Federal Court Practice 2025


Course Date: November 19, 2025

Full Course Materials
Total: 5h 52min
Total Ethics: 1h
Course Agenda ▼
Course Introduction and Land Acknowledgement (9:00 – 9:10)
 
Raymond Lee — Program Lawyer, CLEBC, Vancouver
Sarah L. Bird — Department of Justice Canada, Vancouver
Richard Kurland — Kurland, Tobe, Vancouver
 
Federal Court: Case Volumes and Trends (9:10 – 9:40)
 
Richard Kurland — Kurland, Tobe, Vancouver
Zeynab Ziaie Moayyed — Visa Law Group PC, Toronto
 
BREAK (9:40 – 9:45)
 
What We See Daily—Thoughts to Improve Case Efficiencies (9:45 – 10:30)
 
Sarah L. Bird — Department of Justice Canada, Vancouver
Richard Kurland — Kurland, Tobe, Vancouver
 
BREAK (10:30 – 10:35)
 
Self-Represented Litigants (10:30 – 11:15)
 
Mario D. Bellissimo — Bellissimo Law Group PC, Toronto
 
BREAK (11:15 – 11:20)
 
Best Practices and How We Can Make Things Better (11:20 – 12:20)
 
Moderator: Sarah L. Bird — Department of Justice Canada, Vancouver
Anita F. Boscariol — Watson Goepel LLP, Vancouver
Jon Khan — Department of Justice, Vancouver
 
LUNCH (12:20 – 1:00)
 
Court Efficiency: The View from the Bench (1:00 – 2:15)
 
Moderator: Richard Kurland — Kurland, Tobe, Vancouver
Chief Justice Paul Crampton (Retired) — Federal Court of Canada, Ottawa
 
BREAK (2:15 – 2:30)
 
Best Practices: Lessons for Everyone from Different Practice Areas (2:30 – 4:00)
 
Moderator: Sarah L. Bird — Department of Justice Canada, Vancouver
 
Immigration Law
 
Amandeep Hayer — Hayer Law, Langley 
 
Aboriginal Law
 
Peter Millerd — Mandell Pinder LLP, Vancouver
 
Intellectual Property Law
 
Dylan Braam — Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Vancouver
 
Maritime Law
 
H. Peter Swanson — Bernard LLP, Vancouver
 
Concluding Remarks (4:00 – 4:05)
 
Sarah L. Bird — Department of Justice Canada, Vancouver
Richard Kurland — Kurland, Tobe, Vancouver