Investigator Chronicles Episode 5 is live! – Watch Now
In Episode 5, Lisa Southern, a founding partner of Southern Law in Vancouver and the first Integrity Commissioner for the City of Vancouver, joins Investigator Chronicles host Christine Thomlinson to talk about her path from labour and employment lawyer to adjudicator to investigator, and what her career across hearing rooms and institutional files has taught her about running a fair, effective process.
When I first started doing workplace investigations, I don’t think it ever crossed my mind that someone might someday get to see the notes I took in interviews, or anything else in my investigation file. Over time, this began to be discussed as a risk, and it certainly made me more thoughtful about what I recorded in connection with my investigation work.
In Episode 4, Dayna Boyko — child forensic interviewing specialist, president of Helix Investigative Consulting Inc., and retired Toronto Police Service (TPS) investigator — joins our Investigator Chronicles host, Christine Thomlinson, to talk about how to get accurate, reliable accounts from child complainants and witnesses.
In the last edition of From Case to Practice, we discussed a recent decision by Arbitrator Hart which looked in-depth at the proper approach to making policy decisions in workplace investigations (Part 1).
In Episode 3, workplace investigator Rupa Karyampudi joins our Investigator Chronicles host, Christine Thomlinson, to talk about designing a more accessible investigation process for participants with disabilities and neurodivergence.
We recently reviewed an arbitration decision by Mark Hart. There’s enough to say about this decision that we have divided this into two editions of From Case to Practice. This Part 1 focuses on making policy decisions.
Alyssa Gassi began working as a Municipal Prosecutor for The Corporation of the County of Lambton (the “County”) on October 28, 2024. Her employment was terminated on a with-cause basis on April 4, 2025.
In our investigation training sessions, it’s interesting how often participants say that when they can’t decide at the end of an investigation, they just say the allegation is “unsubstantiated.”
