CLE Online

Welcome and Introduction

Hot Tax Issues in Real Estate

• foreign buyers tax 
• empty homes tax
• GST and PST hot issues

Terry G. Barnett — Thorsteinssons LLP, Vancouver

LTSA Webfiing 

• introduction to Web Filing, the next version of the electronic filing system under development

Carlos R. MacDonald — Registrar of Land Titles, Land Title & Survey Authority of BC, Victoria

Foreclosures: What's New and What to Watch For

• the "all monies" mortgage
• representing the purchaser in a judicial sale — tips and common pitfalls
• OSFI's B-20 Bombshell
• Income Tax Act, s. 116, and the non-resident vendor: Life after Mao v. Liu

Lindsay D. Goldberg — Fulton & Company Law Corporation, Vancouver

Questions and Discussion

Break

Mortgages: Case Law Update and Practice Points

Timothy J. Lack — Lunny Atmore LLP, Vancouver

Getting Paid: Realizing on Real Property

• how unsecured creditors get their judgments
• realization after registration
• dealing with joint tenancies
• practice points and ethical considerations

David Moonje — Stewart, Aulinger & Company, Vancouver

Questions and Discussion

Lunch with Featured Speaker:
Affordable Housing: "Looking Back, Looking Forward"

Michael Geller — The Geller Group, Vancouver

First Nations Lands: Jurisdictional and Tenure Issues

Brenda Gaertner — Mandell Pinder LLP, Vancouver

"Under the Covers": What Lawyers Insurance Covers, and What it Doesn't Cover

Coran R. R. Cooper-Stephenson — Lawyers’ Insurance Fund, Law Society of BC, Vancouver
Maryanne Prohl — Lawyers’ Insurance Fund, Law Society of BC, Vancouver

Strata Update

• Civil Resolution Tribunal
• wind-ups
• update on the duty to repair

Jennifer L. Neville — Hammerberg Lawyers LLP, Vancouver

Questions and Discussion

Break

Deal or Collapsing Deal! 

• test your knowledge of issues that arise on a collapsing deal
• do you know as much as you think you know?
• find out by playing Deal or Collapsing Deal!

Andrew P. Morrison — Shields Harney, Vancouver
Lisa Niro — Bell Alliance Lawyers & Notaries Public, Vancouver

Non-Financial Charges on Title and Other Due Diligence

Ron Usher — The Society of Notaries Public of BC, Vancouver

Hot Topics Roundtable

Timothy J. Lack — Lunny Atmore LLP, Vancouver
Jennifer L. Neville — Hammerberg Lawyers LLP, Vancouver
Ron Usher — The Society of Notaries Public of BC, Vancouver
Andrew P. Morrison — Shields Harney, Vancouver
Lisa Niro — Bell Alliance Lawyers & Notaries Public, Vancouver

Closing Questions and Comments