Creditors Remedies 2024


Course Date: April 30, 2024

Full Course Materials
Total: 5h 19min
Total Ethics: 1h
Course Introduction and Land Acknowledgement (9:00 – 9:10)
 
Teresa ShewardProgram Lawyer, CLEBC, Vancouver
Sherryl DuboMcMillan Dubo Law Group, Kamloops
Hunter ParsonsBorden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
 
View from the Bench (9:10 – 9:35)
 
Associate Judge Kimberley A. RobertsonSuperior Courts Judiciary, Vancouver
Catherine Ewasiuk Fulton & Company Law Corporation, Vancouver
 
Crown Remedies and Priorities (9:35 – 10:05)
  • Crown as unsecured creditor
  • Crown prerogative over claims of equal degree
  • Crown's deemed security in and after bankruptcy
  • requirements to pay and enhanced requirements to pay
  • Crown's deemed trust for unremitted source deductions and GST
Aminollah Sabzevari Department of Justice Canada, Adjunct Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, Vancouver
 
Bankruptcy Remedies (10:05 – 10:35)
 
  • pros and cons of bankrupting a debtor
  • requirements for a bankruptcy application
  • powers of trustee
  • preference payments and transfers at undervalue
  • creditors' power to pursue their own proceedings
  • recovery as condition of discharge
Jennifer L. Cockbill McMillan Dubo Law Group, Kamloops
 
BREAK (10:35 – 10:50)
 
Fraudulent Transactions and Equitable Remedies (10:50 – 11:20)
 
  • pre-claim considerations
  • litigation options, strategies, and risks
  • fraudulent preference/conveyances
  • investigatory orders and injunctions
  • knowing receipt
Hunter ParsonsBorden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
 
Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (11:20 – 12:00)
 
  • what is a "foreign judgment"?
  • how is it enforced in BC?
  • various defences to claims based on a foreign judgment
  • application of the Court Order Enforcement Act
  • developments in the enforcement of foreign non-monetary judgment
Hunter ParsonsBorden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
 
LUNCH (12:00 – 1:00)
 
Appointment of Receiver and GSA Enforcement (1:00 – 1:30)
  • instrument vs. court appointments
  • receivership appointments in foreclosure proceedings
  • sales and investment solicitation processes orders
  • claims process orders
  • orders approving professional fees
  • discharges orders 
Scott R. Andersen Lawson Lundell LLP, Kelowna
 
Statutory Enforcements: Liens (1:30 – 2:10)
 
  • review of case law developments pertaining to the Builders Liens Actincluding:
    • change to the method of statutory interpretation
    • increased liability for lien claimants for abuse of process
    • increased willingness by courts to reduce lien security
  • new Commercial Liens Act
David MckenzieJenkins Marzban Logan LLP, Vancouver
David Volk Jenkins Marzban Logan LLP, Vancouver
 
Acting for the Debtor (2:10 – 2:40)
 
  • Law Society of BC rules/requirements
  • strategies
  • dealing with judgments
Gerald A. (Gerry) Cuttler, KCSugden, McFee & Roos LLP, Vancouver
 
BREAK (2:40 – 2:55)
 
Process for Seizure for Sale (2:55 – 3:25)
 
  • how to obtain a writ
  • what assets can be seized and sold
  • what assets are exempt from seizure
  • working with court bailiffs
  • searches to locate assets
  • sharing among creditors under the Creditors Assistance Act
Sherryl DuboMcMillan Dubo Law Group, Kamloops
 
Hot Topics Roundtable: The Money Judgment Enforcement Act (3:25 – 4:00)
 
  • coming into force in 2025
Associate Judge Kimberley A. RobertsonSuperior Courts Judiciary, Vancouver
Scott R. Andersen
Lawson Lundell LLP, Kelowna
Sherryl DuboMcMillan Dubo Law Group, Kamloops
Hunter ParsonsBorden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Peter PowersPrincipal, Accurate Bailiff Group, Burnaby
Aminollah Sabzevari
Department of Justice Canada, Adjunct Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, Vancouver