Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 170
  • Business and aboriginal law 26
  • Child protection 39
  • Criminal justice system 33
  • Dispute resolution
  • Family law 25
  • General 79
  • Indian Act
  • Indian residential schools 1
  • Lands and title 50
  • Litigation 11
  • Practice 47
  • Rights 73
  • Self-government 42
  • Tax issues 6
  • Treaty Negotiations 4
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations
  • Wills and estates 1
• Access to Justice 29
  • Children 19
  • General 16
  • Indigenous child welfare 14
  • Trauma-informed practice 16
• Administrative Law 135
  • Abuse of discretion 1
  • Appellate review 19
  • Bias and impartiality
  • Charter cases 12
  • Choice of forum
  • Discipline proceedings 12
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 5
  • Judicial review 75
  • Jurisdiction 14
  • Natural justice 9
  • Parties
  • Practice 69
  • Remedies 23
  • Self-represented parties 1
  • Standard of review 10
  • Tribunals 34
• ADR 97
  • Arbitration 36
  • Collaborative law 3
  • Judicial review 7
  • Mediation 23
  • Mediation--family law 12
  • Practice 39
• Air Law
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 28
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 8
  • Appeals 2
  • Directors liability 5
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 4
  • General 19
  • Petitions 1
  • Practice 10
  • Priorities 13
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 10
  • Receiving orders 4
  • Settlements and preferences 8
  • Trustees 4
• Builders Liens 20
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien 1
  • Enforcement 1
  • General 9
  • Holdbacks
  • Priority of liens 1
  • Solicitors liability
  • Subcontractors
• Business Law 285
  • Acquisitions and mergers 38
  • Amalgamations 1
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law
  • Buying and selling a business 55
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 5
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 21
  • Client Relations 28
  • Commercial litigation 28
  • Competition law 1
  • Continuations 2
  • Contracts 36
  • Corporate finance 40
  • Corporate governance 41
  • Corporate procedures 35
  • Directors 11
  • Dissolution and restoration 1
  • Ethics 16
  • Extra-provincial companies
  • Fiduciary 4
  • Franchising 8
  • Fraud 8
  • Incorporation and organization 14
  • International 6
  • Partnerships 10
  • Practice 42
  • Privacy 3
  • Professional Responsibility 37
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 10
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 5
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 14
• Childrens Law 9
  • Access to justice for children 4
  • Child development 3
  • Child protection 8
  • Child rights 3
  • Indigenous child welfare 9
  • Trauma-informed practice 7
• Communications Law
• Constitutional Law
  • Charter
  • Division of powers
  • Indigenous
• Creditors Remedies 73
  • Acting for the creditor 37
  • Acting for the debtor 28
  • Assets subject to attachment 10
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 13
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
  • Consumer Protection
  • Equitable remedies 3
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 10
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 2
  • Postjudgment remedies 7
  • Prejudgment garnishment 3
  • Priorities 9
  • Proceeding to judgment 3
  • Promissory notes
  • Repairers liens 1
  • Searches 2
• Criminal Law 106
  • Anti-terrorism 13
  • Appeals 10
  • Charter of Rights 28
  • Client Relations 16
  • Defences 13
  • Domestic violence 8
  • Ethics 14
  • Evidence 42
  • Indigenous legal orders 10
  • Judicial interim release 11
  • Juries 8
  • Offences 35
  • Practice 28
  • Prison law 8
  • Professional Responsibility 39
  • Restorative justice 8
  • Sentencing 25
  • Trauma-informed practice 9
  • Young offenders 13
• Cultural Competency 20
  • Ethics 18
  • Professional responsibility 18
  • Trauma-informed practice 8
• Dispute Resolution
  • Arbitration
  • Choice of forum
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution
  • Mediation
  • Mediation—Family Law
  • Practice
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 8
  • Ethics 8
  • Professional responsibility 8
  • Trauma-informed practice 8
• Employment Law 183
  • Benefits 8
  • Client Relations 8
  • Compensation 13
  • Defamation 2
  • Discrimination 45
  • Duties and liabilities 37
  • Employment contracts 39
  • Employment standards 26
  • Ethics 4
  • General 56
  • Mandatory Retirement
  • Occupational health and safety 27
  • Pensions 3
  • Practice 38
  • Privacy 25
  • Professional Responsibility 12
  • Sexual harassment 9
  • Tax issues 4
  • Wrongful dismissal 48
• Environmental Law 30
  • Climate change
  • Conservation covenants
  • Contaminated sites 11
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 9
  • Environmental protection 13
  • Forest practices 2
  • Indigenous 8
  • Insurance 1
  • Liability 6
  • Waste management
• Family Law 312
  • Access to justice for children 1
  • Adoption 14
  • ADR 30
  • Advocacy 1
  • Appeals 1
  • Assessments and reports 3
  • Assisted reproductive technologies
  • Child abduction
  • Child development 1
  • Child protection 87
  • Child rights 2
  • Child support 43
  • Client Relations 66
  • Collaborative law 5
  • Common law spouses
  • Conflict of laws 4
  • Costs 4
  • Custody and access 65
  • Division of property 54
  • Divorce 12
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 49
  • Evidence 40
  • Excluded property 3
  • Family law agreements
  • Family violence 3
  • Financial disclosure 1
  • General 72
  • Guardianship 53
  • Indigenous 2
  • Indigenous child welfare 3
  • Interim relief 9
  • Marriage 3
  • Marriage agreements 6
  • Mediation 14
  • Multiculturalism 22
  • Naming children 1
  • Orders 36
  • Parental alienation 1
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact 21
  • Pensions 3
  • Pleadings 53
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 3
  • Professional Responsibility 35
  • Property Agreements 4
  • Property Agreements
  • References to Registrar 1
  • Same-sex couples 7
  • Self-represented Litigants 1
  • Separation agreements 15
  • Significant unfairness 3
  • Spousal support 51
  • Tax issues 9
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
  • Trusts 2
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 35
  • Valuation 2
  • Views of child 2
• FOI and Privacy 23
• Health Law 12
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution
• Human Rights 155
  • BCHRA 29
  • Charter 36
  • CHRA 3
  • Client Relations 12
  • Discrimination 71
  • Ethics 12
  • Ethics 1
  • General 56
  • Indigenous human rights
  • Procedure 20
  • Professional Responsibility 12
  • Remedies 20
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Immigration 71
  • Admission 25
  • Appeals 27
  • Business immigrants 10
  • Citizenship 11
  • Client Relations 14
  • Detention 2
  • Ethics 6
  • Extradition 5
  • Labour market impact assessment 1
  • Permanent residency 12
  • Policy 15
  • Practice 52
  • Professional Responsibility 9
  • Provincial nominee program 1
  • Refugees 29
  • Tax issues
  • Visas 4
  • Work permits 1
• Indigenous Legal Orders 51
  • Child welfare 22
  • Dispute resolution 8
  • Education 7
  • Elders 7
  • Family 9
  • Health 8
  • Intellectual property 7
  • International law 8
  • Lands and titles 10
  • Language 7
  • Legal orders 13
  • Natural resources 13
  • Sovereignty 15
  • Stewardship 13
  • Trauma-informed practice 15
• Insurance 76
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
  • Agents 2
  • Bad faith
  • Breach
  • Claims 24
  • Contracts 25
  • Damages 5
  • Defences 7
  • Directors and officers insurance 2
  • Duties and liabilities 6
  • Exclusions 13
  • Fire insurance 4
  • Homeowners insurance 6
  • Lawyers liability insurance 2
  • Liability insurance generally 14
  • Life insurance 5
  • Litigation 20
  • Local government
  • Motor vehicle insurance 12
  • Municipal
  • Non Disclosure 2
  • Property and loss of income insurance 4
  • Strata
  • Subrogation 5
• Intellectual Property 8
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 2
  • Computer software and Internet issues 1
  • Copyright 1
  • Disputes
  • Licensing 2
  • Litigation
  • Patents 2
  • Remedies 1
  • Tax issues
  • Trade-marks 6
  • Trade secrets 2
• Labour Law 45
  • Arbitration 16
  • Certification and decertification 2
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 6
  • Industrial disputes
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 10
  • Picketing 1
  • Practice 10
  • Successorship 2
  • Unfair labour practices 1
  • Unions 16
• Legal Research and Writing 19
• Legal Support Staff 186
  • Business law for LSS 14
  • Civil litigation for LSS 34
  • Collections for LSS
  • Conveyancing for LSS 33
  • Corporate records for LSS 1
  • Estate administration for LSS 19
  • Family law for LSS 33
  • Foreclosures for LSS
  • Paralegals
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 29
  • PPSA for LSS
  • Research for LSS 1
  • Securities for LSS
• Litigation 657
  • Aboriginal litigation 8
  • Advocacy skills 48
  • Affidavits
  • Appeals 16
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
  • Causes of action 40
  • Chambers applications 38
  • Class actions 28
  • Client Relations 22
  • Commercial litigation 29
  • Conflict of laws 2
  • Constitutional 4
  • Costs 43
  • Damages 17
  • Defamation 1
  • Discovery 48
  • Economic Loss
  • Estate litigation 32
  • Ethics 54
  • Evidence 170
  • Experts 105
  • Host Liability
  • Infants 6
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
  • Intellectual property litigation 1
  • Juries 6
  • Jurisdiction 23
  • Labour and employment litigation 10
  • Law Reform 13
  • Limitation of actions 8
  • Limitation Periods 14
  • Local government
  • Municipal 3
  • Orders 8
  • Pleadings 61
  • Practice 138
  • Pre-judgment remedies
  • Pre-trial Procedures 31
  • Professional Responsibility 85
  • Real estate litigation 51
  • Registrar practice
  • Releases
  • Remedies 11
  • Reviews 4
  • Securities litigation
  • Self-represented litigants
  • Settlement 21
  • Summary trials 9
  • Tax issues for litigators
  • Tax litigation
  • Torts 27
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trials 62
  • Unrepresented Litigants 17
  • Vicarious liability 2
• Local Government
  • Building regulation
  • Bylaws
  • Contracts
  • Councils
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General
  • Land use planning
  • Licensing
  • Litigation
  • Taxation
  • Zoning
• Maritime Law 1
• Municipal Law 24
  • Actions by and against municipalities
  • Bylaws 3
  • Contracts 2
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General 15
  • Land use planning 2
  • Licensing 1
  • Litigation
  • Municipal councils
  • Powers of municipality 3
  • Subdivision 14
  • Zoning 3
• Natural Resources 50
  • Aboriginal rights 22
  • Fisheries law 8
  • Forestry law 24
  • General 17
  • Indigenous legal orders 7
  • Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship 9
  • Mining law 20
  • Oil and gas law 2
  • Water 4
  • Wildlife 2
• Personal Injury 136
  • Client Relations 15
  • Costs 1
  • Damages 43
  • Defences 17
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 10
  • Experts
  • Family compensation claims 3
  • Host Liability 3
  • Injuries 37
  • Insurance 9
  • Mediation 2
  • Medical malpractice 1
  • Motor vehicle accidents 30
  • Occupiers liability 5
  • Part 7 benefits 15
  • Practice 57
  • Professional Responsibility 21
  • Structured settlements and judgments 7
  • Tax issues 2
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
• Practice Management 274
  • Billing 11
  • Client development 17
  • Client Relations 103
  • Conduct and the Law Society 21
  • Document management 22
  • Employee hiring and retention 18
  • Ethics 139
  • In House Counsel 2
  • Insurance 5
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 24
  • Partnership issues 12
  • Professional Responsibility 29
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
  • Solicitor-client privilege 16
  • Technology 23
  • Trauma-informed practice 11
  • Trust accounting 3
  • Wellness 20
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 169
  • Client Relations 92
  • Ethics 134
  • Trauma-informed practice 10
• Real Estate 378
  • Affidavits
  • Agents and brokers 7
  • Assessment 13
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 21
  • Certificate of pending litigation
  • Charges on title 10
  • Client Relations 21
  • Closing procedures 23
  • Commercial leases 32
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 18
  • Construction litigation 19
  • Conveyancing practice 60
  • Development cost charges 2
  • Development--general 29
  • Development rights 8
  • Easement
  • Environmental issues 4
  • Ethics 26
  • Expropriation 2
  • Financing 17
  • Foreclosure 31
  • Government approvals 2
  • Indian Act conveyancing 6
  • Land Title Office 24
  • Legal proceedings 61
  • Licensees
  • Manufactured homes 3
  • Mortgages 24
  • Owner developers and strata corporations
  • Professional Responsibility 37
  • Purchase contract 25
  • Residential tenancies 3
  • Searches and investigations 9
  • Site development control 3
  • Statements of adjustments 4
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 21
  • Strata plans 7
  • Strata properties--general 35
  • Structure of the developer 1
  • Subdivision 11
  • Surveys 2
  • Tax issues 53
  • Title 17
  • Undertakings 6
  • Vancouver Charter 2
  • Zoning 3
• School Law 2
• Secured Transactions 16
  • Chattel mortgages
  • Conflict of laws 1
  • Debtor protection 5
  • Due diligence 1
  • Enforcement 1
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 1
  • General 10
  • Intellectual property 2
  • Loans
  • Mortgages 2
  • Perfection
  • Purchase money security interests
  • Receivers
  • Registration 3
  • Security agreements 6
  • Security interests 3
• Securities 60
  • Appeals 2
  • BC Securities Commission 7
  • Disclosure 18
  • Due diligence 1
  • General 23
  • Hearings 4
  • Investigations 5
  • Judicial review 2
  • Local Policy Statements 3
  • National Registration Database
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
  • Offences 6
  • Orders 4
  • Practice 23
  • Private placement 3
  • Public offering 7
  • Regulation 13
  • Searches
  • Stockbrokers
  • Stock exchanges 8
  • Stock options
  • Takeover bids 5
  • Underwriters
• Solicitor 24
  • Conduct and the Law Society 7
  • Conflict of interest 5
  • Ethics 14
  • Solicitor-client privilege 7
• Strata Law 14
  • Insurance
  • Strata Corporations 1
  • Strata Plans 2
• Tax 71
  • 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 2
  • Goods and Services Tax 3
  • 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) 5
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 8
  • Reorganizations 3
  • Rollovers 4
  • Sales tax 3
  • Shares and shareholders 4
  • Tax litigation 2
  • Tax planning 7
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 29
• Technology Law 36
  • Intellectual property 6
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 7
  • Online contract formation
  • Practice 9
  • Privacy laws 13
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 1
  • Research 4
• Wills Estates and Trusts 299
  • Administration application 17
  • Adult guardianship 29
  • Charitable giving 3
  • Client Relations 43
  • Committeeship 3
  • Curative provisions 5
  • Devolution of assets 33
  • Elder care 70
  • Estate litigation 70
  • Estate planning 128
  • Ethics 23
  • Executors and trustees 29
  • Fiduciary 4
  • General 21
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 11
  • Life estate 1
  • Multijurisdictional estates 6
  • Passing of accounts
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 6
  • Practice 1
  • Probate application 17
  • Professional Responsibility 32
  • Rectifying wills 3
  • Representation agreement 3
  • Tax issues 50
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trust planning 65
  • Wills 78
  • Wills challenges 7
• Workers Compensation 26
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 1
  • Claims 22
  • General 15
  • Liability of employer 20
  • Procedure 7
  • Workers Compensation Board 3