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Login to watch this video if you have a subscription. Learn more about subscriptions.Now in its 21st year, this popular program offers the rare opportunity to hear directly from two Toronto Associate Judges, before whom you might appear in the future. They will walk you through the key stages of a civil motion, including procedure, presentation, practice management, remote communication, professionalism, and ethics.
Whether you are a Licensing Candidate, a recent call, new to arguing motions, or simply looking for a refresher, this session is for you.
Here’s what our speakers will cover:
Avoiding motions:
Why you want to avoid motions and how to go about it.
Preparing written materials:
How to write persuasively.
Start by considering what you want. Then draft your notice of motion to reflect that.
Ensure you understand the legal tests that apply so your evidentiary record covers each point.
Accurately present the current state of the law.
Service before filing
How to avoid pitfalls so your motion is not adjourned because it was not served on time or properly.
The oral presentation
Tips for effective oral advocacy, whether in person or remotely.
How to make a compelling argument, without deviating from the evidence or the applicable law, to ensure you’re heard and understood.
Advice on remote motions.
Ethical advocacy.
Mark Gannage, previously of Goodmans, McCarthy Tétrault, Stikeman Elliott, and Torys, is a deputy judge, certified adjudicator and mediator. He is the author of Gannage’s Ontario Civil Litigation Commentary and Checklist (Thomson Reuters), three chapters in Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Canadian Precedents of Pleadings (Thomson Reuters), published articles in the Annual Review of Civil Litigation, The Advocates’ Quarterly and elsewhere, and two federal law reform works. He is a Contributing Editor of the Toronto Law Journal. A former full time and adjunct law professor, Mr. Gannage conceived, designed and taught U of T Law School’s first course in Advance Legal Research, Analysis and Writing. Mr. Gannage was the first (and last!) Head of Legal Research and Analysis of the now deceased Bar Admission Course.
Master Josefo has been a Master of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario for two years. Prior to his appointment, for 28 years, Master Josefo was a civil litigator, practicing primarily but not exclusively in Labour and Employment Law, and Human Rights law as it pertained to employment. From 1999 through to 2018, he was a Vice Chair of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT). For nine years ending in 2018, Master Josefo also served as a member of Council, thus a member of the corporate board, of the National Research Council (NRC), Canada’s leading science and technology agency operating under the aegis of the Ministry of Industry. He was an elected public school board trustee in the 1990s. Master Josefo readily acknowledges that his most arduous challenge in the past decade was serving as the founding co-Chair of an owners’ group, and then President, of his condominium corporation for five years, followed by remaining on that Board for two more interminable years!
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