Moderator: Catherine Sas KC
Date: 02 April 2025
Time: noon - 5:30 pm Pacific
Location:
Segal Graduate School of Business
Simon Fraser University
500 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC
V6B 1V8
CPD approval:
- CICC - 5 CPD hours approved. Includes 60 minutes of professionalism. Recording valid until 02 April 2026.
- LSBC - 5 CPD hours approved, recording valid until 31 December 2025. Attendance to this course will provide you with 60 minutes of ethics and professional responsibility component for your BC Law Society reporting.
Includes 60 minutes of professionalism.
Law Societies of Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia
For members of these Law Societies, consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your mandatory annual requirements.
Outline
11:30am - noon - In person registration
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Federal Court of Canada pronouncements on Mental Health issues in Immigration cases
Panelist: Deanna Okun Nachoff, LL.B.
- A review of federal court jurisprudence on the application of mental health concerns in immigration applications: student, H and C and PRRA applications and Stay of Removal proceedings
- Best practices for evidence and counsel submissions
- Client considerations about mental health issues
1:00pm to 1:30pm
How LEXBASE can boost your litigation practice
Panelists: Richard Kurland, LL.B. and Tiffany Chi. RCIC
- Using Lexbase as a powerful tool in an immigration practitioner's war chest
1:30pm - 2:30pm
LITIGATION UPDATE
Panelists: Steven Meurrens , J.D. and Victor Ing, LL.B.
- A review of the leading Canadian jurisprudence in immigration practice
2:30pm – 2:45pm
Health break
2:45pm to 3:30pm
Start Up Visa update
Panelists: Catherine Sas, K.C., Alex Stoijevic, LL.B.
3:30pm to 4:15pm
Mandamus Applications: Moving things Along
Panelists: Victor Ing, LL.B., Steven Meurrens , LL.B.
- Understanding mandamus applications, the procedural steps and possible outcomes
4:15pm to 4:45pm
Litigation and Immigration Consultants: Oxymoron?
- Panelists: Tiffany Chi, RCIC and Alex Ning, RCIC
- Litigation isn’t just for lawyers. Understanding how consultants can best incorporate litigation into their immigration practices.
4:45pm to 5:15pm
30 Litigation Tips in 30 Minutes
Panelists:
1) Deanna Okun-Nachoff, LL.B.
2) Alex Stoijevic, LL.B.
3) Tiffany Chi, RCIC
4) Richard Kurland, LL.B.
5) Alex Ning, RCIC
6) Steven Meurrens , LL.B.
- 6 leading practitioners provide 5 tips each on litigation practice
CICC Essential Competency mapping
RCIC
Foundational Knowledge
1.3 Interprets Canadian immigration and refugee legislation, regulations and policies.
1.3.4 Accurately applies immigration, refugee and citizenship legislation, regulation and policies to various cases.
Legal Research and Informatics
Competency
3.2Determines and locates reliable information and applicable law or policies that address the objective of research.
3.2.1 Identifies reliable research tools to obtain primary and secondary sources of law and other information that is relevant to the issue and the client case.
Professionalism
6.1 Demonstrates and maintains competence in practice
6.1.2 Stays current and complies with legislations, regulation, professional standards, policies and guidelines.
6.1.8 Keeps current with evolving technology and emerging trends in immigration.
6.5 Recognizes and maintains professional boundaries in practice.
Communication, Counselling and Advocacy
8.2 Uses effective counselling skills when interacting with the client.
8.2.4 Dynamically assesses and sorts through the information for importance and relevancy to the issues
Moderator:
Catherine Sas KC
Catherine has been providing a full range of immigration legal services for over 30 years and is recognized as a leading immigration practitioner by Lexpert and Best Lawyers in Canada. Catherine has been voted Best Immigration Lawyer in the Georgia Straight’s “Best of Vancouver” for many years.
Catherine is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, American Bar Association, American Immigration Lawyers Association, and International Bar Association. Catherine is the past National Chair of the Immigration Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association and a past Co-Chair of the Immigration and Citizenship Committee of the International Bar Association. She is also registered as a Foreign Legal Consultant with the State Bar of California which enables her to better serve her American clientele in the film and television and digital media industries.
Catherine has been part of Team Canada and Team British Columbia trade missions to countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, China, Hong Kong, and the United States. She has participated in Continuing Legal Education seminars, appeared at parliamentary committees on immigration issues, and spoken at international conferences and symposiums. Catherine has worked extensively with clientele from around the world and travels frequently internationally to assist her clients with their Canadian immigration goals.
While speakers and topics are confirmed at the time of publication, sometimes things happen which are beyond the control of Imm Seminars. If that happens substitutions or cancellations to speaker/s and/or topic/s may be necessary. In those cases, Imm Seminars will advise all registrants by email as soon as possible. We will also update the Imm Seminars website. We appreciate your cooperation in these cases.
