Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 246
  • Business and aboriginal law 50
  • Child protection 50
  • Criminal justice system 49
  • Dispute resolution 3
  • Family law 35
  • General 113
  • Indian Act 11
  • Indian residential schools 6
  • Lands and title 68
  • Litigation 19
  • Practice 57
  • Rights 103
  • Self-government 66
  • Tax issues 7
  • Treaty Negotiations 8
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations
  • Wills and estates 2
• Access to Justice 52
  • Children 28
  • General 20
  • Indigenous child welfare 31
  • Trauma-informed practice 20
• Administrative Law 166
  • Abuse of discretion 3
  • Appellate review 24
  • Bias and impartiality 1
  • Charter cases 16
  • Choice of forum
  • Discipline proceedings 12
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 6
  • Judicial review 84
  • Jurisdiction 21
  • Natural justice 13
  • Parties 2
  • Practice 83
  • Remedies 25
  • Self-represented parties 2
  • Standard of review 16
  • Tribunals 46
• ADR 124
  • Arbitration 43
  • Collaborative law
  • Judicial review 9
  • Mediation 28
  • Mediation--family law 13
  • Practice 59
• Air Law
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 40
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 8
  • Appeals 2
  • Directors liability 6
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 4
  • General 30
  • Petitions 1
  • Practice 20
  • Priorities 14
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 11
  • Receiving orders 5
  • Settlements and preferences 9
  • Trustees 4
• Builders Liens 31
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien 2
  • Enforcement 4
  • General 19
  • Holdbacks 3
  • Priority of liens 3
  • Solicitors liability 1
  • Subcontractors 3
• Business Law 336
  • Acquisitions and mergers 39
  • Amalgamations 1
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law 1
  • Buying and selling a business 55
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 6
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 26
  • Client Relations 30
  • Commercial litigation 28
  • Competition law 1
  • Continuations 2
  • Contracts 47
  • Corporate finance 42
  • Corporate governance 49
  • Corporate procedures 35
  • Directors 16
  • Dissolution and restoration 1
  • Ethics 18
  • Extra-provincial companies
  • Fiduciary 4
  • Franchising 8
  • Fraud 8
  • Incorporation and organization 15
  • International 6
  • Partnerships 18
  • Practice 54
  • Privacy 4
  • Professional Responsibility 40
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 14
  • Shareholder agreements 1
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 6
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 20
• Childrens Law 23
  • Access to justice for children 10
  • Child development 4
  • Child protection 17
  • Child rights 10
  • Indigenous child welfare 16
  • Trauma-informed practice 11
• Communications Law
• Constitutional Law 3
  • Charter 1
  • Division of powers
  • Indigenous 2
• Creditors Remedies 101
  • Acting for the creditor 41
  • Acting for the debtor 33
  • Assets subject to attachment 13
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 15
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 12
  • Consumer Protection
  • Equitable remedies 5
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 12
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 3
  • Postjudgment remedies 9
  • Prejudgment garnishment 5
  • Priorities 11
  • Proceeding to judgment 4
  • Promissory notes
  • Repairers liens 2
  • Searches 3
• Criminal Law 147
  • Anti-terrorism 13
  • Appeals 16
  • Charter of Rights 36
  • Client Relations 33
  • Defences 22
  • Domestic violence 13
  • Ethics 17
  • Evidence 52
  • Indigenous legal orders 13
  • Judicial interim release 12
  • Juries 8
  • Offences 42
  • Practice 63
  • Prison law 8
  • Professional Responsibility 51
  • Restorative justice 20
  • Sentencing 37
  • Trauma-informed practice 21
  • Young offenders 24
• Cultural Competency 36
  • Ethics 18
  • Professional responsibility 19
  • Trauma-informed practice 11
• Dispute Resolution 19
  • Arbitration 11
  • Choice of forum 3
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution 5
  • Mediation 6
  • Mediation—Family Law 2
  • Practice 9
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 12
  • Ethics 8
  • Professional responsibility 9
  • Trauma-informed practice 11
• Employment Law 228
  • Benefits 9
  • Client Relations 10
  • Compensation 14
  • Defamation 3
  • Discrimination 49
  • Duties and liabilities 40
  • Employment contracts 51
  • Employment standards 31
  • Ethics 5
  • General 87
  • Mandatory Retirement
  • Occupational health and safety 35
  • Pensions 3
  • Practice 55
  • Privacy 28
  • Professional Responsibility 14
  • Sexual harassment 14
  • Tax issues 4
  • Wrongful dismissal 60
• Environmental Law 46
  • Climate change 10
  • Conservation covenants 1
  • Contaminated sites 12
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 10
  • Environmental protection 27
  • Forest practices 2
  • Indigenous 13
  • Insurance 1
  • Liability 8
  • Waste management
• Family Law 419
  • Access to justice for children 1
  • Adoption 14
  • ADR 32
  • Advocacy 6
  • Appeals 1
  • Assessments and reports 5
  • Assisted reproductive technologies 7
  • Child abduction
  • Child development 2
  • Child protection 96
  • Child rights 4
  • Child support 50
  • Client Relations 88
  • Collaborative law 5
  • Common law spouses
  • Conflict of laws 4
  • Costs 5
  • Custody and access 72
  • Division of property 68
  • Divorce 13
  • Dispute resolution 5
  • Ethics 52
  • Evidence 48
  • Excluded property 11
  • Family law agreements 8
  • Family violence 12
  • Financial disclosure 7
  • General 78
  • Guardianship 53
  • Indigenous 3
  • Indigenous child welfare 14
  • Interim relief 12
  • Marriage 6
  • Marriage agreements 8
  • Mediation 15
  • Multiculturalism 22
  • Naming children 1
  • Orders 48
  • Parental alienation 4
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact 29
  • Pensions 12
  • Pleadings 66
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 3
  • Professional Responsibility 47
  • Property Agreements 6
  • Property Agreements 1
  • References to Registrar 2
  • Same-sex couples 10
  • Self-represented Litigants 5
  • Separation agreements 17
  • Significant unfairness 8
  • Spousal support 60
  • Tax issues 15
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
  • Trusts 5
  • Unjust enrichment 1
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 36
  • Valuation 12
  • Views of child 6
• FOI and Privacy 26
• Health Law 14
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution
• Human Rights 193
  • BCHRA 33
  • Charter 40
  • CHRA 4
  • Client Relations 13
  • Discrimination 82
  • Ethics 12
  • Ethics 2
  • General 83
  • Indigenous human rights 9
  • Procedure 30
  • Professional Responsibility 13
  • Remedies 21
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
• Immigration 85
  • Admission 28
  • Appeals 34
  • Business immigrants 11
  • Citizenship 11
  • Client Relations 15
  • Detention 5
  • Ethics 6
  • Extradition 5
  • Labour market impact assessment 3
  • Permanent residency 16
  • Policy 15
  • Practice 61
  • Professional Responsibility 10
  • Provincial nominee program 1
  • Refugees 33
  • Tax issues
  • Visas 6
  • Work permits 5
• Indigenous Legal Orders 112
  • Child welfare 27
  • Dispute resolution 22
  • Education 8
  • Elders 12
  • Family 15
  • Health 14
  • Intellectual property 7
  • International law 15
  • Lands and titles 16
  • Language 8
  • Legal orders 43
  • Natural resources 17
  • Sovereignty 33
  • Stewardship 19
  • Trauma-informed practice 34
• Insurance 94
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
  • Agents 3
  • Bad faith
  • Breach
  • Claims 33
  • Contracts 32
  • Damages 7
  • Defences 8
  • Directors and officers insurance 2
  • Duties and liabilities 6
  • Exclusions 16
  • Fire insurance 4
  • Homeowners insurance 6
  • Lawyers liability insurance 3
  • Liability insurance generally 20
  • Life insurance 5
  • Litigation 28
  • Local government
  • Motor vehicle insurance 13
  • Municipal
  • Non Disclosure 2
  • Property and loss of income insurance 4
  • Strata 1
  • Subrogation 5
• Intellectual Property 19
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 2
  • Computer software and Internet issues 2
  • Copyright 4
  • Disputes 8
  • Licensing 4
  • Litigation 7
  • Patents 3
  • Remedies 1
  • Tax issues
  • Trade-marks 7
  • Trade secrets 3
• Labour Law 57
  • Arbitration 20
  • Certification and decertification 4
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 8
  • Industrial disputes 1
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 13
  • Picketing 1
  • Practice 18
  • Successorship 3
  • Unfair labour practices 1
  • Unions 22
• Legal Research and Writing 19
• Legal Support Staff 243
  • 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 35
  • Family law for LSS 45
  • Foreclosures for LSS
  • Paralegals 24
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 29
  • PPSA for LSS
  • Research for LSS 2
  • Securities for LSS
• Litigation 853
  • Aboriginal litigation 9
  • Advocacy skills 84
  • Affidavits 9
  • Appeals 32
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
  • Causes of action 52
  • Chambers applications 45
  • Class actions 36
  • Client Relations 32
  • Commercial litigation 29
  • Conflict of laws 2
  • Constitutional 5
  • Costs 48
  • Damages 28
  • Defamation 10
  • Discovery 58
  • Economic Loss 1
  • Estate litigation 34
  • Ethics 65
  • Evidence 199
  • Experts 123
  • Host Liability
  • Infants 6
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
  • Intellectual property litigation 9
  • Juries 7
  • Jurisdiction 27
  • Labour and employment litigation 10
  • Law Reform 19
  • Limitation of actions 8
  • Limitation Periods 15
  • Local government 1
  • Municipal 3
  • Orders 10
  • Pleadings 69
  • Practice 213
  • Pre-judgment remedies 3
  • Pre-trial Procedures 36
  • Professional Responsibility 113
  • Real estate litigation 64
  • Registrar practice 1
  • Releases
  • Remedies 12
  • Reviews 5
  • Securities litigation 2
  • Self-represented litigants 7
  • Settlement 22
  • Summary trials 12
  • Tax issues for litigators
  • Tax litigation
  • Torts 41
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Trials 66
  • Unrepresented Litigants 18
  • Vicarious liability 5
• Local Government 6
  • Building regulation
  • Bylaws 5
  • Contracts 1
  • Councils
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General
  • Land use planning
  • Licensing
  • Litigation 1
  • Taxation
  • Zoning 1
• Maritime Law 1
• Municipal Law 32
  • Actions by and against municipalities 2
  • Bylaws 8
  • Contracts 3
  • Development cost charges 1
  • Financial management
  • General 18
  • Land use planning 2
  • Licensing 1
  • Litigation
  • Municipal councils
  • Powers of municipality 4
  • Subdivision 20
  • Zoning 5
• 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 167
  • Client Relations 17
  • Costs 3
  • Damages 53
  • Defences 20
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 13
  • Experts 6
  • Family compensation claims 3
  • Host Liability 3
  • Injuries 46
  • Insurance 10
  • Mediation 3
  • Medical malpractice 2
  • Motor vehicle accidents 33
  • Occupiers liability 6
  • Part 7 benefits 15
  • Practice 71
  • Professional Responsibility 24
  • Structured settlements and judgments 7
  • Tax issues 2
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
• Practice Management 398
  • Billing 14
  • Client development 28
  • Client Relations 135
  • Conduct and the Law Society 26
  • Document management 23
  • Employee hiring and retention 26
  • Ethics 173
  • In House Counsel 3
  • Insurance 8
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 50
  • Partnership issues 18
  • Professional Responsibility 68
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
  • Solicitor-client privilege 23
  • Technology 51
  • Trauma-informed practice 15
  • Trust accounting 11
  • Wellness 38
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 184
  • Client Relations 100
  • Ethics 142
  • Trauma-informed practice 13
• Real Estate 511
  • Affidavits 1
  • Agents and brokers 11
  • Assessment 17
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 31
  • Certificate of pending litigation 2
  • Charges on title 17
  • Client Relations 46
  • Closing procedures 29
  • Commercial leases 42
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 26
  • Construction litigation 29
  • Conveyancing practice 81
  • Development cost charges 3
  • Development--general 43
  • Development rights 12
  • Easement 2
  • Environmental issues 6
  • Ethics 34
  • Expropriation 3
  • Financing 38
  • Foreclosure 44
  • Government approvals 4
  • Indian Act conveyancing 8
  • Land Title Office 31
  • Legal proceedings 77
  • Licensees 1
  • Manufactured homes 3
  • Mortgages 33
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 2
  • Professional Responsibility 51
  • Purchase contract 29
  • Residential tenancies 5
  • Searches and investigations 15
  • Site development control 4
  • Statements of adjustments 6
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 42
  • Strata plans 11
  • Strata properties--general 63
  • Structure of the developer 3
  • Subdivision 19
  • Surveys 4
  • Tax issues 65
  • Title 22
  • Undertakings 10
  • Vancouver Charter 2
  • Zoning 8
• School Law 8
• 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 85
  • Appeals 2
  • BC Securities Commission 13
  • Disclosure 28
  • Due diligence 2
  • General 46
  • Hearings 4
  • Investigations 6
  • Judicial review 2
  • Local Policy Statements 4
  • National Registration Database
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
  • Offences 6
  • Orders 5
  • Practice 28
  • Private placement 9
  • Public offering 8
  • Regulation 17
  • Searches
  • Stockbrokers
  • Stock exchanges 11
  • Stock options
  • Takeover bids 6
  • Underwriters 1
• Solicitor 25
  • Conduct and the Law Society 7
  • Conflict of interest 6
  • Ethics 15
  • Solicitor-client privilege 7
• Strata Law 38
  • Insurance 2
  • Strata Corporations 21
  • Strata Plans 7
• Tax 98
  • Aboriginal tax issues 5
  • Anti-avoidance rules 3
  • Appeals 1
  • Audits 5
  • 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 19
  • Goods and Services Tax 8
  • Income splitting and attribution rules
  • Income tax 11
  • Intellectual property tax issues
  • Lawyers and law firms 1
  • 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 12
  • Reorganizations 3
  • Rollovers 4
  • Sales tax 7
  • Shares and shareholders 6
  • Tax litigation 4
  • Tax planning 11
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 31
• Technology Law 56
  • Intellectual property 8
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 9
  • Online contract formation 1
  • Practice 19
  • Privacy laws 17
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 3
  • Research 10
• Wills Estates and Trusts 414
  • Administration application 21
  • Adult guardianship 34
  • Charitable giving 6
  • Client Relations 72
  • Committeeship 4
  • Curative provisions 10
  • Devolution of assets 51
  • Elder care 88
  • Estate litigation 86
  • Estate planning 180
  • Ethics 32
  • Executors and trustees 46
  • Fiduciary 4
  • General 29
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 40
  • Life estate 1
  • Multijurisdictional estates 6
  • Passing of accounts 5
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 12
  • Practice 24
  • Probate application 26
  • Professional Responsibility 44
  • Rectifying wills 4
  • Representation agreement 8
  • Tax issues 81
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Trust planning 97
  • Wills 113
  • Wills challenges 13
• Workers Compensation 40
  • Assessments 2
  • Benefits 4
  • Claims 30
  • General 28
  • Liability of employer 22
  • Procedure 13
  • Workers Compensation Board 4