Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 326
  • Business and aboriginal law 25
  • Child protection 4
  • Criminal justice system 9
  • Family law 7
  • General 39
  • Lands and title 151
  • Litigation 63
  • Practice 10
  • Rights 117
  • Self-government 58
  • Tax issues 9
  • Treaty Negotiations 54
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 17
  • Wills and estates 2
• Administrative Law 277
  • Abuse of discretion 10
  • Appellate review 26
  • Charter cases 30
  • Discipline proceedings 47
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 16
  • Judicial review 143
  • Jurisdiction 23
  • Natural justice 19
  • Practice 45
  • Remedies 21
  • Tribunals 85
• ADR 217
  • Arbitration 89
  • Collaborative law 13
  • Judicial review 7
  • Mediation 70
  • Mediation--family law 41
  • Practice 27
• 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
  • Proposals 17
  • Receiving orders 7
  • Settlements and preferences 10
  • Trustees 11
• Builders Liens 33
• Business Law 480
  • Acquisitions and mergers 12
  • Amalgamations 3
  • Banking law 8
  • Buying and selling a business 29
  • Capital alterations 1
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 66
  • Client Relations 2
  • Commercial litigation 67
  • Competition law 26
  • Continuations 1
  • Contracts 58
  • Corporate finance 39
  • Corporate governance 55
  • Corporate procedures 37
  • Directors 26
  • Dissolution and restoration 2
  • Ethics 4
  • Extra-provincial companies 4
  • Fiduciary 8
  • Franchising 5
  • Fraud 7
  • Incorporation and organization 44
  • International 8
  • Partnerships 28
  • Practice 4
  • Privacy 6
  • Professional Responsibility 6
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 28
  • Shares 11
  • Tax issues 67
• Communications Law 12
• Creditors Remedies 67
  • Acting for the creditor 21
  • Acting for the debtor 12
  • Assets subject to attachment 7
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 12
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens
  • 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
  • Repairers liens
  • Searches 2
• Criminal Law 254
  • Anti-terrorism 1
  • Appeals 9
  • Charter of Rights 69
  • Client Relations 4
  • Defences 32
  • Ethics 12
  • Evidence 91
  • Judicial interim release 9
  • Juries 3
  • Offences 42
  • Practice 50
  • Professional Responsibility 11
  • Sentencing 41
  • Young offenders 16
• Employment Law 471
  • Benefits 16
  • Client Relations
  • Compensation 18
  • Defamation 2
  • Discrimination 151
  • Duties and liabilities 64
  • Employment contracts 78
  • Employment standards 60
  • Ethics 1
  • General 62
  • Mandatory Retirement 10
  • Occupational health and safety 48
  • Pensions 22
  • Practice 9
  • Privacy 63
  • Professional Responsibility 3
  • Sexual harassment 17
  • Tax issues 3
  • Wrongful dismissal 142
• Environmental Law 81
  • Conservation covenants 2
  • Contaminated sites 19
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 21
  • Environmental protection 31
  • Forest practices 4
  • Insurance 4
  • Liability 31
  • Waste management 2
• Family Law 674
  • Adoption 4
  • ADR 61
  • Advocacy
  • Appeals 3
  • Child protection 94
  • Child support 90
  • Client Relations 62
  • Collaborative law 15
  • Common law spouses 16
  • Conflict of laws 11
  • Costs 7
  • Custody and access 119
  • Division of property 145
  • Divorce 11
  • Ethics 50
  • Evidence 52
  • General 56
  • Guardianship 39
  • Interim relief 29
  • Marriage 4
  • Marriage agreements 25
  • Mediation 39
  • Multiculturalism 10
  • Naming children 1
  • Orders 13
  • Pensions 13
  • Pleadings 71
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 12
  • Professional Responsibility 41
  • Property Agreements 13
  • Property Agreements 13
  • References to Registrar
  • Same-sex couples 6
  • Separation agreements 24
  • Spousal support 114
  • Tax issues 26
  • Unrepresented Litigants 15
• FOI and Privacy 116
• Health Law 50
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 409
  • BCHRA 68
  • Charter 150
  • CHRA 16
  • Client Relations 6
  • Discrimination 208
  • Ethics 2
  • Ethics 2
  • General 70
  • Procedure 46
  • Professional Responsibility 4
  • Remedies 29
• Immigration 223
  • Admission 92
  • Appeals 38
  • Business immigrants 49
  • Citizenship 22
  • Client Relations 8
  • Ethics 5
  • Extradition 28
  • Permanent residency 23
  • Policy 54
  • Practice 35
  • Professional Responsibility 4
  • Refugees 76
  • Tax issues 7
  • Visas 29
• Insurance 223
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 18
  • Agents 3
  • Claims 40
  • Contracts 35
  • Damages 9
  • Defences 34
  • 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 70
  • Motor vehicle insurance 28
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 5
  • Property and loss of income insurance 4
  • Subrogation 22
• Intellectual Property 70
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 15
  • Computer software and Internet issues 10
  • Copyright 18
  • Licensing 4
  • Patents 11
  • Remedies 9
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 17
  • Trade secrets 21
• Labour Law 138
  • Arbitration 83
  • Certification and decertification 9
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 16
  • Industrial disputes 3
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 23
  • Picketing 6
  • Practice 8
  • Successorship 4
  • Unfair labour practices 11
  • Unions 36
• Legal Research and Writing 32
• Legal Support Staff 405
  • Business law for LSS 22
  • Civil litigation for LSS 81
  • Collections for LSS 7
  • Conveyancing for LSS 45
  • Corporate records for LSS 30
  • Estate administration for LSS 58
  • Family law for LSS 55
  • Foreclosures for LSS 15
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 71
  • PPSA for LSS 11
  • Research for LSS 9
  • Securities for LSS 41
• Litigation 1737
  • Aboriginal litigation 42
  • Advocacy skills 16
  • Appeals 41
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 5
  • Causes of action 95
  • Chambers applications 102
  • Class actions 91
  • Client Relations 28
  • Commercial litigation 93
  • Conflict of laws 11
  • Constitutional 26
  • Costs 119
  • Damages 60
  • Defamation 23
  • Discovery 168
  • Economic Loss 1
  • Estate litigation 114
  • Ethics 67
  • Evidence 336
  • Experts 173
  • Host Liability 3
  • Infants 5
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 2
  • Intellectual property litigation 13
  • Juries 26
  • Jurisdiction 51
  • Labour and employment litigation 58
  • Law Reform 25
  • Limitation of actions 8
  • Limitation Periods 25
  • Municipal 11
  • Orders 22
  • Pleadings 171
  • Practice 140
  • Pre-trial Procedures 99
  • Professional Responsibility 46
  • Real estate litigation 97
  • Remedies 26
  • Reviews 3
  • Securities litigation 32
  • Settlement 83
  • Summary trials 33
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 3
  • Torts 105
  • Trials 195
  • Unrepresented Litigants 46
  • Vicarious liability 19
• 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 82
  • Aboriginal rights 18
  • Fisheries law 2
  • Forestry law 29
  • General 10
  • Mining law 37
  • Oil and gas law 5
  • Water 1
  • Wildlife 1
• Personal Injury 294
  • Client Relations 13
  • Damages 72
  • Defences 32
  • Ethics 16
  • Family compensation claims 6
  • Host Liability 13
  • Injuries 59
  • Insurance 29
  • Mediation 16
  • Medical malpractice 6
  • Motor vehicle accidents 73
  • Occupiers liability 6
  • Part 7 benefits 30
  • Practice 84
  • Professional Responsibility 18
  • Structured settlements and judgments 12
  • Tax issues 7
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 377
  • Billing 50
  • Client development 31
  • Client Relations 95
  • Conduct and the Law Society 29
  • Document management 90
  • Employee hiring and retention 13
  • Ethics 116
  • In House Counsel 3
  • Insurance 11
  • Management and organization of firms 32
  • Partnership issues 2
  • Professional Responsibility 2
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
  • Solicitor-client privilege 39
  • Technology 40
  • Trust accounting 16
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 168
  • Client Relations 61
  • Ethics 148
• Real Estate 623
  • Agents and brokers 14
  • Assessment 39
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 9
  • Charges on title 12
  • Client Relations 12
  • Closing procedures 14
  • Commercial leases 65
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general
  • Construction contracts 97
  • Construction litigation 59
  • Conveyancing practice 25
  • Development cost charges 14
  • Development--general 68
  • Development rights 10
  • Environmental issues 22
  • Ethics 17
  • Expropriation 2
  • Financing 10
  • Foreclosure 64
  • Government approvals 1
  • Indian Act conveyancing 8
  • Land Title Office 8
  • Legal proceedings 90
  • Manufactured homes 4
  • Mortgages 32
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 3
  • Professional Responsibility 6
  • Purchase contract 28
  • Residential tenancies 12
  • Searches and investigations 8
  • Site development control 2
  • Statements of adjustments
  • Strata corporations 34
  • Strata plans 7
  • Strata properties--general 66
  • 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 155
  • Appeals 3
  • BC Securities Commission 13
  • Disclosure 32
  • Due diligence 4
  • General 60
  • Hearings 6
  • Investigations 4
  • Judicial review 6
  • Local Policy Statements 1
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
  • Offences 16
  • Orders 7
  • Practice 11
  • Private placement 10
  • Public offering 15
  • Regulation 26
  • Searches 4
  • Stockbrokers 2
  • Stock exchanges 11
  • Stock options 7
  • Takeover bids 15
  • Underwriters 1
• Solicitor 139
  • Conduct and the Law Society 39
  • Conflict of interest 33
  • Ethics 50
  • Solicitor-client privilege 41
• Tax 211
  • 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 8
  • 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 5
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 68
• 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 536
  • Administration application 41
  • Adult guardianship 41
  • Charitable giving 8
  • Client Relations 33
  • Devolution of assets 41
  • Elder care 93
  • Estate litigation 134
  • Estate planning 180
  • Ethics 21
  • Executors and trustees 39
  • Fiduciary 3
  • General 50
  • Multijurisdictional estates 10
  • Probate application 38
  • Professional Responsibility 31
  • Tax issues 88
  • Trust planning 121
  • Wills 66
• Workers Compensation 47
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 4
  • Claims 19
  • General 13
  • Liability of employer 15
  • Procedure 15
  • Workers Compensation Board 5