Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 368
  • Business and aboriginal law 49
  • Child protection 9
  • Criminal justice system 12
  • Dispute resolution 3
  • Family law 10
  • General 57
  • Indian Act 6
  • Indian residential schools
  • Lands and title 174
  • Litigation 70
  • Practice 14
  • Rights 140
  • Self-government 76
  • Tax issues 12
  • Treaty Negotiations 54
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 17
  • Wills and estates 3
• Access to Justice 8
  • Children 5
  • General 3
  • Indigenous child welfare 3
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
• Administrative Law 335
  • Abuse of discretion 10
  • Appellate review 33
  • Bias and impartiality 1
  • Charter cases 40
  • Choice of forum 1
  • Discipline proceedings 57
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 17
  • Judicial review 173
  • Jurisdiction 38
  • Natural justice 24
  • Parties 1
  • Practice 83
  • Remedies 31
  • Self-represented parties 2
  • Standard of review 27
  • Tribunals 107
• ADR 237
  • Arbitration 104
  • Collaborative law 13
  • Judicial review 8
  • Mediation 81
  • Mediation--family law 49
  • Practice 41
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 112
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 12
  • Appeals 3
  • Directors liability 14
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 9
  • General 82
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 25
  • Priorities 35
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 19
  • Receiving orders 8
  • Settlements and preferences 11
  • Trustees 15
• Builders Liens 35
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien
  • Enforcement 1
  • General 1
  • Holdbacks
  • Priority of liens
  • Solicitors liability
  • Subcontractors
• Business Law 507
  • Acquisitions and mergers 16
  • Amalgamations 3
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law 8
  • Buying and selling a business 35
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 1
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 66
  • Client Relations 5
  • Commercial litigation 68
  • Competition law 27
  • Continuations 1
  • Contracts 63
  • Corporate finance 36
  • Corporate governance 57
  • Corporate procedures 39
  • Directors 27
  • Dissolution and restoration 2
  • Ethics 5
  • Extra-provincial companies 4
  • Fiduciary 8
  • Franchising 6
  • Fraud 7
  • Incorporation and organization 44
  • International 10
  • Partnerships 32
  • Practice 9
  • Privacy 6
  • Professional Responsibility 8
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 32
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 11
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 76
• Childrens Law 3
  • Access to justice for children
  • Child development 1
  • Child protection 1
  • Child rights 1
  • Indigenous child welfare 2
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Communications Law 12
• Constitutional Law 2
  • Charter
  • Division of powers 2
  • Indigenous 1
• Creditors Remedies 88
  • Acting for the creditor 35
  • Acting for the debtor 24
  • Assets subject to attachment 7
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 22
  • 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 31
  • Proceeding to judgment
  • Promissory notes
  • Repairers liens
  • Searches 2
• Criminal Law 268
  • Anti-terrorism 1
  • Appeals 9
  • Charter of Rights 72
  • Client Relations 6
  • Defences 33
  • Domestic violence 1
  • Ethics 14
  • Evidence 96
  • Indigenous legal orders
  • Judicial interim release 10
  • Juries 4
  • Offences 47
  • Practice 58
  • Prison law
  • Professional Responsibility 15
  • Restorative justice 2
  • Sentencing 43
  • Trauma-informed practice 3
  • Young offenders 18
• Cultural Competency 4
  • Ethics 4
  • Professional responsibility 4
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Dispute Resolution 2
  • Arbitration 1
  • Choice of forum
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution 1
  • Mediation
  • Mediation—Family Law
  • Practice 1
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism
  • Ethics
  • Professional responsibility
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Employment Law 525
  • Benefits 18
  • Client Relations
  • Compensation 24
  • Defamation 3
  • Discrimination 155
  • Duties and liabilities 78
  • Employment contracts 97
  • Employment standards 69
  • Ethics 2
  • General 91
  • Mandatory Retirement 10
  • Occupational health and safety 52
  • Pensions 22
  • Practice 33
  • Privacy 70
  • Professional Responsibility 2
  • Sexual harassment 24
  • Tax issues 3
  • Wrongful dismissal 157
• Environmental Law 97
  • Climate change 7
  • Conservation covenants 3
  • Contaminated sites 20
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 24
  • Environmental protection 46
  • Forest practices 4
  • Indigenous 10
  • Insurance 4
  • Liability 31
  • Waste management 2
• Family Law 793
  • Access to justice for children
  • Adoption 6
  • ADR 70
  • Advocacy 2
  • Appeals 3
  • Assessments and reports 5
  • Assisted reproductive technologies 2
  • Child abduction 1
  • Child development
  • Child protection 105
  • Child rights 1
  • Child support 101
  • Client Relations 82
  • Collaborative law 15
  • Common law spouses 16
  • Conflict of laws 11
  • Costs 10
  • Custody and access 109
  • Division of property 166
  • Divorce 15
  • Dispute resolution 6
  • Ethics 57
  • Evidence 63
  • Excluded property 10
  • Family law agreements 8
  • Family violence 7
  • Financial disclosure 10
  • General 66
  • Guardianship 44
  • Indigenous
  • Indigenous child welfare 2
  • Interim relief 37
  • Marriage 7
  • Marriage agreements 28
  • Mediation 42
  • Multiculturalism 13
  • Naming children 1
  • Orders 24
  • Parental alienation 2
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact 26
  • Pensions 15
  • Pleadings 83
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 13
  • Professional Responsibility 60
  • Property Agreements 15
  • Property Agreements 13
  • References to Registrar 3
  • Same-sex couples 6
  • Self-represented Litigants 2
  • Separation agreements 28
  • Significant unfairness 8
  • Spousal support 127
  • Tax issues 34
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trusts 9
  • Unjust enrichment 1
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 22
  • Valuation 11
  • Views of child 4
• FOI and Privacy 118
• Health Law 52
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 458
  • BCHRA 86
  • Charter 153
  • CHRA 20
  • Client Relations 8
  • Discrimination 230
  • Ethics 4
  • Ethics 5
  • General 112
  • Indigenous human rights 10
  • Procedure 55
  • Professional Responsibility 9
  • Remedies 34
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
• Immigration 251
  • Admission 105
  • Appeals 58
  • Business immigrants 47
  • Citizenship 26
  • Client Relations 6
  • Detention 4
  • Ethics 6
  • Extradition 29
  • Labour market impact assessment 4
  • Permanent residency 27
  • Policy 58
  • Practice 54
  • Professional Responsibility 5
  • Provincial nominee program
  • Refugees 97
  • Tax issues 7
  • Visas 31
  • Work permits 5
• Indigenous Legal Orders 24
  • Child welfare 3
  • Dispute resolution 3
  • Education
  • Elders 2
  • Family 1
  • Health 1
  • Intellectual property
  • International law 4
  • Lands and titles 5
  • Language 2
  • Legal orders 11
  • Natural resources 5
  • Sovereignty 11
  • Stewardship 6
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
• Insurance 235
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 18
  • Agents 4
  • Bad faith
  • Breach
  • Claims 47
  • Contracts 42
  • Damages 10
  • Defences 37
  • Directors and officers insurance 7
  • Duties and liabilities 19
  • Exclusions 26
  • Fire insurance 3
  • Homeowners insurance 17
  • Lawyers liability insurance 6
  • Liability insurance generally 47
  • Life insurance 11
  • Litigation 77
  • Local government
  • Motor vehicle insurance 28
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 6
  • Property and loss of income insurance 4
  • Strata
  • Subrogation 23
• Intellectual Property 73
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 15
  • Computer software and Internet issues 10
  • Copyright 18
  • Disputes 4
  • Licensing 4
  • Litigation 4
  • Patents 12
  • Remedies 9
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 17
  • Trade secrets 22
• Labour Law 145
  • Arbitration 84
  • Certification and decertification 10
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 16
  • Industrial disputes 3
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 26
  • Picketing 6
  • Practice 12
  • Successorship 4
  • Unfair labour practices 11
  • Unions 38
• Legal Research and Writing 32
• Legal Support Staff 422
  • Business law for LSS 22
  • Civil litigation for LSS 85
  • Collections for LSS 7
  • Conveyancing for LSS 48
  • Corporate records for LSS 30
  • Estate administration for LSS 64
  • Family law for LSS 59
  • Foreclosures for LSS 15
  • Paralegals 6
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 71
  • PPSA for LSS 11
  • Research for LSS 10
  • Securities for LSS 40
• Litigation 1917
  • Aboriginal litigation 46
  • Advocacy skills 39
  • Affidavits 8
  • Appeals 49
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 14
  • Causes of action 108
  • Chambers applications 115
  • Class actions 96
  • Client Relations 37
  • Commercial litigation 102
  • Conflict of laws 11
  • Constitutional 28
  • Costs 129
  • Damages 67
  • Defamation 31
  • Discovery 172
  • Economic Loss 1
  • Estate litigation 120
  • Ethics 77
  • Evidence 363
  • Experts 182
  • Host Liability 3
  • Infants 5
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 2
  • Intellectual property litigation 17
  • Juries 26
  • Jurisdiction 55
  • Labour and employment litigation 58
  • Law Reform 26
  • Limitation of actions 8
  • Limitation Periods 25
  • Local government
  • Municipal 11
  • Orders 25
  • Pleadings 189
  • Practice 197
  • Pre-judgment remedies 2
  • Pre-trial Procedures 108
  • Professional Responsibility 68
  • Real estate litigation 101
  • Registrar practice 1
  • Releases
  • Remedies 29
  • Reviews 4
  • Securities litigation 36
  • Self-represented litigants 4
  • Settlement 84
  • Summary trials 36
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 3
  • Torts 115
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
  • Trials 204
  • Unrepresented Litigants 48
  • Vicarious liability 22
• Local Government 6
  • Building regulation
  • Bylaws 3
  • Contracts 1
  • Councils
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General 3
  • Land use planning 2
  • Licensing
  • Litigation
  • Taxation 1
  • Zoning 3
• Maritime Law 2
• Municipal Law 68
  • Actions by and against municipalities 4
  • Bylaws 11
  • Contracts 9
  • Development cost charges 1
  • Financial management 3
  • General 21
  • Land use planning 12
  • Licensing 2
  • Litigation 15
  • Municipal councils 10
  • Powers of municipality 26
  • Subdivision 11
  • Zoning 8
• Natural Resources 98
  • Aboriginal rights 32
  • Fisheries law 9
  • Forestry law 37
  • General 13
  • Indigenous legal orders 3
  • Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship 10
  • Mining law 42
  • Oil and gas law 8
  • Water 2
  • Wildlife 1
• Personal Injury 310
  • Client Relations 13
  • Costs 3
  • Damages 78
  • Defences 35
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 18
  • Experts 3
  • Family compensation claims 6
  • Host Liability 13
  • Injuries 61
  • Insurance 29
  • Mediation 16
  • Medical malpractice 7
  • Motor vehicle accidents 76
  • Occupiers liability 7
  • Part 7 benefits 32
  • Practice 100
  • Professional Responsibility 21
  • Structured settlements and judgments 12
  • Tax issues 7
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 415
  • Billing 51
  • Client development 31
  • Client Relations 105
  • Conduct and the Law Society 29
  • Document management 91
  • Employee hiring and retention 14
  • Ethics 130
  • In House Counsel 3
  • Insurance 11
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 32
  • Partnership issues 4
  • Professional Responsibility 7
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
  • Solicitor-client privilege 37
  • Technology 45
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trust accounting 16
  • Wellness 10
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 173
  • Client Relations 60
  • Ethics 154
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Real Estate 674
  • Affidavits 1
  • Agents and brokers 14
  • Assessment 40
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 11
  • Certificate of pending litigation
  • Charges on title 12
  • Client Relations 17
  • Closing procedures 16
  • Commercial leases 70
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general
  • Construction contracts 100
  • Construction litigation 59
  • Conveyancing practice 30
  • Development cost charges 15
  • Development--general 78
  • Development rights 12
  • Easement
  • Environmental issues 22
  • Ethics 19
  • Expropriation 2
  • Financing 15
  • Foreclosure 77
  • Government approvals 1
  • Indian Act conveyancing 10
  • Land Title Office 9
  • Legal proceedings 97
  • Licensees
  • Manufactured homes 4
  • Mortgages 40
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 5
  • Professional Responsibility 11
  • Purchase contract 28
  • Residential tenancies 13
  • Searches and investigations 8
  • Site development control 2
  • Statements of adjustments
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 40
  • Strata plans 9
  • Strata properties--general 74
  • Structure of the developer
  • Subdivision 26
  • Surveys 2
  • Tax issues 65
  • Title 10
  • Undertakings 3
  • Vancouver Charter 2
  • Zoning 4
• School Law 47
• Secured Transactions 45
  • Chattel mortgages 1
  • Conflict of laws 1
  • Debtor protection 7
  • Due diligence 5
  • Enforcement 5
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 5
  • General 13
  • Intellectual property 3
  • Loans 1
  • Mortgages 7
  • Perfection 1
  • Purchase money security interests 2
  • Receivers 2
  • Registration 9
  • Security agreements 10
  • Security interests 6
• Securities 161
  • Appeals 4
  • BC Securities Commission 13
  • Disclosure 34
  • Due diligence 4
  • General 66
  • Hearings 8
  • Investigations 5
  • Judicial review 6
  • Local Policy Statements 2
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
  • Offences 19
  • Orders 8
  • Practice 14
  • Private placement 9
  • Public offering 15
  • Regulation 27
  • Searches 4
  • Stockbrokers 2
  • Stock exchanges 11
  • Stock options 6
  • Takeover bids 18
  • Underwriters 1
• Solicitor 141
  • Conduct and the Law Society 41
  • Conflict of interest 33
  • Ethics 51
  • Solicitor-client privilege 40
• Strata Law 11
  • Insurance 2
  • Strata Corporations 6
  • Strata Plans 3
• Tax 219
  • Aboriginal tax issues 8
  • 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 49
  • Family law tax issues 20
  • Foreign income 3
  • General 15
  • 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 4
  • 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) 14
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 9
  • Reorganizations 5
  • Rollovers 4
  • Sales tax 18
  • Shares and shareholders 5
  • Tax litigation 3
  • Tax planning 6
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 69
• Technology Law 103
  • Intellectual property 17
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 1
  • Online contract formation 5
  • Practice 33
  • Privacy laws 25
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 14
  • Research 23
• Wills Estates and Trusts 671
  • Administration application 36
  • Adult guardianship 48
  • Charitable giving 11
  • Client Relations 58
  • Committeeship 8
  • Curative provisions 9
  • Devolution of assets 67
  • Elder care 104
  • Estate litigation 168
  • Estate planning 240
  • Ethics 29
  • Executors and trustees 60
  • Fiduciary 5
  • General 55
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 34
  • Life estate 1
  • Multijurisdictional estates 11
  • Passing of accounts 5
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 12
  • Practice 20
  • Probate application 47
  • Professional Responsibility 41
  • Rectifying wills 4
  • Representation agreement 10
  • Tax issues 122
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trust planning 151
  • Wills 93
  • Wills challenges 20
• Workers Compensation 53
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 5
  • Claims 23
  • General 17
  • Liability of employer 15
  • Procedure 17
  • Workers Compensation Board 6