- Instructors
Adrienne Smith and Chantal Desloges
- Date
February 27, 2025 at 12:00pm EST
- Price
$105
- Duration
3.5 hours
- Format
Attend Live and On-Demand Recording
SUMMARY
The word “litigation” strikes fear into the hearts of many practitioners. This course demystifies the common issues and procedures arising from appearing before the various branches of the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), with a particular focus on the Immigration Appeal Division and the Refugee Protection Division, but also touching on the Immigration Division and Refugee Appeal Division. For each topic, case scenarios are used, and relevant ethics and professional issues will be discussed.
- Attendance at the live webinar
- Access to the course materials
- Ability to watch the webinar until December 31, 2026
- Certificate of Completion
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- Statutory framework
- Understanding the Tribunal’s Jurisdiction
- Putting together your theory of the case
- Reviewing the Minister’s materials
- Knowing and Using the Rules to your Advantage
- Collecting and submitting your disclosure
- Choosing and preparing your witnesses
- Preliminary and interlocutory issues
- Crafting Your Closing Submissions
- Current Hot Topics and Relevant New Cases in IRB Litigation
CPD CREDITS
Substantive Hours: This program is eligible for up to 3.5 hours.
Approved for 3.5 CPD credits.
For members of these Law Societies, consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your mandatory annual requirements
Approved for 3.5 CPD Hours
Video recording valid until February 27, 2026
Learn from experts in their field by purchasing this course
- Discounted course rates
- Fulfill your yearly CPD requirements in one purchase
- Expand your knowledge
INSTRUCTOR
Chantal Desloges is certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a Specialist in both Citizenship/Immigration law and Refugee law. Her practice encompasses every possible area of Canadian citizenship, immigration and refugee law, such as business class applications, skilled workers, family sponsorships, work and study permits, refugee cases, citizenship applications, plus Appeals and Judicial Reviews of refused cases. She was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1999 and is the founding and senior partner of Desloges Law Group.
Chantal taught Immigration Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2000/2001. She also taught in the Immigration Practitioner Certificate Programme at Seneca College from 1999 – 2010 and the Immigration Consultant Diploma at Herzing College from 2015 – 2018. She currently teaches a number of continuing professional development programs for LPEN, IMEDA and the Ontario Bar Association, among others.
In November, 2016, Chantal and her good friend Cathryn Sawicki published the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law: A Practitioner’s Handbook. Chantal has been called upon 15 times by Parliamentary and Senate Committees to appear as an expert witness on immigration and refugee issues.
In 2012, Chantal was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, followed by the Canadian Bar Association Young Lawyers’ Pro Bono award. In 2013, Chantal was appointed by the Minister of Justice to serve on the Federal Court Rules Committee, and was reappointed for a further term in 2016. In 2014, Chantal was also elected to the Executive of the Canadian Bar Association, Immigration Section, where she served until 2018.
Chantal is a regular immigration commentator on CTV Power Play, and has been interviewed by both national and local television stations such as CBC, CTV National News, W5, Canada AM, Global News and CP24. She has also been interviewed and quoted in national and local newspapers such as the Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, Globe and Mail, National Post and the Ottawa Citizen.
Adrienne has a full-service legal practice with expertise in litigation and administrative appeals. Her legal experience is concentrated in matters before Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the Federal Court and the Immigration and Refugee Board.
She regularly represents clients with all types of permanent and temporary applications to Canada, including medical and criminal inadmissibility issues, sponsorship applications and appeals, refugee claims and appeals, Federal Court applications, humanitarian and compassionate applications, study and visitor visas, and detention reviews.
Adrienne has been invited as an expert to speak on medical inadmissibility before Canada’s House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, which monitor’s federal immigration policies.
She is an Instructor with Ryerson’s Faculty of Law and the University of British Columbia’s Continuing Education Program. Adrienne has been invited to speak as a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law and York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies.
