Presenter/s: Lynn Gaudet B.A., LLB., RCIC and Joshua Slayen JD
Date: 29 May 2024
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. Includes 3 hours of professionalism/Code of Professional Conduct. Video recording will expire 29 May 2025.
- LSBC 3 hours - 3 CPD hours approved. Video recording will expire on 31 December 2024. Attendance to this course will provide you with 45 minutes of ethics and professional responsibility component for your BC Law Society reporting.
- Law Societies of Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Barrister's Society of Nova Scotia
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- For members of these Law Societies, consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your mandatory annual requirements.
This 5-part series focuses on the RCIC Code of Professional Conduct providing expert guidance for both experienced RCICs and those just starting out. A very practical “how-to” approach is taken in each seminar to help RCICs properly fulfil all their professional duties to clients, as well as their duties to the College. All sessions will focus on common ethical pitfalls with examples, solutions and opportunities for participants to engage in resolving common issues for better practice management and preventing client complaints.
This session is designed for participants to pose questions about ethical dilemmas you have faced, and share your own solutions and obtain guidance from two seasoned practitioners: RCIC Lynn Gaudet and Immigration lawyer, Joshua Slayen.
This session is back by popular demand. It was terrific in 2023, so we brought it back. It is a different type of session where the Presenters will serve as facilitators for ethical issues raised by RCICs, sent in advance. It is designed to tackle difficult ethical problems you may be facing at present or have confronted in the past that may still be rattling you. Or perhaps you found the perfect solution and want to share it with colleagues. To request your ethical situation be on the Agenda for group discussion, please send it to the Presenter at LG@immigrationhelpdesk.com at least 5 days before the Seminar. Be sure to protect client confidentiality by changing any identifying information. A selection of these (as many as possible) will be chosen to address through examining the relevant Code duties and finding potential solutions. Time permitting, scenarios can be raised from the floor as well.
- Tough ethical problems
- Mitigation strategies
- Client relationships
- Perfect solutions that worked
- Professionalism
- Q & A
College of Citizenship and Immigration - Essential Competency mapping
RCIC
Professionalism
6.1 Demonstrates and maintains competence in practice
6.1.6 Builds collaborative relationships to encourage professional growth and development.
6.1.9 Identifies need and takes appropriate steeps to maintain and enhance competence.
6.1.10 Engages in Quality Management and continuing professional development activities and experiences as required by the regulatory organization.
6.4 Maintains security and confidentiality when collecting, sharing, transmitting and storing confidential information in accordance with legislation, regulations and the standards of the profession
6.6 Collaborates with other professionals to meet the needs of the client
6.6.3 Respects other professionals’ opinions and professional knowledge.
6.6.4 Builds rapport and trust within professional relationships.
Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Evidence-Based Practice
9.3 Adopts evidence-based practices in the provision of services.
9.3.2 Consults with others to identify best (evidence-based) practices.
RSISA
Professionalism
5.1 Demonstrates and maintains competence in practice
5.1.5 Recognizes own limitations and seeks support and assistance when needed.
5.4 Maintains security and confidentiality when collecting, sharing, transmitting and storing confidential information in accordance with legislation, regulations and the standards of the profession.
5.6 Collaborates with other professionals to meet the needs of the student.
5.6.3 Respects other professionals’ opinions and professional knowledge
5.6.4 Builds rapport and trust within professional relationships.
Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Evidence-Based Practice
8.3 Adopts evidence-based practices in the provision of services.
8.3.2 Consults with others to identify best (evidence-based) practices
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.
Joshua Slayen JD
Joshua is a Vancouver-based immigration lawyer who provides immigration services to individual and corporate clients world-wide.
Joshua regularly assists clients with immigration processing, admissibility issues, procedural fairness matters and refusals. He frequently appears at provincial and federal tribunals and levels of Court, and is well-known for his work in accompanying clients to ports-of-entry across Canada to resolve admissibility issues and facilitate the processing of complex work permit applications. Joshua also works with individuals and families, with an emphasis on employment, investment, citizenship, humanitarian / compassionate and family sponsorship-based applications.
Joshua has a diverse background in immigration law, which has included litigating complex immigration matters, and the processing of various temporary residence, permanent residence and citizenship applications to Immigration Refugee and Citizenship Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency and international Canadian visa offices. Prior to joining Coal Harbour Law Joshua practiced immigration law with other leading immigration firms in Canada. He was first called to the Bar in North Dakota (2009), and later called to the Bar in Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia.
Joshua is committed to helping clients turn visions into working realities through creative and innovative immigration strategies and a client-focused approach. Joshua has been blogging for The Huffington Post since 2012. He regularly lectures on immigration matters and has appeared on various media outlets.
In addition to Joshua’s Vancouver law practice, he has offices in Surrey, Abbotsford and Prince George, British Columbia.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, University of Winnipeg
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