Practice Areas
-
Aboriginal Law
330
- Business and aboriginal law 29
- Child protection 7
- Criminal justice system 9
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 7
- General 42
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools
- Lands and title 154
- Litigation 60
- Practice 7
- Rights 120
- Self-government 59
- Tax issues 9
- Treaty Negotiations 54
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations 17
- Wills and estates 2
- Access to Justice 3
-
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 222
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 94
- Builders Liens 34
-
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
- Communications Law 12
- Constitutional Law
-
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
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism
-
Employment Law
484
- 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 13
- Privacy 65
- Professional Responsibility 2
- Sexual harassment 18
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 145
- Environmental Law 84
-
Family Law
695
- Access to justice for children
- Adoption 6
- ADR 67
- Advocacy
- Appeals 3
- Assessments and reports 2
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Child abduction
- Child development
- Child protection 103
- Child rights 1
- Child support 91
- Client Relations 65
- Collaborative law 15
- Common law spouses 16
- Conflict of laws 11
- Costs 7
- Custody and access 110
- Division of property 147
- Divorce 13
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 53
- Evidence 54
- Excluded property 3
- Family law agreements
- Family violence 2
- Financial disclosure 2
- General 64
- Guardianship 41
- Indigenous
- Indigenous child welfare
- Interim relief 30
- Marriage 4
- Marriage agreements 26
- Mediation 42
- Multiculturalism 12
- Naming children 1
- Orders 18
- Parental alienation 1
- Parenting responsibilities and contact 20
- Pensions 13
- Pleadings 79
- Pre-nuptial agreements 13
- Professional Responsibility 44
- Property Agreements 13
- Property Agreements 13
- References to Registrar
- Same-sex couples 6
- Self-represented Litigants
- Separation agreements 27
- Significant unfairness 3
- Spousal support 115
- Tax issues 26
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trusts 3
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 25
- Valuation 2
- Views of child 2
- FOI and Privacy 117
- Health Law 50
- Human Rights 414
- Immigration 225
- Indigenous Legal Orders 6
-
Insurance
224
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 18
- Agents 3
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 41
- 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 71
- Local government
- Motor vehicle insurance 28
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 5
- Property and loss of income insurance 4
- Strata
- Subrogation 22
- Intellectual Property 70
- Labour Law 138
- Legal Research and Writing 31
-
Legal Support Staff
400
- 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 53
- Family law for LSS 55
- Foreclosures for LSS 15
- Paralegals
- Personal injury practice for LSS 71
- PPSA for LSS 11
- Research for LSS 9
- Securities for LSS 41
-
Litigation
1749
- Aboriginal litigation 42
- Advocacy skills 16
- Affidavits
- Appeals 41
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 5
- Causes of action 95
- 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 69
- Evidence 340
- 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
- Local government
- Municipal 11
- Orders 22
- Pleadings 173
- Practice 143
- 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
- Maritime Law 2
- Municipal Law 59
- Natural Resources 86
-
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
377
- 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
-
Real Estate
629
- 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 34
- Strata plans 7
- Strata properties--general 67
- 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
-
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
- Strata Law 4
-
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
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
558
- Administration application 36
- Adult guardianship 42
- Charitable giving 9
- Client Relations 32
- Committeeship 3
- Curative provisions 4
- Devolution of assets 46
- Elder care 94
- Estate litigation 148
- Estate planning 191
- Ethics 21
- Executors and trustees 42
- Fiduciary 5
- General 50
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues 8
- Life estate 1
- Multijurisdictional estates 11
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney 5
- Practice 1
- Probate application 40
- Professional Responsibility 29
- Rectifying wills 3
- Representation agreement 3
- Tax issues 93
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 127
- Wills 71
- Wills challenges 8
- Workers Compensation 48
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-
Aboriginal Law
330
- Business and aboriginal law 29
- Child protection 7
- Criminal justice system 9
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 7
- General 42
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools
- Lands and title 154
- Litigation 60
- Practice 7
- Rights 120
- Self-government 59
- Tax issues 9
- Treaty Negotiations 54
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations 17
- Wills and estates 2
- Access to Justice 3
-
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 222
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 94
- Builders Liens 34
-
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
- Communications Law 12
- Constitutional Law
-
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
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism
-
Employment Law
484
- 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 13
- Privacy 65
- Professional Responsibility 2
- Sexual harassment 18
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 145
- Environmental Law 84
-
Family Law
695
- Access to justice for children
- Adoption 6
- ADR 67
- Advocacy
- Appeals 3
- Assessments and reports 2
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Child abduction
- Child development
- Child protection 103
- Child rights 1
- Child support 91
- Client Relations 65
- Collaborative law 15
- Common law spouses 16
- Conflict of laws 11
- Costs 7
- Custody and access 110
- Division of property 147
- Divorce 13
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 53
- Evidence 54
- Excluded property 3
- Family law agreements
- Family violence 2
- Financial disclosure 2
- General 64
- Guardianship 41
- Indigenous
- Indigenous child welfare
- Interim relief 30
- Marriage 4
- Marriage agreements 26
- Mediation 42
- Multiculturalism 12
- Naming children 1
- Orders 18
- Parental alienation 1
- Parenting responsibilities and contact 20
- Pensions 13
- Pleadings 79
- Pre-nuptial agreements 13
- Professional Responsibility 44
- Property Agreements 13
- Property Agreements 13
- References to Registrar
- Same-sex couples 6
- Self-represented Litigants
- Separation agreements 27
- Significant unfairness 3
- Spousal support 115
- Tax issues 26
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trusts 3
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 25
- Valuation 2
- Views of child 2
- FOI and Privacy 117
- Health Law 50
- Human Rights 414
- Immigration 225
- Indigenous Legal Orders 6
-
Insurance
224
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 18
- Agents 3
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 41
- 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 71
- Local government
- Motor vehicle insurance 28
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 5
- Property and loss of income insurance 4
- Strata
- Subrogation 22
- Intellectual Property 70
- Labour Law 138
- Legal Research and Writing 31
-
Legal Support Staff
400
- 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 53
- Family law for LSS 55
- Foreclosures for LSS 15
- Paralegals
- Personal injury practice for LSS 71
- PPSA for LSS 11
- Research for LSS 9
- Securities for LSS 41
-
Litigation
1749
- Aboriginal litigation 42
- Advocacy skills 16
- Affidavits
- Appeals 41
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 5
- Causes of action 95
- 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 69
- Evidence 340
- 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
- Local government
- Municipal 11
- Orders 22
- Pleadings 173
- Practice 143
- 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
- Maritime Law 2
- Municipal Law 59
- Natural Resources 86
-
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
377
- 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
-
Real Estate
629
- 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 34
- Strata plans 7
- Strata properties--general 67
- 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
-
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
- Strata Law 4
-
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
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
558
- Administration application 36
- Adult guardianship 42
- Charitable giving 9
- Client Relations 32
- Committeeship 3
- Curative provisions 4
- Devolution of assets 46
- Elder care 94
- Estate litigation 148
- Estate planning 191
- Ethics 21
- Executors and trustees 42
- Fiduciary 5
- General 50
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues 8
- Life estate 1
- Multijurisdictional estates 11
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney 5
- Practice 1
- Probate application 40
- Professional Responsibility 29
- Rectifying wills 3
- Representation agreement 3
- Tax issues 93
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 127
- Wills 71
- Wills challenges 8
- Workers Compensation 48
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