CLE Online

Welcome and Land Acknowledgement (9:00 – 9:10)

Andrew Bury, QC — Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP,  Vancouver
Lindsay D. Goldberg — Fulton & Company Law Corporation, Vancouver

Procedural Overview (9:10 – 10:10)

• demands for payment
• where to commence a foreclosure proceeding—local venue
• who to name as respondents in a foreclosure proceeding
• what relief to seek in a foreclosure proceeding
• giving notice of hearings
• dealing with self-represented litigants

Andrew Bury, QC — Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP,  Vancouver

Questions & Discussion (10:10 – 10:20)

BREAK (10:20 – 10:35)

Order Nisi and Order Absolute (10:35 – 11:05)

• marshalling evidence
• what relief to seek at the hearing
• self-represented litigants
• your duty to the court
• options available to the court
• orders absolute
• manufactured homes

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

Order for Conduct of Sale and Order Approving Sale (11:05 – 11:35)

• jurisdiction
• who can apply for conduct or approval of sale, and when?
• listing the property
• approval of sales
• one-step process vs. two-step process, with competing bids
• COVID-19 procedures
• varying or appealing an Order approving a sale

Robert J. Ellis — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver

Questions & Discussion (11:35 – 11:45)

LUNCH (11:45 – 12:15)

Mortgage Priorities (12:15 – 12:45)

• mortgages
• tacking—s. 28 Property Law Act
• strata corporations
• builders liens  
• judgments
• federal government, including deemed trusts
• provincial government
• receivers 

Peter J. Reardon — Nathanson Schachter & Thompson LLP, Vancouver

Costs and Protective Disbursements (12:45 – 1:15)

Costs

• • background
  • the rule
  • the exceptions
  • assessment

Protective Disbursements

• • background/definition
  • recoverability

Randie Wilson — Randie Wilson Law Corporation, Vancouver

Questions & Discussion (1:15 – 1:25)

BREAK (1:25 – 1:40)

View from the Bench (1:40 – 2:10)

• foreclosure Notices of Application—Parts 2 and 3 (Factual and Legal Bases) what to include; what not to include
• foreclosure affidavit content
• application records
• dealing with lay litigants (before, during, and after chambers)
• communications with Court Registry staff
• good, bad and ugly foreclosure counsel work
• procedures and tips during COVID-19: applications by teleconference or MS Teams, sealed bids, draft orders, etc.

Master Sandra L. Dick — Supreme Court of BC, Nanaimo
Master Kimberley A. Robertson — Supreme Court of BC, New Westminster

Questions & Discussion (2:10 – 2:20)

BREAK (2:20 – 2:35)

Hot Topics Roundtable (2:35 – 3:15)

• s. 116(5) of the ITA—withholding tax, on sales of properties owned by non-residents (Mao v. Liu, etc.)
• Leatherman and Rosas v. Toca; how Order in Council 655/2020 affects these limitation periods
• a second mortgagee applying for conduct of sale in a first mortgagee's foreclosure proceeding and the timing of the second mortgagee's entitlement
• Toronto-Dominion Bank v. Canada, 2020 FCA 80 and Excise Tax Act, s. 222
• is a mortgagee entitled to an order absolute of foreclosure, as of right, once the redemption period expires?

Master Sandra L. Dick — Supreme Court of BC, Nanaimo
Master Kimberley A. Robertson — Supreme Court of BC, New Westminster
Andrew Bury, QC — Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP,  Vancouver
Robert J. Ellis — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Lindsay D. Goldberg — Fulton & Company Law Corporation, Vancouver
Peter J. Reardon — Nathanson Schachter & Thompson LLP, Vancouver
Randie Wilson — Randie Wilson Law Corporation, Vancouver