Practice Areas
-
Aboriginal Law
326
- Business and aboriginal law 25
- Child protection 6
- Criminal justice system 9
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 7
- General 38
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools
- Lands and title 151
- Litigation 60
- Practice 7
- Rights 116
- Self-government 58
- Tax issues 9
- Treaty Negotiations 54
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations 17
- Wills and estates 2
- Access to Justice
-
Administrative Law
290
- Abuse of discretion 10
- Appellate review 27
- Bias and impartiality
- Charter cases 30
- Choice of forum
- Discipline proceedings 47
- Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 16
- Judicial review 147
- Jurisdiction 26
- Natural justice 21
- Parties
- Practice 58
- Remedies 23
- Self-represented parties
- Standard of review
- Tribunals 92
- ADR 218
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 94
- Builders Liens 33
-
Business Law
495
- 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 12
- Commercial litigation 67
- Competition law 27
- Continuations 1
- Contracts 58
- Corporate finance 39
- Corporate governance 59
- 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 11
- Partnerships 28
- Practice 6
- Privacy 6
- Professional Responsibility 14
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 31
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 14
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 67
- Childrens Law
- Communications Law 12
- Constitutional Law
-
Creditors Remedies
73
- Acting for the creditor 24
- Acting for the debtor 13
- Assets subject to attachment 7
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 13
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 3
- Consumer Protection 1
- Equitable remedies 5
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 7
- Injunctions and preservation orders 4
- Postjudgment remedies 8
- Prejudgment garnishment 3
- Priorities 26
- Proceeding to judgment
- Promissory notes
- Repairers liens
- Searches 2
-
Criminal Law
255
- 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 42
- Practice 51
- Prison law
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Restorative justice
- Sentencing 41
- Trauma-informed practice
- Young offenders 16
- Cultural Competency
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism
-
Employment Law
481
- Benefits 18
- Client Relations
- Compensation 23
- Defamation 2
- Discrimination 151
- Duties and liabilities 72
- Employment contracts 85
- Employment standards 63
- Ethics 1
- General 63
- Mandatory Retirement 10
- Occupational health and safety 48
- Pensions 22
- Practice 12
- Privacy 65
- Professional Responsibility 2
- Sexual harassment 17
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 144
- Environmental Law 82
-
Family Law
691
- Access to justice for children
- Adoption 6
- ADR 70
- Advocacy
- Appeals 3
- Assessments and reports
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Child abduction
- Child development
- Child protection 102
- Child rights
- Child support 90
- Client Relations 67
- Collaborative law 15
- Common law spouses 16
- Conflict of laws 11
- Costs 7
- Custody and access 128
- Division of property 148
- Divorce 13
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 52
- Evidence 52
- Excluded property
- Family law agreements
- Family violence
- Financial disclosure
- General 64
- Guardianship 41
- Indigenous
- Indigenous child welfare
- Interim relief 29
- Marriage 4
- Marriage agreements 26
- Mediation 42
- Multiculturalism 12
- Naming children 1
- Orders 19
- Parental alienation
- Parenting responsibilities and contact
- Pensions 13
- Pleadings 78
- Pre-nuptial agreements 13
- Professional Responsibility 43
- Property Agreements 13
- Property Agreements 13
- References to Registrar
- Same-sex couples 6
- Self-represented Litigants
- Separation agreements 27
- Significant unfairness
- Spousal support 115
- Tax issues 26
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trusts
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 25
- Valuation
- Views of child
- FOI and Privacy 117
- Health Law 50
- Human Rights 414
- Immigration 225
- Indigenous Legal Orders
-
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 32
-
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
1757
- Aboriginal litigation 42
- Advocacy skills 19
- Affidavits
- Appeals 44
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 5
- Causes of action 95
- Chambers applications 107
- Class actions 91
- Client Relations 28
- Commercial litigation 94
- Conflict of laws 11
- Constitutional 26
- Costs 123
- Damages 60
- Defamation 23
- Discovery 169
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 118
- Ethics 69
- Evidence 342
- 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 26
- Local government
- Municipal 11
- Orders 22
- Pleadings 173
- Practice 150
- Pre-judgment remedies
- Pre-trial Procedures 100
- Professional Responsibility 58
- 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 195
- Unrepresented Litigants 46
- Vicarious liability 19
- Local Government
- Maritime Law 2
- Municipal Law 59
- Natural Resources 83
-
Personal Injury
294
- Client Relations 13
- Costs
- Damages 72
- Defences 32
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 16
- Experts
- 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
- Trauma-informed practice
- Underinsured motorist protection
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
384
- Billing 51
- Client development 31
- Client Relations 96
- Conduct and the Law Society 29
- Document management 90
- Employee hiring and retention 13
- Ethics 119
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 11
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 32
- Partnership issues 2
- Professional Responsibility 2
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
- Solicitor-client privilege 39
- Technology 42
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust accounting 16
- Wellness
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 169
-
Real Estate
629
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers 14
- Assessment 39
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 12
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title 12
- Client Relations 12
- Closing procedures 15
- 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
- Easement
- Environmental issues 22
- Ethics 17
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 10
- Foreclosure 69
- Government approvals 1
- Indian Act conveyancing 8
- Land Title Office 6
- Legal proceedings 90
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 4
- Mortgages 34
- 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 5
- BC Securities Commission 13
- Disclosure 35
- Due diligence 4
- General 56
- Hearings 8
- Investigations 4
- Judicial review 6
- Local Policy Statements 1
- National Registration Database 1
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 18
- Orders 9
- Practice 13
- Private placement 10
- Public offering 15
- Regulation 26
- Searches 4
- Stockbrokers 2
- Stock exchanges 11
- Stock options 7
- Takeover bids 17
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 139
- Strata Law
-
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
555
- Administration application 36
- Adult guardianship 42
- Charitable giving 9
- Client Relations 32
- Committeeship
- Curative provisions
- Devolution of assets 43
- Elder care 94
- Estate litigation 148
- Estate planning 189
- Ethics 21
- Executors and trustees 44
- Fiduciary 5
- General 50
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues
- Life estate
- Multijurisdictional estates 11
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney
- Practice
- Probate application 41
- Professional Responsibility 29
- Rectifying wills
- Representation agreement
- Tax issues 91
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 126
- Wills 72
- Wills challenges
- Workers Compensation 47
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PRACTICE AREA
-
Aboriginal Law
326
- Business and aboriginal law 25
- Child protection 6
- Criminal justice system 9
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 7
- General 38
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools
- Lands and title 151
- Litigation 60
- Practice 7
- Rights 116
- Self-government 58
- Tax issues 9
- Treaty Negotiations 54
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations 17
- Wills and estates 2
- Access to Justice
-
Administrative Law
290
- Abuse of discretion 10
- Appellate review 27
- Bias and impartiality
- Charter cases 30
- Choice of forum
- Discipline proceedings 47
- Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 16
- Judicial review 147
- Jurisdiction 26
- Natural justice 21
- Parties
- Practice 58
- Remedies 23
- Self-represented parties
- Standard of review
- Tribunals 92
- ADR 218
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 94
- Builders Liens 33
-
Business Law
495
- 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 12
- Commercial litigation 67
- Competition law 27
- Continuations 1
- Contracts 58
- Corporate finance 39
- Corporate governance 59
- 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 11
- Partnerships 28
- Practice 6
- Privacy 6
- Professional Responsibility 14
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 31
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 14
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 67
- Childrens Law
- Communications Law 12
- Constitutional Law
-
Creditors Remedies
73
- Acting for the creditor 24
- Acting for the debtor 13
- Assets subject to attachment 7
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 13
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 3
- Consumer Protection 1
- Equitable remedies 5
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 7
- Injunctions and preservation orders 4
- Postjudgment remedies 8
- Prejudgment garnishment 3
- Priorities 26
- Proceeding to judgment
- Promissory notes
- Repairers liens
- Searches 2
-
Criminal Law
255
- 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 42
- Practice 51
- Prison law
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Restorative justice
- Sentencing 41
- Trauma-informed practice
- Young offenders 16
- Cultural Competency
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism
-
Employment Law
481
- Benefits 18
- Client Relations
- Compensation 23
- Defamation 2
- Discrimination 151
- Duties and liabilities 72
- Employment contracts 85
- Employment standards 63
- Ethics 1
- General 63
- Mandatory Retirement 10
- Occupational health and safety 48
- Pensions 22
- Practice 12
- Privacy 65
- Professional Responsibility 2
- Sexual harassment 17
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 144
- Environmental Law 82
-
Family Law
691
- Access to justice for children
- Adoption 6
- ADR 70
- Advocacy
- Appeals 3
- Assessments and reports
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Child abduction
- Child development
- Child protection 102
- Child rights
- Child support 90
- Client Relations 67
- Collaborative law 15
- Common law spouses 16
- Conflict of laws 11
- Costs 7
- Custody and access 128
- Division of property 148
- Divorce 13
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 52
- Evidence 52
- Excluded property
- Family law agreements
- Family violence
- Financial disclosure
- General 64
- Guardianship 41
- Indigenous
- Indigenous child welfare
- Interim relief 29
- Marriage 4
- Marriage agreements 26
- Mediation 42
- Multiculturalism 12
- Naming children 1
- Orders 19
- Parental alienation
- Parenting responsibilities and contact
- Pensions 13
- Pleadings 78
- Pre-nuptial agreements 13
- Professional Responsibility 43
- Property Agreements 13
- Property Agreements 13
- References to Registrar
- Same-sex couples 6
- Self-represented Litigants
- Separation agreements 27
- Significant unfairness
- Spousal support 115
- Tax issues 26
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trusts
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 25
- Valuation
- Views of child
- FOI and Privacy 117
- Health Law 50
- Human Rights 414
- Immigration 225
- Indigenous Legal Orders
-
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 32
-
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
1757
- Aboriginal litigation 42
- Advocacy skills 19
- Affidavits
- Appeals 44
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 5
- Causes of action 95
- Chambers applications 107
- Class actions 91
- Client Relations 28
- Commercial litigation 94
- Conflict of laws 11
- Constitutional 26
- Costs 123
- Damages 60
- Defamation 23
- Discovery 169
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 118
- Ethics 69
- Evidence 342
- 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 26
- Local government
- Municipal 11
- Orders 22
- Pleadings 173
- Practice 150
- Pre-judgment remedies
- Pre-trial Procedures 100
- Professional Responsibility 58
- 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 195
- Unrepresented Litigants 46
- Vicarious liability 19
- Local Government
- Maritime Law 2
- Municipal Law 59
- Natural Resources 83
-
Personal Injury
294
- Client Relations 13
- Costs
- Damages 72
- Defences 32
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 16
- Experts
- 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
- Trauma-informed practice
- Underinsured motorist protection
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
384
- Billing 51
- Client development 31
- Client Relations 96
- Conduct and the Law Society 29
- Document management 90
- Employee hiring and retention 13
- Ethics 119
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 11
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 32
- Partnership issues 2
- Professional Responsibility 2
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
- Solicitor-client privilege 39
- Technology 42
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust accounting 16
- Wellness
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 169
-
Real Estate
629
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers 14
- Assessment 39
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 12
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title 12
- Client Relations 12
- Closing procedures 15
- 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
- Easement
- Environmental issues 22
- Ethics 17
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 10
- Foreclosure 69
- Government approvals 1
- Indian Act conveyancing 8
- Land Title Office 6
- Legal proceedings 90
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 4
- Mortgages 34
- 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 5
- BC Securities Commission 13
- Disclosure 35
- Due diligence 4
- General 56
- Hearings 8
- Investigations 4
- Judicial review 6
- Local Policy Statements 1
- National Registration Database 1
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 18
- Orders 9
- Practice 13
- Private placement 10
- Public offering 15
- Regulation 26
- Searches 4
- Stockbrokers 2
- Stock exchanges 11
- Stock options 7
- Takeover bids 17
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 139
- Strata Law
-
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
555
- Administration application 36
- Adult guardianship 42
- Charitable giving 9
- Client Relations 32
- Committeeship
- Curative provisions
- Devolution of assets 43
- Elder care 94
- Estate litigation 148
- Estate planning 189
- Ethics 21
- Executors and trustees 44
- Fiduciary 5
- General 50
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues
- Life estate
- Multijurisdictional estates 11
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney
- Practice
- Probate application 41
- Professional Responsibility 29
- Rectifying wills
- Representation agreement
- Tax issues 91
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 126
- Wills 72
- Wills challenges
- Workers Compensation 47
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