Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 294
  • Business and aboriginal law 55
  • Child protection 55
  • Criminal justice system 68
  • Dispute resolution 3
  • Family law 39
  • General 124
  • Indian Act 13
  • Indian residential schools 8
  • Lands and title 82
  • Litigation 23
  • Practice 61
  • Rights 131
  • Self-government 75
  • Tax issues 8
  • Treaty Negotiations 8
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations
  • Wills and estates 2
• Access to Justice 76
  • Children 32
  • General 21
  • Indigenous child welfare 36
  • Trauma-informed practice 41
• Administrative Law 192
  • Abuse of discretion 4
  • Appellate review 27
  • Bias and impartiality 1
  • Charter cases 18
  • Choice of forum 1
  • Discipline proceedings 18
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 6
  • Judicial review 97
  • Jurisdiction 28
  • Natural justice 14
  • Parties 3
  • Practice 95
  • Remedies 31
  • Self-represented parties 2
  • Standard of review 22
  • Tribunals 58
• ADR 132
  • Arbitration 45
  • Collaborative law
  • Judicial review 9
  • Mediation 31
  • Mediation--family law 13
  • Practice 65
• Air Law
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 60
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 11
  • Appeals 2
  • Directors liability 8
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 4
  • General 46
  • Petitions 1
  • Practice 29
  • Priorities 16
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 13
  • Receiving orders 6
  • Settlements and preferences 10
  • Trustees 9
• Builders Liens 35
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien 2
  • Enforcement 5
  • General 21
  • Holdbacks 3
  • Priority of liens 3
  • Solicitors liability 1
  • Subcontractors 3
• Business Law 366
  • Acquisitions and mergers 48
  • Amalgamations 1
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law 3
  • Buying and selling a business 56
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 6
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 26
  • Client Relations 32
  • Commercial litigation 28
  • Competition law 1
  • Continuations 2
  • Contracts 58
  • Corporate finance 43
  • Corporate governance 50
  • Corporate procedures 35
  • Directors 16
  • Dissolution and restoration 2
  • Ethics 20
  • Extra-provincial companies 1
  • Fiduciary 4
  • Franchising 8
  • Fraud 9
  • Incorporation and organization 15
  • International 6
  • Partnerships 21
  • Practice 57
  • Privacy 4
  • Professional Responsibility 41
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 17
  • Shareholder agreements 2
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 7
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 23
• Childrens Law 29
  • Access to justice for children 14
  • Child development 4
  • Child protection 17
  • Child rights 15
  • Indigenous child welfare 20
  • Trauma-informed practice 15
• Communications Law
• Constitutional Law 5
  • Charter 2
  • Division of powers 1
  • Indigenous 2
• Creditors Remedies 125
  • Acting for the creditor 61
  • Acting for the debtor 53
  • Assets subject to attachment 14
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 34
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 13
  • Consumer Protection
  • Equitable remedies 9
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 14
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 6
  • Postjudgment remedies 11
  • Prejudgment garnishment 10
  • Priorities 24
  • Proceeding to judgment 7
  • Promissory notes
  • Repairers liens 2
  • Searches 3
• Criminal Law 186
  • Anti-terrorism 13
  • Appeals 16
  • Charter of Rights 46
  • Client Relations 53
  • Defences 46
  • Domestic violence 14
  • Ethics 19
  • Evidence 54
  • Indigenous legal orders 31
  • Judicial interim release 12
  • Juries 8
  • Offences 51
  • Practice 90
  • Prison law 8
  • Professional Responsibility 53
  • Restorative justice 38
  • Sentencing 65
  • Trauma-informed practice 39
  • Young offenders 24
• Cultural Competency 38
  • Ethics 20
  • Professional responsibility 20
  • Trauma-informed practice 11
• Dispute Resolution 20
  • Arbitration 12
  • Choice of forum 3
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution 5
  • Mediation 7
  • Mediation—Family Law 2
  • Practice 9
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 13
  • Ethics 8
  • Professional responsibility 9
  • Trauma-informed practice 11
• Employment Law 248
  • Benefits 9
  • Client Relations 10
  • Compensation 15
  • Defamation 3
  • Discrimination 51
  • Duties and liabilities 41
  • Employment contracts 57
  • Employment standards 33
  • Ethics 6
  • General 101
  • Mandatory Retirement
  • Occupational health and safety 39
  • Pensions 3
  • Practice 66
  • Privacy 30
  • Professional Responsibility 14
  • Sexual harassment 14
  • Tax issues 4
  • Wrongful dismissal 62
• Environmental Law 57
  • Climate change 16
  • Conservation covenants 1
  • Contaminated sites 12
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 12
  • Environmental protection 34
  • Forest practices 2
  • Indigenous 15
  • Insurance 1
  • Liability 13
  • Waste management
• Family Law 454
  • Access to justice for children 5
  • Adoption 14
  • ADR 32
  • Advocacy 6
  • Appeals 1
  • Assessments and reports 6
  • Assisted reproductive technologies 7
  • Child abduction
  • Child development 2
  • Child protection 97
  • Child rights 8
  • Child support 53
  • Client Relations 91
  • Collaborative law 5
  • Common law spouses
  • Conflict of laws 4
  • Costs 5
  • Custody and access 74
  • Division of property 80
  • Divorce 23
  • Dispute resolution 6
  • Ethics 54
  • Evidence 48
  • Excluded property 12
  • Family law agreements 10
  • Family violence 12
  • Financial disclosure 15
  • General 81
  • Guardianship 55
  • Indigenous 3
  • Indigenous child welfare 16
  • Interim relief 12
  • Marriage 6
  • Marriage agreements 8
  • Mediation 15
  • Multiculturalism 22
  • Naming children 1
  • Orders 51
  • Parental alienation 4
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact 31
  • Pensions 12
  • Pleadings 67
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 3
  • Professional Responsibility 51
  • Property Agreements 6
  • Property Agreements 1
  • References to Registrar 3
  • Same-sex couples 10
  • Self-represented Litigants 5
  • Separation agreements 17
  • Significant unfairness 9
  • Spousal support 63
  • Tax issues 17
  • Trauma-informed practice 7
  • Trusts 8
  • Unjust enrichment 1
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 36
  • Valuation 14
  • Views of child 8
• FOI and Privacy 26
• Health Law 14
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution
• Human Rights 211
  • BCHRA 42
  • Charter 41
  • CHRA 6
  • Client Relations 13
  • Discrimination 93
  • Ethics 12
  • Ethics 2
  • General 96
  • Indigenous human rights 14
  • Procedure 34
  • Professional Responsibility 15
  • Remedies 24
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
• Immigration 96
  • Admission 31
  • Appeals 36
  • Business immigrants 12
  • Citizenship 11
  • Client Relations 17
  • Detention 6
  • Ethics 9
  • Extradition 5
  • Labour market impact assessment 6
  • Permanent residency 16
  • Policy 16
  • Practice 69
  • Professional Responsibility 11
  • Provincial nominee program 2
  • Refugees 36
  • Tax issues
  • Visas 6
  • Work permits 9
• Indigenous Legal Orders 157
  • Child welfare 29
  • Dispute resolution 45
  • Education 9
  • Elders 17
  • Family 17
  • Health 15
  • Intellectual property 8
  • International law 18
  • Lands and titles 29
  • Language 13
  • Legal orders 52
  • Natural resources 21
  • Sovereignty 36
  • Stewardship 22
  • Trauma-informed practice 35
• Insurance 109
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
  • Agents 4
  • Bad faith
  • Breach 1
  • Claims 36
  • Contracts 41
  • Damages 7
  • Defences 10
  • Directors and officers insurance 2
  • Duties and liabilities 10
  • Exclusions 18
  • Fire insurance 4
  • Homeowners insurance 6
  • Lawyers liability insurance 3
  • Liability insurance generally 20
  • Life insurance 5
  • Litigation 38
  • Local government
  • Motor vehicle insurance 13
  • Municipal
  • Non Disclosure 4
  • Property and loss of income insurance 4
  • Strata 1
  • Subrogation 6
• Intellectual Property 23
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 2
  • Computer software and Internet issues 2
  • Copyright 6
  • Disputes 9
  • Licensing 4
  • Litigation 7
  • Patents 3
  • Remedies 1
  • Tax issues
  • Trade-marks 7
  • Trade secrets 3
• Labour Law 66
  • Arbitration 23
  • Certification and decertification 5
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 8
  • Industrial disputes 3
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 15
  • Picketing 1
  • Practice 24
  • Successorship 3
  • Unfair labour practices 1
  • Unions 24
• Legal Research and Writing 20
• Legal Support Staff 256
  • Business law for LSS 14
  • Civil litigation for LSS 42
  • Collections for LSS
  • Conveyancing for LSS 42
  • Corporate records for LSS 1
  • Estate administration for LSS 43
  • Family law for LSS 51
  • Foreclosures for LSS
  • Paralegals 33
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 27
  • PPSA for LSS
  • Research for LSS 2
  • Securities for LSS
• Litigation 982
  • Aboriginal litigation 10
  • Advocacy skills 102
  • Affidavits 15
  • Appeals 33
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 25
  • Causes of action 57
  • Chambers applications 45
  • Class actions 37
  • Client Relations 41
  • Commercial litigation 43
  • Conflict of laws 2
  • Constitutional 5
  • Costs 55
  • Damages 32
  • Defamation 10
  • Discovery 67
  • Economic Loss 1
  • Estate litigation 40
  • Ethics 81
  • Evidence 219
  • Experts 128
  • Host Liability
  • Infants 6
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
  • Intellectual property litigation 9
  • Juries 7
  • Jurisdiction 28
  • Labour and employment litigation 10
  • Law Reform 19
  • Limitation of actions 8
  • Limitation Periods 15
  • Local government 1
  • Municipal 10
  • Orders 10
  • Pleadings 71
  • Practice 256
  • Pre-judgment remedies 4
  • Pre-trial Procedures 41
  • Professional Responsibility 135
  • Real estate litigation 78
  • Registrar practice 3
  • Releases
  • Remedies 16
  • Reviews 5
  • Securities litigation 11
  • Self-represented litigants 8
  • Settlement 22
  • Summary trials 15
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation
  • Torts 48
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
  • Trials 69
  • Unrepresented Litigants 18
  • Vicarious liability 6
• Local Government 14
  • Building regulation
  • Bylaws 6
  • Contracts 1
  • Councils
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General 7
  • Land use planning 2
  • Licensing
  • Litigation 3
  • Taxation 1
  • Zoning 5
• Maritime Law 1
• Municipal Law 47
  • Actions by and against municipalities 2
  • Bylaws 9
  • Contracts 10
  • Development cost charges 1
  • Financial management
  • General 25
  • Land use planning 2
  • Licensing 1
  • Litigation 9
  • Municipal councils
  • Powers of municipality 4
  • Subdivision 20
  • Zoning 9
• Natural Resources 59
  • Aboriginal rights 27
  • Fisheries law 10
  • Forestry law 25
  • General 19
  • Indigenous legal orders 7
  • Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship 13
  • Mining law 22
  • Oil and gas law 2
  • Water 5
  • Wildlife 5
• Personal Injury 172
  • Client Relations 16
  • Costs 3
  • Damages 57
  • Defences 21
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 14
  • Experts 8
  • Family compensation claims 3
  • Host Liability 3
  • Injuries 46
  • Insurance 10
  • Mediation 3
  • Medical malpractice 2
  • Motor vehicle accidents 34
  • Occupiers liability 7
  • Part 7 benefits 15
  • Practice 75
  • Professional Responsibility 25
  • Structured settlements and judgments 6
  • Tax issues 2
  • Trauma-informed practice 5
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
• Practice Management 436
  • Billing 16
  • Client development 31
  • Client Relations 138
  • Conduct and the Law Society 31
  • Document management 26
  • Employee hiring and retention 32
  • Ethics 181
  • In House Counsel 4
  • Insurance 8
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 56
  • Partnership issues 23
  • Professional Responsibility 77
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
  • Solicitor-client privilege 23
  • Technology 57
  • Trauma-informed practice 15
  • Trust accounting 12
  • Wellness 46
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 193
  • Client Relations 103
  • Ethics 146
  • Trauma-informed practice 13
• Real Estate 576
  • Affidavits 4
  • Agents and brokers 17
  • Assessment 23
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 32
  • Certificate of pending litigation 2
  • Charges on title 21
  • Client Relations 58
  • Closing procedures 32
  • Commercial leases 43
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 43
  • Construction litigation 45
  • Conveyancing practice 100
  • Development cost charges 4
  • Development--general 48
  • Development rights 12
  • Easement 3
  • Environmental issues 7
  • Ethics 42
  • Expropriation 4
  • Financing 44
  • Foreclosure 52
  • Government approvals 4
  • Indian Act conveyancing 18
  • Land Title Office 43
  • Legal proceedings 80
  • Licensees 1
  • Manufactured homes 3
  • Mortgages 44
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 2
  • Professional Responsibility 70
  • Purchase contract 35
  • Residential tenancies 7
  • Searches and investigations 20
  • Site development control 4
  • Statements of adjustments 7
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 42
  • Strata plans 11
  • Strata properties--general 66
  • Structure of the developer 4
  • Subdivision 19
  • Surveys 4
  • Tax issues 76
  • Title 26
  • Undertakings 12
  • Vancouver Charter 2
  • Zoning 8
• School Law 9
• Secured Transactions 24
  • Chattel mortgages
  • Conflict of laws 3
  • Debtor protection 5
  • Due diligence 3
  • Enforcement 2
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 2
  • General 18
  • Intellectual property 2
  • Loans
  • Mortgages 2
  • Perfection 2
  • Purchase money security interests 1
  • Receivers
  • Registration 5
  • Security agreements 13
  • Security interests 10
• Securities 98
  • Appeals 2
  • BC Securities Commission 17
  • Disclosure 33
  • Due diligence 2
  • General 53
  • Hearings 4
  • Investigations 9
  • Judicial review 2
  • Local Policy Statements 6
  • National Registration Database
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
  • Offences 8
  • Orders 5
  • Practice 35
  • Private placement 9
  • Public offering 9
  • Regulation 22
  • Searches
  • Stockbrokers 1
  • Stock exchanges 12
  • Stock options
  • Takeover bids 7
  • Underwriters 1
• Solicitor 27
  • Conduct and the Law Society 7
  • Conflict of interest 7
  • Ethics 16
  • Solicitor-client privilege 7
• Strata Law 42
  • Insurance 2
  • Strata Corporations 22
  • Strata Plans 7
• Tax 106
  • Aboriginal tax issues 6
  • Anti-avoidance rules 3
  • Appeals 2
  • Audits 6
  • Buying and selling a business 2
  • Capital gains 11
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 3
  • Collection practices and procedures
  • Corporate 23
  • Family law tax issues 4
  • Foreign income
  • General 20
  • Goods and Services Tax 11
  • Income splitting and attribution rules
  • Income tax 13
  • Intellectual property tax issues
  • Lawyers and law firms 3
  • Offshore taxation 2
  • Partnership 4
  • Pensions
  • Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 1
  • Practice 5
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 10
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 15
  • Reorganizations 3
  • Rollovers 4
  • Sales tax 9
  • Shares and shareholders 6
  • Tax litigation 4
  • Tax planning 11
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 31
• Technology Law 62
  • Intellectual property 12
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 9
  • Online contract formation 1
  • Practice 21
  • Privacy laws 17
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 3
  • Research 10
• Wills Estates and Trusts 461
  • Administration application 22
  • Adult guardianship 35
  • Charitable giving 6
  • Client Relations 77
  • Committeeship 7
  • Curative provisions 14
  • Devolution of assets 56
  • Elder care 90
  • Estate litigation 101
  • Estate planning 192
  • Ethics 37
  • Executors and trustees 54
  • Fiduciary 4
  • General 30
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 48
  • Life estate 1
  • Multijurisdictional estates 7
  • Passing of accounts 7
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 16
  • Practice 39
  • Probate application 27
  • Professional Responsibility 50
  • Rectifying wills 4
  • Representation agreement 11
  • Tax issues 89
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Trust planning 107
  • Wills 130
  • Wills challenges 23
• Workers Compensation 44
  • Assessments 2
  • Benefits 4
  • Claims 31
  • General 29
  • Liability of employer 24
  • Procedure 15
  • Workers Compensation Board 5