Anthony F. Brown Barrister & Solicitor
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About Anthony F. Brown Barrister & Solicitor
Anthony F. Brown Barrister & Solicitor is a Toronto practice with education law at its centre. Alongside it, Anthony Brown handles human rights, employment law and collective bargaining, investigates workplace harassment, and advises on school board governance and ethics. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1979, Brown has been counsel at the Ontario Ministry of Education and at two Ontario school boards.
Brown spent more than twenty years as in-house counsel for school boards on top of eight years as Ministry counsel, including thirteen years as General Counsel to the Toronto District School Board, a role held until 2015, before setting up this practice. Brown has also sat on the Ontario Labour Relations Board as a Vice-Chair.
Brown is a published author on education law and holds two master's degrees, one in law and one in education. The practice works out of Suite 900 at 45 Sheppard Avenue East in Toronto.
Practice areas
Education law
Education law covers many topics, among them reading the Education Act and related statutes, special education, student discipline (including restorative justice, suspensions and expulsions) and the privacy of student records.
Employment, labour and bargaining
On labour and employment questions, from employment standards to collective bargaining, school boards get advice and representation. From 1999 to 2002 Anthony Brown was a full-time Vice-Chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, ruling on matters under the Labour Relations Act, the Employment Standards Act and other legislation.
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Workplace harassment investigations
Organizations frequently bring Anthony Brown in to look into harassment allegations at work. Each inquiry draws on employment and human rights experience and on listening skills built as a labour adjudicator, and the result is a written fact-finding report.
Human rights
Anthony Brown advises and represents organizations on human rights law and procedure, and helps them draft new internal human rights policies or revise the ones they have.
Board governance and ethics
Governance advice covers codes of conduct, ethics and integrity, freedom of information and open board meetings, and what boards, their members and their employees are empowered and obliged to do.
Milestones & recognition
- Author of Legal Handbook for Educators, 6th Edition, and a co-author of Education Law in its 4th and 5th editions.
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The neighbourhood
45 Sheppard Avenue East is the nine-storey half of a pair of office buildings (the other, at 47 Sheppard, has seven storeys) on a 2.95-acre property in the North Yonge corridor. The site sits on the south side of Sheppard just east of Yonge Street, a short walk from the Sheppard-Yonge subway station. Next door, 47 Sheppard Avenue East is a provincial court location, and the property has been home to the Small Claims Court of the Superior Court of Justice.
Frequently asked questions
- Can Anthony F. Brown mediate a personality conflict that's causing stress among our staff?
- Anthony F. Brown offers mediation and dispute resolution to organizations whose workplaces are strained by personality conflicts, with the aim of finding a way to resolve them.
- Does Anthony Brown coach managers as well as investigate harassment complaints?
- Anthony F. Brown is available to work as a workplace coach for members of management.
- Has Anthony Brown been a spokesperson in public education collective bargaining?
- Anthony F. Brown has done a great deal of collective bargaining in the public education sector, including acting as the spokesperson at the table.
- Will Anthony F. Brown advise a municipality or non-profit on meeting procedures and by-laws, or only school boards?
- Anthony F. Brown advises and represents school boards and similar organizations, such as municipalities and non-profit corporations, on governance matters that include meeting procedures and by-laws.
Where to find them
45 Sheppard Avenue East, Suite 900, Toronto, ON M2N 5W9 · 416-221-0709
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