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20230425 - CICC Code of Professional Conduct - Conflicts of Interest: Recognizing and Managing Them Properly - expires for CICC 24 April 2024

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Presenter/s: Lynn Gaudet B.A., LLB., RCIC

Date: 25 April 2023 

Time: 11 am to 2:15 pm Pacific

Location: webinar

Type: webinar and recording

Price: $75.00

CPD approval:

  • CICC 3 hours - 3 CPD hours approved, recording will be valid until 24 April 2024. Includes 3 hours of Professionalism/Code of Professional Conduct.
  • LSBC 3 hours - 3 CPD hours approved, video recording expires 31 December 2023 - attendance to this course will provide you with 45 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. 

This series focuses on the new RCIC Code of Professional Conduct and will appeal to both experienced RCICs as well as those starting out. A very practical “how-to” approach will be taken to help RCICs fulfil their professional duties to their clients and to the College. Some seminars span several Code sections to cover a wide-ranging topic like client service; others take a deep dive into one key section such as service agreements. All have a practical focus on common ethical pitfalls with examples, solutions and opportunities for participants to engage in resolving these issues with a view to operating your practice properly, and preventing client complaints.

Outline: 

Conflicts of interest can arise in several ways, with your private interests or between the interests of different clients. The new Code contains clear guidance on how to manage these, but the sections can be difficult to navigate. All types of conflicts will be covered, but this seminar may be of particular interest to RCICs who also work as education agents or recruit foreign workers since the Code has specific rules for managing the presumed conflicts that arise in these settings.

  • Rationale for conflict avoidance – section 5
  • Common ways potential conflicts arise for RCICs
  • Understanding personal conflicts of interest - section 1(2)(a)
  • Understanding conflicts between clients - s 1(2)(b)
  • Managing conflicts of interest by consent - Section 15(1)
  • Where consent is not effective as per section 15(2)
  • Prohibitions in Section 16 – examples and best practices
  • RCICs recruiting foreign workers – Section 17
  • RCICs recruiting foreign students -Section 18
  • Related sections for service agreements and termination: s 24(3)(o) and s 35
  • Professionalism
  • Q & A

College of Citizenship and Immigration - Essential Competency mapping  

RCIC

Professionalism

6.1 Demonstrates and maintains competence in practice

  6.1.3 Anticipates and manages the potential outcomes of own actions or the actions of others.

6.3 Ethically manages conflicts of interest to ensure the integrity of the professional relationship. 

  6.3.1 Recognizes a perceived, potential, or real conflict of interest.

  6.3.2 Adequately discloses the conflict of interest to all relevant parties.

  6.3.3 Determines the appropriateness to proceed with the provision of services in collaboration with the client and other relevant parties.

  6.3.4 Withdraws as the client's representative when a perceived or real conflict of interest exists, and the conflict cannot be adequately mitigated.

RSISA

Professionalism

5.3 Ethically manages conflicts of interest to ensure the integrity of the professional relationship.

  5.3.1 Recognizes a perceived, potential, or real conflict of interest.

  5.3.2 Adequately discloses the conflict of interest to all relevant parties.

  5.3.3 Determines the appropriateness to proceed with the provision of services in collaboration with the student and other relevant parties.

  5.3.4 Withdraws from advising the student or situation when a perceived or real conflict of interest exists and the conflict cannot be adequately mitigated.

Speaker/s:

Lynn Gaudet B.A., LLB. RCIC

Lynn is a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC) who operated her own business as a sole practitioner in Calgary, AB for 17 years from 2004-2021, is now semi-retired in Nanaimo, BC. Her practice areas spanned a broad spectrum of immigration and refugee applications with a focus on Permanent Resident applications and criminal inadmissibility issues. She also has decades of experience in adult education - teaching, writing and developing instructional materials such as the Immigration Practitioner’s Handbook published annually by Thomson Carswell Ltd. from 2006-2012.

Lynn is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queens University teaching in the Graduate Program in Immigration and Citizenship Law [GDipICL]. She has taught the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Course for the Program since its inception and has also served as the Coordinating Instructor with responsibility for the curriculum.

She has a B.A. in Communications from Simon Fraser University and an LL.B. from the University of Victoria. She is a licensee in good standing of the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC) and a member of the Canadian Bar Association, National Immigration Section. 

 

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