Collections Practice Basics 2021


Course Date: February 12, 2021

Full Course Materials
Total: 5h 13min
Course Agenda ▼

Welcome and Land Acknowledgement (9:00 – 9:05)

Raymond Lee — CLEBC, Vancouver
Hunter Parsons — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Matthew G. Swanson — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver

Creditors' Remedies: Strategic Overview (9:05 – 9:35)

  • developing strategies for identification of claims, remedies, parties, and prospective recoveries
  • investigations and searches
  • jurisdiction and forum
  • pre-claim statutory and contractual considerations
  • law practice management

Hunter Parsons — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver

BREAK (9:35 – 9:45)

Pre-judgment Do's and Don'ts (9:45 – 10:25)

  • business practices and Consumer Protection Act issues: rules for collectors
  • pre-litigation demands and related notices
  • commencing an action
  • pre-judgment garnishment
  • forbearance agreements and early settlement
  • pleading for default

Thomas D. Boyd — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver

BREAK (10:25 – 10:35)

Post-judgment: Enforcement and Recovery (10:35 – 11:15)

  • post-judgment garnishment including RRSPs and term deposits
  • seizure of shares
  • enforcement against real property
  • enforcement of foreign judgments and extra-provincial Canadian judgments
  • enforcement in foreign jurisdictions and other provinces

Scott R. Andersen — Lawson Lundell LLP, Kelowna

BREAK (11:15 – 11:25)

Acting for the Debtor (11:25 – 12:00)

  • magical defences
  • tricks of the trade
  • dealing with judgments
  • setting aside garnishment

John Douglas Shields — Shields Harney, Vancouver

LUNCH (12:00 – 12:30)

Fraudulent Transactions (12:30 – 1:00)

  • fraudulent conveyances and preferences
  • injunctions

Sarah J. Nelligan — Dentons Canada LLP, Vancouver

BREAK (1:00 – 1:10)

View from the Bench: How to Run a Summary Trial (1:10 – 1:45)

  • things that should and should not go into affidavits
  • practice pitfalls and common mistakes in summary proceedings
  • effective way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

The Honourable Mr. Justice Geoffrey B. Gomery — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Matthew G. Swanson — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver

BREAK (1:45 – 1:55)

Dealing with Self-represented Litigants (1:55 – 2:40)

  • ethical obligations
  • strategies for managing costs and the process
  • helping the court—its adversarial by your adversary may not know the rules of the game

Andrew P. Morrison — Shields Harney, Vancouver

BREAK (2:40 – 2:50)

Debt Protestors: The Vexatious Defendants (2:50 – 3:20)

  • what is a debt protestor?
  • what can you expect from them?
  • managing client expectations
  • strategies for ending the madness

D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver

Questions and Discussion (3:20 – 3:30)

Hunter Parsons — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Matthew G. Swanson — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver