Presenter/s: Michael LeBeau LLB and Adrienne Denham LLB
Date: 24 November 2020
Time: noon - 2:15 pm Pacific
Location: webinar
Type: webinar and recording
Price: $50.00
CPD approval:
- ICCRC 2 hours - 2 CPD hours approved, expired 4 May 2022
- LSBC 2 hours - Approved, expired - attendance to this course will provide you with .25 hours/15 minutes of ethics and professional responsibility component for your BC Law Society reporting.
- For Alberta lawyers, consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your mandatory annual Continuing Professional Development Plan as required by the Law Society of Alberta.
Outline:
- Introduction – Overview of Administrative Law
- Finding Cases – Defining the issue, where to start and where to go
- What is the issue
- Keyword
- Which part of the Act or Regs applies
- Finding cases on point
- Using Canlii
- Other sources
- Practice Examples
- How to use your case
- What is precedent setting – definition and examples
- Proper way to cite a case
- Ethics
- Q & A
Speakers:
Adrienne Denham LLB
Adrienne graduated from University of Ottawa law school in 2004, cum laude. Adrienne started her career as a negotiator at the Department of Foreign Affairs in the fields of "Global Human Security" and "International Crime and Counter-Terrorism". She was awarded the DeputyMinister's Award of Excellence. In 2007, Adrienne joined the team who managed the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver and Whistler (VANOC). After the Games, Adrienne was a negotiator for some of BC’s largest non-profit associations before her return to active practice in 2017. Adrienne is a member of the Law Society of BC, and the Canadian Bar Association and is on the Executive of the Canadian Bar Association’s BC Immigration Section. Adrienne lives in East Vancouver with her mountain-biking husband, and equally daring son who has decided he will be a professional surfer when he grows up.
Michael LeBeau LLB
Michael has more than a decade of experience in British Columbia real estate and Canadian immigration law. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2007, after having received the academic Prize for Achievement in Immigration Law. He articled at one of Vancouver's premier immigration law firms and, in December 2007 he joined the team at UBC's Centre for Intercultural Communication and was a teaching assistant and occasional instructor for the Certificate in Immigration: Laws, Policies and Procedures. Michael founded LeBeau Law in May 2008 and has built a strong and steadfast reputation in both immigration law and real estate. Michael is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and the Canadian Bar Association. Michael lives in Coquitlam with his wife, a highly-regarded dance instructor and his young son who has just started Kindergarten.
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