Affidavit Secrets 2024

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Session 1

Format

Courses - Rebroadcast

Start Date & Time

2024-07-16

End Date & Time

2024-07-16

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Uncommon knowledge about effectively managing the most common form of evidence!

—Rebroadcasts—
On the rebroadcast date, you will have until midnight of that rebroadcast date to access the course. Please note that technical support will be available during regular CLEBC business hours.

Summer Series 2024
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

(Original course date: February 5, 2024)

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Who should attend: Junior and intermediate litigators, paralegals, and legal support staff

Learning level: Fundamental/Intermediate

Affidavits are the most important and common form of evidence that a litigator will ever encounter or use. In this intensive half-day program, expert litigators will take registrants through how not to draft an affidavit; how to dissect an affidavit from the other side; how to tell your client's story as governed by law, practice, ethics, and the rules of evidence; and how to avoid common mistakes.

While one often learns best by making mistakes, here you can avoid embarrassment and potentially an award of costs. Let experienced counsel and an experienced Justice of the Supreme Court of BC take you through prime examples of improper affidavits, teaching you, in the process, exactly what not to do.

Do not miss this unique opportunity to learn how to master this essential skill set under the guidance of experienced counsel and Members of the Supreme Court of BC.

Learning Objectives

learn the essentials of good affidavit drafting
learn to avoid common and not-so-common pitfalls found in affidavit drafting
learn about best practices for handling affidavit evidence
test your knowledge of affidavit practice with problems taken from the real world
learn about ethics and professionalism and their relation to affidavit evidence

Law Society of BC CPD Hours: 3 hours (this course will contain a minimum of .5 hours pertaining to professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations, and/or practice management).

Course Chairs
Andrew P. Morrison — Shields Harney, Vancouver
John Douglas Shields — Shields Harney, Vancouver

Summer Series 2024	EARLY BIRD Register by June 17/24	Regular Price After June 17/24
Rebroadcast	$222	$254
Rebroadcast Articled Student	$127	$127

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CLEBC Program Lawyer*
Raymond Lee
rlee@cle.bc.ca
*non-practising

Course Chairs
Andrew P. Morrison — Shields Harney, Vancouver
John Douglas Shields — Shields Harney, Vancouver

About the Course Chairs
Andrew Morrison is an experienced commercial litigator who has provided candid and effective advice to clients of all sizes for more than 20 years.

Andrew has a varied practice. He appears in many courts and tribunals including the BC Court of Appeal, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. He is well-known for litigating disputes concerning real estate and commercial contracts, and has substantial experience handling matters involving shareholder rights, partnerships, commercial leases, employment relationships, the collection of judgment debts, conflicts of interest, fee disputes between lawyers and clients, and civil procedure.

Andrew is also an experienced mediator. He facilitates the resolution of disputes that involve modest to millions of dollars. He has also acted as arbitrator.

Andrew is a regular speaker at CLEBC and CBA events and has been a guest speaker to law students at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC.

John Douglas Shields was called to the BC bar in February 1985, after obtaining degrees in civil and common law from McGill.

He is a Principal in Shields Harney, a commercial litigation boutique with offices both in Vancouver and Victoria. John has a varied commercial litigation practice that includes arbitrations, mediations, and civil contingency fee work, with extensive litigation experience throughout BC, the Federal Court of Canada, courts in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the Supreme Court of Canada.

John is an enthusiastic supporter of CLEBC, and is a frequent contributor both as chair and presenter at CLE courses, including topics on mastering evidence, affidavit practice, Chambers practice, and creditors' remedies. He has contributed articles to the Advocate and his CLE paper on Affidavits has been described by a Justice of the SCBC as "worth its weight in gold."

He enjoys mountain biking, pickle ball, and his house in Burgundy.

Faculty
Associate Judge Shelagh Scarth — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Emily Kirkpatrick — McEwan Cooper Kirkpatrick LLP, Vancouver

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Course Introduction and Land Acknowledgement (9:00 – 9:05)

Raymond Lee — Program Lawyer, CLEBC, Vancouver

Andrew P. Morrison — Shields Harney, Vancouver
John Douglas Shields — Shields Harney, Vancouver

The Key Elements of Effective Affidavits (9:05 – 9:50)

Emily Kirkpatrick — McEwan Cooper Kirkpatrick LLP, Vancouver

Bad Affidavits (9:50 – 10:25)

John Douglas Shields — Shields Harney, Vancouver

BREAK (10:25 – 10:40)

Quiz #1 (10:40 – 10:55)