Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 336
  • Business and aboriginal law 35
  • Child protection 7
  • Criminal justice system 9
  • Dispute resolution 1
  • Family law 7
  • General 48
  • Indian Act
  • Indian residential schools
  • Lands and title 160
  • Litigation 61
  • Practice 7
  • Rights 126
  • Self-government 65
  • Tax issues 9
  • Treaty Negotiations 54
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 17
  • Wills and estates 2
• Access to Justice 3
  • Children 3
  • General 1
  • Indigenous child welfare 1
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
• Administrative Law 298
  • Abuse of discretion 10
  • Appellate review 27
  • Bias and impartiality
  • Charter cases 32
  • Choice of forum
  • Discipline proceedings 53
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 16
  • Judicial review 155
  • Jurisdiction 26
  • Natural justice 21
  • Parties
  • Practice 65
  • Remedies 24
  • Self-represented parties 1
  • Standard of review 12
  • Tribunals 89
• ADR 228
  • Arbitration 103
  • Collaborative law 13
  • Judicial review 7
  • Mediation 74
  • Mediation--family law 47
  • Practice 38
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 94
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 10
  • Appeals 3
  • Directors liability 12
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 9
  • General 64
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 10
  • Priorities 32
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 17
  • Receiving orders 7
  • Settlements and preferences 10
  • Trustees 11
• Builders Liens 34
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien
  • Enforcement 1
  • General 1
  • Holdbacks
  • Priority of liens
  • Solicitors liability
  • Subcontractors
• Business Law 485
  • Acquisitions and mergers 14
  • Amalgamations 3
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law 8
  • Buying and selling a business 38
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 1
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 66
  • Client Relations 9
  • Commercial litigation 68
  • Competition law 27
  • Continuations 1
  • Contracts 58
  • Corporate finance 36
  • Corporate governance 55
  • Corporate procedures 39
  • Directors 26
  • Dissolution and restoration 2
  • Ethics 5
  • Extra-provincial companies 4
  • Fiduciary 8
  • Franchising 11
  • Fraud 7
  • Incorporation and organization 44
  • International 10
  • Partnerships 28
  • Practice 6
  • Privacy 6
  • Professional Responsibility 12
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 28
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 11
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 67
• Childrens Law 1
  • Access to justice for children
  • Child development 1
  • Child protection
  • Child rights
  • Indigenous child welfare 1
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Communications Law 12
• Constitutional Law
  • Charter
  • Division of powers
  • Indigenous
• Creditors Remedies 70
  • Acting for the creditor 23
  • Acting for the debtor 12
  • Assets subject to attachment 7
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 13
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 1
  • Consumer Protection 1
  • Equitable remedies 5
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 7
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 3
  • Postjudgment remedies 8
  • Prejudgment garnishment 3
  • Priorities 26
  • Proceeding to judgment
  • Promissory notes
  • Repairers liens
  • Searches 2
• Criminal Law 252
  • Anti-terrorism 1
  • Appeals 9
  • Charter of Rights 70
  • Client Relations 4
  • Defences 32
  • Domestic violence
  • Ethics 12
  • Evidence 91
  • Indigenous legal orders
  • Judicial interim release 10
  • Juries 3
  • Offences 41
  • Practice 51
  • Prison law
  • Professional Responsibility 10
  • Restorative justice
  • Sentencing 41
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Young offenders 16
• Cultural Competency 4
  • Ethics 4
  • Professional responsibility 4
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Dispute Resolution
  • Arbitration
  • Choice of forum
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution
  • Mediation
  • Mediation—Family Law
  • Practice
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism
  • Ethics
  • Professional responsibility
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Employment Law 485
  • Benefits 18
  • Client Relations
  • Compensation 23
  • Defamation 2
  • Discrimination 151
  • Duties and liabilities 73
  • Employment contracts 86
  • Employment standards 65
  • Ethics 1
  • General 63
  • Mandatory Retirement 10
  • Occupational health and safety 48
  • Pensions 22
  • Practice 14
  • Privacy 65
  • Professional Responsibility 2
  • Sexual harassment 18
  • Tax issues 3
  • Wrongful dismissal 145
• Environmental Law 90
  • Climate change
  • Conservation covenants 2
  • Contaminated sites 19
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 24
  • Environmental protection 40
  • Forest practices 4
  • Indigenous 9
  • Insurance 4
  • Liability 31
  • Waste management 2
• Family Law 703
  • Access to justice for children
  • Adoption 6
  • ADR 67
  • Advocacy
  • Appeals 3
  • Assessments and reports 2
  • Assisted reproductive technologies 1
  • Child abduction
  • Child development
  • Child protection 103
  • Child rights 1
  • Child support 91
  • Client Relations 66
  • Collaborative law 15
  • Common law spouses 16
  • Conflict of laws 11
  • Costs 7
  • Custody and access 110
  • Division of property 149
  • Divorce 14
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 53
  • Evidence 54
  • Excluded property 5
  • Family law agreements
  • Family violence 2
  • Financial disclosure 2
  • General 64
  • Guardianship 41
  • Indigenous
  • Indigenous child welfare
  • Interim relief 30
  • Marriage 7
  • Marriage agreements 27
  • Mediation 42
  • Multiculturalism 12
  • Naming children 1
  • Orders 18
  • Parental alienation 1
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact 20
  • Pensions 14
  • Pleadings 79
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 13
  • Professional Responsibility 46
  • Property Agreements 13
  • Property Agreements 13
  • References to Registrar
  • Same-sex couples 6
  • Self-represented Litigants
  • Separation agreements 27
  • Significant unfairness 4
  • Spousal support 117
  • Tax issues 26
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trusts 4
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 25
  • Valuation 3
  • Views of child 2
• FOI and Privacy 117
• Health Law 50
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 420
  • BCHRA 69
  • Charter 149
  • CHRA 16
  • Client Relations 8
  • Discrimination 211
  • Ethics 4
  • Ethics 4
  • General 79
  • Indigenous human rights 6
  • Procedure 46
  • Professional Responsibility 8
  • Remedies 30
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Immigration 226
  • Admission 90
  • Appeals 43
  • Business immigrants 46
  • Citizenship 25
  • Client Relations 5
  • Detention 1
  • Ethics 5
  • Extradition 28
  • Labour market impact assessment
  • Permanent residency 24
  • Policy 55
  • Practice 38
  • Professional Responsibility 4
  • Provincial nominee program
  • Refugees 80
  • Tax issues 7
  • Visas 28
  • Work permits 1
• Indigenous Legal Orders 11
  • Child welfare 1
  • Dispute resolution
  • Education
  • Elders
  • Family
  • Health 1
  • Intellectual property
  • International law 3
  • Lands and titles 2
  • Language
  • Legal orders 3
  • Natural resources 3
  • Sovereignty 8
  • Stewardship 4
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Insurance 227
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 18
  • Agents 3
  • Bad faith
  • Breach
  • Claims 43
  • Contracts 37
  • Damages 9
  • Defences 35
  • Directors and officers insurance 7
  • Duties and liabilities 15
  • Exclusions 26
  • Fire insurance 3
  • Homeowners insurance 17
  • Lawyers liability insurance 6
  • Liability insurance generally 46
  • Life insurance 11
  • Litigation 74
  • Local government
  • Motor vehicle insurance 28
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 5
  • Property and loss of income insurance 4
  • Strata
  • Subrogation 22
• Intellectual Property 74
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 15
  • Computer software and Internet issues 10
  • Copyright 19
  • Disputes 4
  • Licensing 4
  • Litigation 4
  • Patents 12
  • Remedies 9
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 17
  • Trade secrets 22
• Labour Law 140
  • Arbitration 83
  • Certification and decertification 9
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 16
  • Industrial disputes 3
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 25
  • Picketing 6
  • Practice 10
  • Successorship 4
  • Unfair labour practices 11
  • Unions 36
• Legal Research and Writing 31
• Legal Support Staff 401
  • Business law for LSS 22
  • Civil litigation for LSS 82
  • Collections for LSS 7
  • Conveyancing for LSS 45
  • Corporate records for LSS 30
  • Estate administration for LSS 53
  • Family law for LSS 55
  • Foreclosures for LSS 15
  • Paralegals 1
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 71
  • PPSA for LSS 11
  • Research for LSS 9
  • Securities for LSS 41
• Litigation 1756
  • Aboriginal litigation 42
  • Advocacy skills 16
  • Affidavits 1
  • Appeals 41
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 5
  • Causes of action 96
  • Chambers applications 105
  • Class actions 93
  • Client Relations 28
  • Commercial litigation 94
  • Conflict of laws 11
  • Constitutional 26
  • Costs 123
  • Damages 60
  • Defamation 23
  • Discovery 167
  • Economic Loss 1
  • Estate litigation 118
  • Ethics 70
  • Evidence 340
  • Experts 173
  • Host Liability 3
  • Infants 5
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 2
  • Intellectual property litigation 17
  • Juries 26
  • Jurisdiction 51
  • Labour and employment litigation 58
  • Law Reform 25
  • Limitation of actions 8
  • Limitation Periods 25
  • Local government
  • Municipal 11
  • Orders 22
  • Pleadings 175
  • Practice 145
  • Pre-judgment remedies
  • Pre-trial Procedures 99
  • Professional Responsibility 51
  • Real estate litigation 96
  • Registrar practice
  • Releases
  • Remedies 26
  • Reviews 3
  • Securities litigation 32
  • Self-represented litigants
  • Settlement 84
  • Summary trials 33
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 3
  • Torts 105
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trials 194
  • Unrepresented Litigants 46
  • Vicarious liability 19
• Local Government
  • Building regulation
  • Bylaws
  • Contracts
  • Councils
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General
  • Land use planning
  • Licensing
  • Litigation
  • Taxation
  • Zoning
• Maritime Law 2
• Municipal Law 59
  • Actions by and against municipalities 4
  • Bylaws 9
  • Contracts 8
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management 3
  • General 15
  • Land use planning 12
  • Licensing 2
  • Litigation 15
  • Municipal councils 10
  • Powers of municipality 25
  • Subdivision 5
  • Zoning 4
• Natural Resources 92
  • Aboriginal rights 27
  • Fisheries law 5
  • Forestry law 33
  • General 10
  • Indigenous legal orders 3
  • Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship 9
  • Mining law 38
  • Oil and gas law 5
  • Water 1
  • Wildlife 1
• Personal Injury 293
  • Client Relations 13
  • Costs 1
  • Damages 73
  • Defences 33
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 16
  • Experts
  • Family compensation claims 6
  • Host Liability 13
  • Injuries 59
  • Insurance 29
  • Mediation 16
  • Medical malpractice 6
  • Motor vehicle accidents 72
  • Occupiers liability 6
  • Part 7 benefits 32
  • Practice 86
  • Professional Responsibility 18
  • Structured settlements and judgments 13
  • Tax issues 7
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 379
  • Billing 51
  • Client development 30
  • Client Relations 96
  • Conduct and the Law Society 29
  • Document management 90
  • Employee hiring and retention 12
  • Ethics 117
  • In House Counsel 3
  • Insurance 11
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 30
  • Partnership issues 2
  • Professional Responsibility 2
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
  • Solicitor-client privilege 37
  • Technology 41
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trust accounting 16
  • Wellness 1
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 167
  • Client Relations 59
  • Ethics 148
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Real Estate 632
  • Affidavits
  • Agents and brokers 15
  • Assessment 39
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 10
  • Certificate of pending litigation
  • Charges on title 12
  • Client Relations 12
  • Closing procedures 15
  • Commercial leases 66
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general
  • Construction contracts 97
  • Construction litigation 59
  • Conveyancing practice 25
  • Development cost charges 14
  • Development--general 68
  • Development rights 10
  • Easement
  • Environmental issues 22
  • Ethics 17
  • Expropriation 2
  • Financing 11
  • Foreclosure 69
  • Government approvals 1
  • Indian Act conveyancing 7
  • Land Title Office 6
  • Legal proceedings 90
  • Licensees
  • Manufactured homes 4
  • Mortgages 35
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 3
  • Professional Responsibility 6
  • Purchase contract 27
  • Residential tenancies 12
  • Searches and investigations 8
  • Site development control 2
  • Statements of adjustments
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 37
  • Strata plans 8
  • Strata properties--general 70
  • Structure of the developer
  • Subdivision 20
  • Surveys 2
  • Tax issues 59
  • Title 9
  • Undertakings 2
  • Vancouver Charter 2
  • Zoning 2
• School Law 47
• Secured Transactions 42
  • Chattel mortgages 1
  • Conflict of laws 1
  • Debtor protection 6
  • Due diligence 5
  • Enforcement 4
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 5
  • General 10
  • Intellectual property 3
  • Loans 1
  • Mortgages 7
  • Perfection 1
  • Purchase money security interests 2
  • Receivers 1
  • Registration 9
  • Security agreements 9
  • Security interests 5
• Securities 152
  • Appeals 4
  • BC Securities Commission 13
  • Disclosure 33
  • Due diligence 4
  • General 58
  • Hearings 8
  • Investigations 4
  • Judicial review 6
  • Local Policy Statements 1
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
  • Offences 18
  • Orders 8
  • Practice 13
  • Private placement 9
  • Public offering 15
  • Regulation 25
  • Searches 4
  • Stockbrokers 2
  • Stock exchanges 11
  • Stock options 7
  • Takeover bids 17
  • Underwriters 1
• Solicitor 139
  • Conduct and the Law Society 39
  • Conflict of interest 33
  • Ethics 50
  • Solicitor-client privilege 41
• Strata Law 7
  • Insurance 1
  • Strata Corporations 3
  • Strata Plans 1
• Tax 212
  • Aboriginal tax issues 7
  • Anti-avoidance rules
  • Appeals 2
  • Audits 4
  • Buying and selling a business 6
  • Capital gains 6
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 4
  • Collection practices and procedures 1
  • Corporate 50
  • Family law tax issues 21
  • Foreign income 3
  • General 9
  • Goods and Services Tax 29
  • Income splitting and attribution rules 1
  • Income tax 12
  • Intellectual property tax issues 2
  • Lawyers and law firms 5
  • Offshore taxation 3
  • Partnership 3
  • Pensions 1
  • Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 2
  • Practice 5
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 13
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 8
  • Reorganizations 5
  • Rollovers 4
  • Sales tax 18
  • Shares and shareholders 6
  • Tax litigation 2
  • Tax planning 6
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 69
• Technology Law 97
  • Intellectual property 17
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 1
  • Online contract formation 5
  • Practice 33
  • Privacy laws 19
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 14
  • Research 23
• Wills Estates and Trusts 565
  • Administration application 36
  • Adult guardianship 42
  • Charitable giving 9
  • Client Relations 33
  • Committeeship 3
  • Curative provisions 4
  • Devolution of assets 47
  • Elder care 94
  • Estate litigation 151
  • Estate planning 195
  • Ethics 21
  • Executors and trustees 42
  • Fiduciary 5
  • General 50
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 10
  • Life estate 1
  • Multijurisdictional estates 11
  • Passing of accounts
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 5
  • Practice 1
  • Probate application 40
  • Professional Responsibility 31
  • Rectifying wills 3
  • Representation agreement 3
  • Tax issues 94
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trust planning 128
  • Wills 72
  • Wills challenges 9
• Workers Compensation 48
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 4
  • Claims 20
  • General 14
  • Liability of employer 15
  • Procedure 16
  • Workers Compensation Board 5