Family Law Basics 2025
Course Date: April 10, 2025
Total: 5h 17min
Total Ethics: 1h
Course Date: April 10, 2025
- suggestions for an effective chambers application
- pointers for trial preparation
- getting the most out of a JCC
- assessing clients' emotional states
- screening clients
- retainers and retainer letters
- managing expectations
- responsibilities for screening for family violence
- red flags
- collaborative law
- commencing proceedings
- negotiation
- mediation
- arbitration
Daylyn Miller — Hamilton Fabbro, Vancouver
- disclosure triggers and ongoing disclosure obligations
- client understanding and awareness
- Family Law Rules
- lists of documents
- examinations for discovery
- interrogatories
- what is a JCC
- Family Law Rules
- the scope of JCCs
- disclosure obligations
- available orders that JCC judges can make
- exemptions to JCCs
- strategy for effective use of JCCs
- preparing yourself and your client
- preparing a JCC brief
- setting subsequent JCCs
Shashika R. Stanislaus — Basran Robin Allen & Desilets, Vancouver
- types of expert reports: section 202 and 211 reports, joint, party's own, courts' own, rebuttal
- emerging use of shadow experts
- how to prepare for mediation, including mediation briefs
- how to start litigation, including:
- framing your claim
- organizing documents
- how to prepare for trial, including:
- examinations for discovery
- witness preparation and examination
- experts
- trial management conferences and briefs
- opening and closing arguments
- what is parenting coordination
- appointments and intake
- what files are or are not appropriate for this process
- role of counsel
- jurisdiction of a PC/enforcement
- availability
Julia M. Hibbard — Hayward Sheppard, Vancouver
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Paper: Managing your Clients: Initial Consultations and Communication
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Slides: Expert Reports
Handout: Precedent #1 – Service of s.211 Report
Handout: Precedent #2 – Engagement for HTC Report
Handout: Precedent #3 – Engagement for Real Estate Appraisal
Handout: Precedent #4 – Engagement for Share Value
Handout: Precedent #5 - Financial Issues Service Letter
Handout: Precedent #6 – Objection to expert report
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