Bob Stenhouse is the founder and CEO of Veritas Solutions, one of Canada’s leading firms in workplace and administrative investigations and training. With more than forty years of investigative experience, Bob has conducted and overseen thousands of files across criminal, human rights, corporate, and workplace domains. 
Lauren Hanon is a lawyer with extensive experience across government, family law, and general litigation. As the Director of Quality Assurance at Veritas Solutions, she oversees hundreds of investigation reports each year and ensures the firm’s standards of accuracy, clarity, and procedural fairness are consistently met. 
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Advanced Workplace Investigation Training for Lawyers
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April 29 – April 30
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This program offers online registration only. Note: This program is not being recorded and will not be made available as an on-demand program.
Do you conduct workplace investigations or other administrative investigation functions? Are you looking to enhance your practice and develop practical skills? Join us for a unique opportunity in this hands-on, two-day workshop designed especially for lawyers. This workshop was developed in collaboration with Veritas Solutions, one of Canada’s premier administrative investigation and training firms. Veritas Solutions has trained thousands of HR professionals and other administrative investigators, including lawyers, on how to conduct highly effective and legally defensible investigations.
Utilizing and expanding on established investigation principles, this course will address:
- Principles of legally defensible investigations including investigator selection and biases, principles of natural justice and procedural fairness, and legal conflicts of interest.
- Investigation planning and case management including techniques on how to clearly establish the scope and incidents and begin to plan specific areas of investigation and lines of questioning.
- Trauma-informed investigation interviewing including an understanding of trauma and its impact on issues of credibility, interview approaches, and the elicitation of maximum information.
- Understanding person-on-person allegations of misconduct including an examination of the evolution of law and case law, and defining the elements related to harassment, bullying, sexual harassment, and human rights discrimination.
- Investigating high conflict, querulous, vexatious, and dark triad personalities including how to identify dark triad personalities/high conflict persons and create strategies and techniques to investigate cases involving manipulation, deceit, and counter-allegations effectively and successfully.
- Conducting credibility assessments including case law and the systematic application of ten credibility factors.
- Investigation analysis and findings including the application of an analytical two-pronged test, balancing the probabilities, and coming to a definitive finding that withstands the highest level of legal scrutiny.
Working through a case study, the course will culminate in participants applying principles in mock investigation interviews, where they will assess credibility and come to legally defensible findings on the allegations.
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This program is proudly presented in collaboration with Veritas Solutions.
