CLE Online

7:45 am – 8:45 am Optional Ethics Session: "Smart Phone Security and Mobile Device Forensics"

Host: Grace G. Choi — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Guest: Nigel Holmes, EnCE, ACE — Director, Forensic and Security Operations, TCS Forensics Ltd., Vancouver

Welcome and Introduction

Duff Waddell — Kaplan & Waddell, Vancouver

Power of Attorney

Kim A. Karras — Brawn Karras & Sanderson, Surrey

Escrow Closing

Kim A. Karras — Brawn Karras & Sanderson, Surrey

Tax Issues

• HST
• PTT
• s. 116 Income Tax Issues

Randall E. Cobbett — Cobbett & Cotton Law Corporation, Burnaby
Bob C. Starkell — Bob C. Starkell Law Corporation, Vancouver

Networking Break

Corporations

• buying, selling, and mortgaging, including searches
• signing authorities
• directors’ resolutions and officers’ certificates
• extraprovincial companies and holding companies with trust arrangements
• other incorporated entities

Dick H.K. Chan — Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers, Coquitlam
Colleen Read — Senior Conveyancer, Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers, Coquitlam

Private Mortgages

• conflicts
• instructions
• specific clauses
• document preparation
• discharging private mortgages

Duff Waddell — Kaplan & Waddell, Vancouver

Networking Lunch

Leaseholds

• procedures and requirements for:
  • UBC
  • City of Vancouver
  • SFU
  • Native lands

Randall E. Cobbett — Cobbett & Cotton Law Corporation, Burnaby
Bob C. Starkell — Bob C. Starkell Law Corporation, Vancouver

New Construction

• basic contract
• assignment of contract
• presales
• draw mortgages
• builders lien holdbacks
• collapsing transactions

Duff Waddell — Kaplan & Waddell, Vancouver

Networking Break

Vendor Issues

• who is the registered owner
• clearing title
• undertaking problems
• holdback issues
• non-resident vendors

Dick H.K. Chan — Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers, Coquitlam

Miscellaneous

Randall E. Cobbett — Cobbett & Cotton Law Corporation, Burnaby
Bob C. Starkell — Bob C. Starkell Law Corporation, Vancouver