CLE Online

Welcome and Introduction

Certificates of Pending Litigation

• when can a CPL be used?
• registering the CPL
• cancelling the CPL
• security and damages
• caveats

Caily DiPuma — Hunter Litigation Chambers, Vancouver

Injunctive Relief in Real Estate Litigation

• Rule 10-1
• injunctions in land use disputes
• Mareva injunctions

William Knutson, QC — SHK Law Corporation, Vancouver

Bringing and Defending Specific Performance Actions

• the law of specific performance
• the concept of “uniqueness” and the adequacy of damages
• residential vs. commercial properties
• bringing specific performance actions
• defending specific performance actions

T. Mark Pontin — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver

Networking Break

Effectively Using The Partition of Property Act

• when can the Act be used?
• standing under the Act
• when will the court order a sale?
• when will the court decline to order a sale?
• an accounting before the registrar

Layne Hellrung — Sourisseau & Co Litigation Counsel, Vancouver

“Shadow Flipping”: Assigning Real Estate Contracts

• assignment clauses in real estate contracts
• acting for the buyer
• acting for the seller
• claims against real estate licensees

Alexandra Cocks — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver

Questions & Discussion

Networking Lunch

Views from the Bench: Remedies and the Court’s Discretion

• application materials
• the Court’s expectations of counsel
• what matters to judges in exercising their discretion

The Honourable Madam Justice Elaine J. Adair — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver 
The Honourable Mr. Justice Robert J. Sewell — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Georges E. Sourisseau — Sourisseau & Co Litigation Counsel, Vancouver

The Poorly Drafted Residential Purchase Contract of Purchase and Sale

• common drafting errors
• rules of standard form contractual interpretation
• rectification
• caveat emptor

Scott Cordell — Killam Cordell Murray, Vancouver

Networking Break 

Practice Issues in Real Estate Arbitration

• arbitration clauses
• commencing an arbitration
• selecting an arbitrator
• conducting an arbitration

H. Scott MacDonald — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Richard J. Olson — McKechnie & Company, Vancouver

Valuation of Real Estate Interests

• instructing an appraiser
• reviewing an appraisal
• common appraisal issues
• the importance of rebuttal reports
• cross-examining an appraiser

H. Scott MacDonald — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Richard J. Olson — McKechnie & Company, Vancouver

Questions & Discussion