Course Chairs
Robert Dawkins — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Robert Dawkins is a partner at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver. He has a commercial litigation practice and acts in a broad range of matters, including banking litigation, fraud recovery litigation, creditors' remedies, commercial lease disputes, shareholder disputes, contract and sale-of-goods disputes, and intellectual property/anti-piracy litigation. Rob has extensive experience obtaining and enforcing pre-trial injunction remedies, including Anton Piller orders (civil search orders) and Mareva injunctions (asset-freezing orders), and was a member of the Law Society of BC's Mareva and Anton Piller Model Order Committee. For a number of years, Rob has been a course chair of CLEBC's Creditors Remedies from beginner to advanced levels; in 2015 he also co-edited the chapter on Injunctions and Preservation Orders in the CLEBC practice manual BC Creditors' Remedies—An Annotated Guide. Rob has significant experience managing litigation posing unique challenges for recovery, including debt protester actions, in addition to fraud and intellectual property piracy cases.
D. Ross McGowan is a partner of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP and is National Chair of the firm's Fraud Law Practice Group. Ross provides advice to financial institutions and others on operations, payment systems, policy advice, and regulatory compliance, including work specifically focused on combating loss arising from fraud. Ross has acted on matters ranging from litigation defence work of individual customer complaints to mass tort Ponzi scheme claims. He provides operations and compliance advice on design of banking systems, account agreements, policy manuals, and regulatory compliance matters affecting financial institutions' operations. Ross also works with fidelity, E & O, and D & O insurers to provide coverage and subrogation advice relating to fraud losses, bondability of employees, policy design, and defence of claims. Ross has been a guest speaker at many national and regional industry group conferences and has authored numerous articles on banking, bills of exchange, and fraud related topics. He received an international film award for developing an employee fraud awareness video titled "Consequences" and was recognized in Who'sWhoLegal as one of Canada's leading business crime defence lawyers. Ross was admitted to the BC bar in 1988.
Faculty
The Honourable Edward C. Chiasson, QC — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Alex Cocks — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Gerald A. (Gerry) Cuttler, QC — Cuttler & Company, Vancouver
Robert Dawkins — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
David McKenzie — Jenkins Marzban Logan LLP, Vancouver
Kimberley A. Robertson— Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Kent D. Wiebe — Wiebe Wittmann El-Khatib LLP, Vancouver
Course Materials Contributor
Kristina Mansveld — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
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