Creditors Remedies 2024


Course Date: April 30, 2024

Full Course Materials
Total: 5h 19min
Total Ethics: 1h
Course Agenda ▼
Course Introduction and Land Acknowledgement (9:00 – 9:10)
 
Teresa Sheward — Program Lawyer, CLEBC, Vancouver
Sherryl Dubo — McMillan Dubo Law Group, Kamloops
Hunter Parsons — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
 
View from the Bench (9:10 – 9:35)
 
Associate Judge Kimberley A. Robertson — Superior 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 Parsons — Borden 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 Parsons — Borden 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 Act, including:
    • 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 Mckenzie — Jenkins 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, KC — Sugden, 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 Dubo — McMillan 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. Robertson — Superior Courts Judiciary, Vancouver
Scott R. Andersen — Lawson Lundell LLP, Kelowna
Sherryl Dubo — McMillan Dubo Law Group, Kamloops
Hunter Parsons — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Peter Powers — Principal, Accurate Bailiff Group, Burnaby
Aminollah Sabzevari — Department of Justice Canada, Adjunct Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, Vancouver