individual and corporate clients in other areas of litigation such as estate litigation. Marc has also developed a subrogation practice and he has been able to achieve cost-effective recoveries for his clients. Marc is fluently bilingual and he promotes access to justice for French-speaking people in the province. He is the Treasury and a member of the Board of Directors of L’Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario. He is also a member of the Attorney General’s Access to Justice in French Advisory Committee, a permanent committee created to provide advice and guidance to the Attorney General regarding current issues connected to access to justice in French.
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