Planning for Health Care Decisions - Implications for Your Practice

Course Chair
D. Peter Ramsay, QC — Ramsay Lampman Rhodes, Nanaimo

About the Course Chair
D. Peter Ramsay, QC was called to the bar in BC in 1970 and has practiced in Nanaimo since then, presently in the 19-lawyer firm Ramsay Lampman Rhodes. He has litigated with respect to estate and other civil matters in trial and appellant courts. In 1997, he received his masters of laws degree from UBC with a thesis on the Wills Variation Act. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1999.  From 2002 to 2010, he taught succession and trust law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law and until 2017 was an adjunct professor at SFU teaching a personal planning course in the Masters of Applied Legal Studies program.

Peter has served as a Bencher of the Law Society of BC, and as both a board member and the chairman of CLEBC. He has been a board member and chair of the BC Law Institute. He chaired the Succession Law Reform Project and the Probate Rules Reform Project which resulted in the Wills, Estates, and Succession Act and the new Supreme Court Probate Rules.

Faculty
Jay Aubrey — Counsel (Litigation), BC Civil Liberties Association, Vancouver 
Dr. Ellen Wiebe — Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice, University of BC, Vancouver
Penny A. Washington — Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Vancouver 
Geoffrey W. White — Geoffrey W. White Law Corporation & Counsel, Clark Wilson LLP, Kelowna & Vancouver

Course Materials Contributor
Erica Grant — Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Vancouver 

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Welcome and Introduction 

D. Peter Ramsay, QC — Ramsay Lampman Rhodes, Nanaimo 

The Legal Framework 

• MAiD
• health authorities

Penny A. Washington —Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Vancouver 

Pysician Perspective and Experiences 

• assessments
• provision of MAiD
• challenges providers and patients face
• what lawyers need to know when advocating for their clients

Dr. Ellen Wiebe — Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice, University of BC, Vancouver 

Case Challenges 

• criteria for eligibility for MAiD under the federal law
• issues arising in the Lamb case

Jay Aubrey — Counsel (Litigation), BC Civil Liberties Association, Vancouver

Break

Consent — Personal and Substituted 

• statutory default
• representation agreements
• advance directives
• committee of the person
• involuntary admission Mental Health Act 
• health authority and physician form

Penny A. Washington — Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Vancouver 
Geoffrey W. White — Geoffrey W. White Law Corporation & Counsel, Clark Wilson LLP, Kelowna & Vancouver 

Consent — Drafting 

• how best to ensure client's wishes are respected
• dealing with multiple agreements and authorizations

Jay Aubrey — Counsel (Litigation), BC Civil Liberties Association, Vancouver
Penny A. Washington — Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Vancouver
Geoffrey W. White — Geoffrey W. White Law Corporation & Counsel, Clark Wilson LLP, Kelowna & Vancouver 

Closing Remarks 

D. Peter Ramsay, QC — Ramsay Lampman Rhodes, Nanaimo