CLE Online

Course Introduction and Land Acknowledgement (9:00 – 9:10)

Mary Kingston — Program Production Manager, CLEBC, Vancouver
David C. Halkett — McQuarrie, Surrey

Setting up for Success: File and Document Management (9:10 – 9:55)

• where to start—gathering initial information
• starting the Form 8 Financial Statement—process and organization
• starting lists of documents—process and organization
• starting your client's claim—process and organization
• organizing your BF's

Nicole Aren — Paralegal, Farris LLP, Vancouver
Victoria Halters — Director of Legal Support/Paralegal, YLaw, Vancouver

Child Support (9:55 – 11:10)

Heather Mathison — Heinrichs Richards LLP, Vancouver

BREAK (11:10 – 11:25)

Coping with and Calming Highly Charged People (11:25 – 12:10)

• how to calm yourself
• interpersonal tools
• creating a team protocol

Dr. Simon Elterman — Private Practice, Vancouver

LUNCH (12:10 – 1:10)

Effective Chambers Applications (1:10 – 1:55)

• preparing the application materials
• specific chambers applications
• other considerations when preparing applications

Associate Judge Rory W. Krentz — Supreme Court of BC, Abbotsford

Understanding Desk Order Applications (1:55 – 2:40)

• desk order applications for without notice orders, consents orders, and uncontested divorce orders
• review of the Rules, and tricks of the trade for drafting orders and affidavits
• comprehensive review of supporting materials for uncontested divorce desk order applications

Wendy Matthews — Paralegal, FLEC - Family Law Educational Courses, Delta

BREAK (2:40 – 2:45)

Provincial or Supreme Court: How to Choose (2:45 – 3:20)

David C. Halkett — McQuarrie, Surrey

The End of "Seeing is Believing"? AI and the Future of Evidence (3:20 – 4:00)

• generative AI is powerful but inherently unreliable, particularly for legal work: large language models can fabricate information, exhibit automation bias, and produce convincing but false outputs, making human verification and informed tool selection essential
• synthetic and altered evidence (deepfake images, audio, and video) poses a serious and growing risk to the integrity of legal proceedings, requiring legal professionals to exercise heightened due diligence, skepticism, and, in some cases, forensic expertise when assessing authenticity
• courts are signaling zero tolerance for the misuse of AI in litigation, reinforcing that counsel have a professional duty not to mislead the court and must take reasonable steps to understand the provenance and reliability of AI influenced evidence and work product
  

Ann Halkett — Director, SOLVED eDiscovery, a division of Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP, Vancouver

Closing Comments (4:00 – 4:05)

David C. Halkett — McQuarrie, Surrey