Start Date: 1/28/2025 12:30 PM EST
End Date: 1/28/2025 2:15 PM EST
Venue Name: Virtual
Organization Name:
Canadian Defence Lawyers
Contact:
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 12:30 pm ET
Where: Virtual Event
CPD Credits: 1.75 Hours Professionalism CPD Credits
Cost:
CDL Members - Early Bird $150.00 plus HST | Full Price $175.00 plus HST
Non-Members - Early Bird $175.00 plus HST | Full Price $200.00 plus HST
Early Bird Pricing Available Until Jan. 14
CDL Young Lawyers Practical Skills Series:
The "ABC's" of Discoveries
Co-Chaired by:
Sharu Ratnajothy, Dolden Wallace Folick LLP &
Aleksandar Tomasevic, Gore Mutual Insurance Co.
Speakers:
Charles Painter, Dolden Wallace Folick LLP
Loretta De Thomasis, Beard Winter LLP
Ada Lika, Intact Insurance
Andrew McKague, Zarek Taylor Grossman Hanrahan LLP
Ned Bozalo, Blaney McMurtry LLP
Raymond Ashurov, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Siobhan McClelland, McCague Borlack LLP
On January 28, 2025 join us as the CDL Young Lawyers Division brings back the popular and informative Practical Skills Series! This seminar will provide participants with invaluable insight, strategies, and methods from experienced counsel and industry experts when preparing Discoveries and Motions.
The 90-minute lunch-time discussion will cover:
PANEL 1: Discoveries 101
Before Examinations
- Affidavit of Documents –
- Who may be examined?
- How to decide whether to proceed In-Person vs Virtual Examinations-
- How to Prepare For Examinations for Discovery
During Examinations
- Undertakings – Anecdotal:
- When, if ever, do you put documents to witnesses on the record?
- What happens when witnesses don’t show up?
- When should you re-examine your witness? What are the considerations that go into that?
- How do you deal with difficult counsel?
- How do you deal with difficult witnesses?
PANEL 2: Discovery Motions – motions relating to discoveries
- Should you always post pone examinations until you are in receipt of production of police or Crown documents? Do you ever proceed without it?
- How often do you proceed with a further examination of the same witness?
- Have you ever brought a motion to examine a non-party prior to trial? What do you consider before bringing such a motion?
- Motion to Compel Documents from Third Party such as a corporation? How often have you done it and in what circumstances?
- What is the most common discovery related motion that you’ve brought?
