William Kydd, Q.C. 1107 Lucknow Street Halifax NOVA SCOTIA B3H 2T7 Tel: (902) 497-9321 Fax: 1-888-231-7386 Email: bkydd@eastlink.ca

Mediation (Civil) Neutral Evaluation Arbitration (Commercial) Fact Finding Arbitration (Labour) Med-Arb Private Judge

Serving the following Area Codes: 902

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Biographical Notes:

Bill Kydd is a member of the Bar of Nova Scotia. He was engaged in the practice of law with the firm of Ritch Durnford, for 40 years. In recent years he has acted primarily as an arbitrator in the field of labour, employment, real estate, and commercial law. In June of 2009 he retired from Ritch Durnford, and now has a private practice, restricted to acting as an arbitrator and mediator.
He has served as chair of over 200 arbitration boards over the past five years, and has chaired arbitrations in all of the Atlantic provinces, involving a wide spectrum of disputes. He has mediated disputes in labour relations, commercial, and insurance matters and has completed advance courses in mediation, including the program on mediation at Harvard Law School. He has participated both as prosecuting counsel, and as counsel to the adjudicating tribunal in various professional disciplinary proceedings. He also has lengthy experience in many areas of civil litigation including employment law, tort, commercial, construction, municipal, insurance and admiralty law. He has served as Chair of the Civil Service Employee Relations Board, as an alternate Vice-Chair of the Nova Scotia Labour Relations Board and Labour Standards Tribunal, and is currently Chair of the N.S. Civil Service Classification Appeals Tribunal.

Education:

1965 - Bachelor of Science, Acadia University
1969 - LL.B., Dalhousie Law School
1969 - Admitted to Bar of Nova Scotia
1998 - Harvard Law School Mediation Program

Languages

English

Memberships & Affiliations :

Past-President, Dartmouth Bar Association
Past President, Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia
Past President, Alzheimer Society of Canada
Past President, Health Partners Nova Scotia

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Calendar Last Updated: 28 Jul 10	Click your preferred date to send our office a Date Request form. All such requests will go immediately to William Kydd's scheduling staff (bkydd@eastlink.ca)