Practice Areas
-
Aboriginal Law
186
- Business and aboriginal law 29
- Child protection 36
- Criminal justice system 24
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 27
- General 96
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools
- Lands and title 58
- Litigation 14
- Practice 52
- Rights 78
- Self-government 51
- Tax issues 9
- Treaty Negotiations 5
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations 5
- Wills and estates 1
- Access to Justice
-
Administrative Law
133
- Abuse of discretion 1
- Appellate review 21
- Bias and impartiality
- Charter cases 10
- Choice of forum
- Discipline proceedings 8
- Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 5
- Judicial review 77
- Jurisdiction 16
- Natural justice 11
- Parties
- Practice 65
- Remedies 25
- Self-represented parties
- Standard of review
- Tribunals 37
- ADR 106
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 28
- Builders Liens 11
-
Business Law
314
- Acquisitions and mergers 35
- Amalgamations 2
- Asset purchase agreement
- Banking law 4
- Buying and selling a business 59
- Cannabis
- Capital alterations 5
- Charities and non-profit organizations 21
- Client Relations 29
- Commercial litigation 27
- Competition law
- Continuations 2
- Contracts 38
- Corporate finance 46
- Corporate governance 42
- Corporate procedures 36
- Directors 12
- Dissolution and restoration 1
- Ethics 17
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary 4
- Franchising 8
- Fraud 9
- Incorporation and organization 14
- International 7
- Partnerships 10
- Practice 45
- Privacy 4
- Professional Responsibility 39
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 14
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 7
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 14
- Childrens Law
- Communications Law 10
- Constitutional Law
-
Creditors Remedies
81
- Acting for the creditor 41
- Acting for the debtor 32
- Assets subject to attachment 10
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 12
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
- Consumer Protection
- Equitable remedies 3
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 10
- Injunctions and preservation orders 4
- Postjudgment remedies 8
- Prejudgment garnishment 4
- Priorities 10
- Proceeding to judgment 4
- Promissory notes
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 2
-
Criminal Law
92
- Anti-terrorism
- Appeals 3
- Charter of Rights 22
- Client Relations 4
- Defences 7
- Domestic violence
- Ethics 6
- Evidence 37
- Indigenous legal orders
- Judicial interim release 3
- Juries
- Offences 13
- Practice 21
- Prison law
- Professional Responsibility 17
- Restorative justice
- Sentencing 16
- Trauma-informed practice
- Young offenders 5
- Cultural Competency
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism
-
Employment Law
177
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 13
- Defamation 3
- Discrimination 42
- Duties and liabilities 36
- Employment contracts 38
- Employment standards 25
- Ethics 4
- General 54
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 27
- Pensions 3
- Practice 35
- Privacy 26
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Sexual harassment 9
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 48
- Environmental Law 29
-
Family Law
321
- Access to justice for children
- Adoption 14
- ADR 29
- Advocacy
- Appeals 3
- Assessments and reports
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Child abduction
- Child development
- Child protection 82
- Child rights
- Child support 41
- Client Relations 65
- Collaborative law 5
- Common law spouses 1
- Conflict of laws 5
- Costs 6
- Custody and access 84
- Division of property 53
- Divorce 12
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 50
- Evidence 42
- Excluded property
- Family law agreements
- Family violence
- Financial disclosure
- General 77
- Guardianship 54
- Indigenous
- Indigenous child welfare
- Interim relief 11
- Marriage 3
- Marriage agreements 7
- Mediation 15
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children 1
- Orders 36
- Parental alienation
- Parenting responsibilities and contact
- Pensions 2
- Pleadings 67
- Pre-nuptial agreements 4
- Professional Responsibility 38
- Property Agreements 4
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 7
- Self-represented Litigants
- Separation agreements 17
- Significant unfairness
- Spousal support 51
- Tax issues 8
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trusts
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 40
- Valuation
- Views of child
- FOI and Privacy 24
- Health Law 19
- Human Rights 148
- Immigration 78
- Indigenous Legal Orders
-
Insurance
84
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 5
- Agents 2
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 25
- Contracts 27
- Damages 5
- Defences 8
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 7
- Exclusions 16
- Fire insurance 4
- Homeowners insurance 7
- Lawyers liability insurance 3
- Liability insurance generally 16
- Life insurance 7
- Litigation 25
- Local government
- Motor vehicle insurance 13
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 3
- Property and loss of income insurance 5
- Strata
- Subrogation 6
- Intellectual Property 9
- Labour Law 43
- Legal Research and Writing 18
- Legal Support Staff 206
-
Litigation
757
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 53
- Affidavits
- Appeals 24
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 47
- Chambers applications 41
- Class actions 28
- Client Relations 29
- Commercial litigation 29
- Conflict of laws 3
- Constitutional 4
- Costs 53
- Damages 19
- Defamation 12
- Discovery 66
- Economic Loss
- Estate litigation 32
- Ethics 68
- Evidence 196
- Experts 119
- Host Liability
- Infants 8
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
- Intellectual property litigation 1
- Juries 8
- Jurisdiction 27
- Labour and employment litigation 11
- Law Reform 18
- Limitation of actions 8
- Limitation Periods 14
- Local government
- Municipal 3
- Orders 9
- Pleadings 73
- Practice 167
- Pre-judgment remedies
- Pre-trial Procedures 40
- Professional Responsibility 100
- Real estate litigation 53
- Registrar practice
- Releases
- Remedies 11
- Reviews 4
- Securities litigation 2
- Self-represented litigants
- Settlement 23
- Summary trials 11
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts 26
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trials 67
- Unrepresented Litigants 25
- Vicarious liability 2
- Local Government
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 24
- Natural Resources 52
-
Personal Injury
142
- Client Relations 16
- Costs
- Damages 43
- Defences 16
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 13
- Experts
- Family compensation claims 3
- Host Liability 3
- Injuries 38
- Insurance 11
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice 4
- Motor vehicle accidents 30
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 14
- Practice 59
- Professional Responsibility 23
- Structured settlements and judgments 6
- Tax issues 2
- Trauma-informed practice
- Underinsured motorist protection
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
270
- Billing 15
- Client development 16
- Client Relations 102
- Conduct and the Law Society 21
- Document management 24
- Employee hiring and retention 18
- Ethics 140
- In House Counsel 1
- Insurance 5
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 24
- Partnership issues 12
- Professional Responsibility 8
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 3
- Solicitor-client privilege 18
- Technology 23
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust accounting 3
- Wellness
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 178
-
Real Estate
383
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers 7
- Assessment 19
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 21
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title 10
- Client Relations 22
- Closing procedures 23
- Commercial leases 26
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 18
- Construction litigation 17
- Conveyancing practice 50
- Development cost charges 2
- Development--general 34
- Development rights 8
- Easement
- Environmental issues 4
- Ethics 28
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 16
- Foreclosure 32
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 6
- Land Title Office 28
- Legal proceedings 64
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 3
- Mortgages 23
- Owner developers and strata corporations
- Professional Responsibility 29
- Purchase contract 26
- Residential tenancies 6
- Searches and investigations 9
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 3
- Statutory declarations
- Strata corporations 25
- Strata plans 13
- Strata properties--general 41
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 16
- Surveys 8
- Tax issues 60
- Title 22
- Undertakings 6
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 3
- School Law 2
- Secured Transactions 17
-
Securities
73
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 9
- Disclosure 19
- Due diligence 2
- General 28
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 6
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements 3
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
- Offences 8
- Orders 4
- Practice 26
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 8
- Regulation 14
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 8
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 6
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 30
- Strata Law
-
Tax
73
- Aboriginal tax issues 5
- Anti-avoidance rules 1
- Appeals 1
- Audits 2
- Buying and selling a business 1
- Capital gains 10
- Charities and non-profit organizations 1
- Collection practices and procedures
- Corporate 17
- Family law tax issues 4
- Foreign income
- General 1
- Goods and Services Tax 5
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax 9
- Intellectual property tax issues
- Lawyers and law firms 1
- Offshore taxation 1
- Partnership 3
- Pensions
- Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 1
- Practice 3
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 6
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 8
- Reorganizations 3
- Rollovers 4
- Sales tax 5
- Shares and shareholders 4
- Tax litigation 2
- Tax planning 7
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 29
- Technology Law 38
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
292
- Administration application 19
- Adult guardianship 27
- Charitable giving 3
- Client Relations 41
- Committeeship
- Curative provisions
- Devolution of assets 30
- Elder care 68
- Estate litigation 68
- Estate planning 124
- Ethics 19
- Executors and trustees 25
- Fiduciary 4
- General 18
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues
- Life estate
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney
- Practice
- Probate application 16
- Professional Responsibility 30
- Rectifying wills
- Representation agreement
- Tax issues 47
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 62
- Wills 72
- Wills challenges
- Workers Compensation 26
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PRACTICE AREA
-
Aboriginal Law
186
- Business and aboriginal law 29
- Child protection 36
- Criminal justice system 24
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 27
- General 96
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools
- Lands and title 58
- Litigation 14
- Practice 52
- Rights 78
- Self-government 51
- Tax issues 9
- Treaty Negotiations 5
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations 5
- Wills and estates 1
- Access to Justice
-
Administrative Law
133
- Abuse of discretion 1
- Appellate review 21
- Bias and impartiality
- Charter cases 10
- Choice of forum
- Discipline proceedings 8
- Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 5
- Judicial review 77
- Jurisdiction 16
- Natural justice 11
- Parties
- Practice 65
- Remedies 25
- Self-represented parties
- Standard of review
- Tribunals 37
- ADR 106
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 28
- Builders Liens 11
-
Business Law
314
- Acquisitions and mergers 35
- Amalgamations 2
- Asset purchase agreement
- Banking law 4
- Buying and selling a business 59
- Cannabis
- Capital alterations 5
- Charities and non-profit organizations 21
- Client Relations 29
- Commercial litigation 27
- Competition law
- Continuations 2
- Contracts 38
- Corporate finance 46
- Corporate governance 42
- Corporate procedures 36
- Directors 12
- Dissolution and restoration 1
- Ethics 17
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary 4
- Franchising 8
- Fraud 9
- Incorporation and organization 14
- International 7
- Partnerships 10
- Practice 45
- Privacy 4
- Professional Responsibility 39
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 14
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 7
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 14
- Childrens Law
- Communications Law 10
- Constitutional Law
-
Creditors Remedies
81
- Acting for the creditor 41
- Acting for the debtor 32
- Assets subject to attachment 10
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 12
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
- Consumer Protection
- Equitable remedies 3
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 10
- Injunctions and preservation orders 4
- Postjudgment remedies 8
- Prejudgment garnishment 4
- Priorities 10
- Proceeding to judgment 4
- Promissory notes
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 2
-
Criminal Law
92
- Anti-terrorism
- Appeals 3
- Charter of Rights 22
- Client Relations 4
- Defences 7
- Domestic violence
- Ethics 6
- Evidence 37
- Indigenous legal orders
- Judicial interim release 3
- Juries
- Offences 13
- Practice 21
- Prison law
- Professional Responsibility 17
- Restorative justice
- Sentencing 16
- Trauma-informed practice
- Young offenders 5
- Cultural Competency
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism
-
Employment Law
177
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 13
- Defamation 3
- Discrimination 42
- Duties and liabilities 36
- Employment contracts 38
- Employment standards 25
- Ethics 4
- General 54
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 27
- Pensions 3
- Practice 35
- Privacy 26
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Sexual harassment 9
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 48
- Environmental Law 29
-
Family Law
321
- Access to justice for children
- Adoption 14
- ADR 29
- Advocacy
- Appeals 3
- Assessments and reports
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Child abduction
- Child development
- Child protection 82
- Child rights
- Child support 41
- Client Relations 65
- Collaborative law 5
- Common law spouses 1
- Conflict of laws 5
- Costs 6
- Custody and access 84
- Division of property 53
- Divorce 12
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 50
- Evidence 42
- Excluded property
- Family law agreements
- Family violence
- Financial disclosure
- General 77
- Guardianship 54
- Indigenous
- Indigenous child welfare
- Interim relief 11
- Marriage 3
- Marriage agreements 7
- Mediation 15
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children 1
- Orders 36
- Parental alienation
- Parenting responsibilities and contact
- Pensions 2
- Pleadings 67
- Pre-nuptial agreements 4
- Professional Responsibility 38
- Property Agreements 4
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 7
- Self-represented Litigants
- Separation agreements 17
- Significant unfairness
- Spousal support 51
- Tax issues 8
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trusts
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 40
- Valuation
- Views of child
- FOI and Privacy 24
- Health Law 19
- Human Rights 148
- Immigration 78
- Indigenous Legal Orders
-
Insurance
84
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 5
- Agents 2
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 25
- Contracts 27
- Damages 5
- Defences 8
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 7
- Exclusions 16
- Fire insurance 4
- Homeowners insurance 7
- Lawyers liability insurance 3
- Liability insurance generally 16
- Life insurance 7
- Litigation 25
- Local government
- Motor vehicle insurance 13
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 3
- Property and loss of income insurance 5
- Strata
- Subrogation 6
- Intellectual Property 9
- Labour Law 43
- Legal Research and Writing 18
- Legal Support Staff 206
-
Litigation
757
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 53
- Affidavits
- Appeals 24
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 47
- Chambers applications 41
- Class actions 28
- Client Relations 29
- Commercial litigation 29
- Conflict of laws 3
- Constitutional 4
- Costs 53
- Damages 19
- Defamation 12
- Discovery 66
- Economic Loss
- Estate litigation 32
- Ethics 68
- Evidence 196
- Experts 119
- Host Liability
- Infants 8
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
- Intellectual property litigation 1
- Juries 8
- Jurisdiction 27
- Labour and employment litigation 11
- Law Reform 18
- Limitation of actions 8
- Limitation Periods 14
- Local government
- Municipal 3
- Orders 9
- Pleadings 73
- Practice 167
- Pre-judgment remedies
- Pre-trial Procedures 40
- Professional Responsibility 100
- Real estate litigation 53
- Registrar practice
- Releases
- Remedies 11
- Reviews 4
- Securities litigation 2
- Self-represented litigants
- Settlement 23
- Summary trials 11
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts 26
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trials 67
- Unrepresented Litigants 25
- Vicarious liability 2
- Local Government
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 24
- Natural Resources 52
-
Personal Injury
142
- Client Relations 16
- Costs
- Damages 43
- Defences 16
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 13
- Experts
- Family compensation claims 3
- Host Liability 3
- Injuries 38
- Insurance 11
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice 4
- Motor vehicle accidents 30
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 14
- Practice 59
- Professional Responsibility 23
- Structured settlements and judgments 6
- Tax issues 2
- Trauma-informed practice
- Underinsured motorist protection
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
270
- Billing 15
- Client development 16
- Client Relations 102
- Conduct and the Law Society 21
- Document management 24
- Employee hiring and retention 18
- Ethics 140
- In House Counsel 1
- Insurance 5
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 24
- Partnership issues 12
- Professional Responsibility 8
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 3
- Solicitor-client privilege 18
- Technology 23
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust accounting 3
- Wellness
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 178
-
Real Estate
383
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers 7
- Assessment 19
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 21
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title 10
- Client Relations 22
- Closing procedures 23
- Commercial leases 26
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 18
- Construction litigation 17
- Conveyancing practice 50
- Development cost charges 2
- Development--general 34
- Development rights 8
- Easement
- Environmental issues 4
- Ethics 28
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 16
- Foreclosure 32
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 6
- Land Title Office 28
- Legal proceedings 64
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 3
- Mortgages 23
- Owner developers and strata corporations
- Professional Responsibility 29
- Purchase contract 26
- Residential tenancies 6
- Searches and investigations 9
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 3
- Statutory declarations
- Strata corporations 25
- Strata plans 13
- Strata properties--general 41
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 16
- Surveys 8
- Tax issues 60
- Title 22
- Undertakings 6
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 3
- School Law 2
- Secured Transactions 17
-
Securities
73
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 9
- Disclosure 19
- Due diligence 2
- General 28
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 6
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements 3
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
- Offences 8
- Orders 4
- Practice 26
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 8
- Regulation 14
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 8
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 6
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 30
- Strata Law
-
Tax
73
- Aboriginal tax issues 5
- Anti-avoidance rules 1
- Appeals 1
- Audits 2
- Buying and selling a business 1
- Capital gains 10
- Charities and non-profit organizations 1
- Collection practices and procedures
- Corporate 17
- Family law tax issues 4
- Foreign income
- General 1
- Goods and Services Tax 5
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax 9
- Intellectual property tax issues
- Lawyers and law firms 1
- Offshore taxation 1
- Partnership 3
- Pensions
- Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 1
- Practice 3
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 6
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 8
- Reorganizations 3
- Rollovers 4
- Sales tax 5
- Shares and shareholders 4
- Tax litigation 2
- Tax planning 7
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 29
- Technology Law 38
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
292
- Administration application 19
- Adult guardianship 27
- Charitable giving 3
- Client Relations 41
- Committeeship
- Curative provisions
- Devolution of assets 30
- Elder care 68
- Estate litigation 68
- Estate planning 124
- Ethics 19
- Executors and trustees 25
- Fiduciary 4
- General 18
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues
- Life estate
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney
- Practice
- Probate application 16
- Professional Responsibility 30
- Rectifying wills
- Representation agreement
- Tax issues 47
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 62
- Wills 72
- Wills challenges
- Workers Compensation 26
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