Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 204
  • Business and aboriginal law 31
  • Child protection 43
  • Criminal justice system 47
  • Dispute resolution
  • Family law 28
  • General 90
  • Indian Act 4
  • Indian residential schools 4
  • Lands and title 58
  • Litigation 12
  • Practice 49
  • Rights 86
  • Self-government 49
  • Tax issues 6
  • Treaty Negotiations 5
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations
  • Wills and estates 1
• Access to Justice 38
  • Children 20
  • General 19
  • Indigenous child welfare 19
  • Trauma-informed practice 16
• Administrative Law 158
  • Abuse of discretion 3
  • Appellate review 24
  • Bias and impartiality 1
  • Charter cases 15
  • Choice of forum
  • Discipline proceedings 12
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 6
  • Judicial review 82
  • Jurisdiction 20
  • Natural justice 13
  • Parties 1
  • Practice 80
  • Remedies 25
  • Self-represented parties 2
  • Standard of review 16
  • Tribunals 42
• ADR 113
  • Arbitration 34
  • Collaborative law
  • Judicial review 9
  • Mediation 26
  • Mediation--family law 13
  • Practice 50
• Air Law
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 39
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 8
  • Appeals 2
  • Directors liability 6
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 4
  • General 30
  • Petitions 1
  • Practice 19
  • Priorities 14
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 11
  • Receiving orders 5
  • Settlements and preferences 9
  • Trustees 4
• Builders Liens 21
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien 1
  • Enforcement 1
  • General 10
  • Holdbacks
  • Priority of liens 1
  • Solicitors liability
  • Subcontractors
• Business Law 313
  • Acquisitions and mergers 39
  • Amalgamations 1
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law
  • Buying and selling a business 55
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 6
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 26
  • Client Relations 29
  • Commercial litigation 28
  • Competition law 1
  • Continuations 2
  • Contracts 41
  • Corporate finance 42
  • Corporate governance 49
  • Corporate procedures 35
  • Directors 15
  • Dissolution and restoration 1
  • Ethics 17
  • Extra-provincial companies
  • Fiduciary 4
  • Franchising 8
  • Fraud 8
  • Incorporation and organization 14
  • International 6
  • Partnerships 16
  • Practice 44
  • Privacy 4
  • Professional Responsibility 39
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 14
  • Shareholder agreements 1
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 6
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 16
• Childrens Law 13
  • Access to justice for children 5
  • Child development 3
  • Child protection 9
  • Child rights 6
  • Indigenous child welfare 11
  • Trauma-informed practice 8
• Communications Law
• Constitutional Law 1
  • Charter 1
  • Division of powers
  • Indigenous
• Creditors Remedies 82
  • Acting for the creditor 38
  • Acting for the debtor 30
  • Assets subject to attachment 11
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 14
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 12
  • Consumer Protection
  • Equitable remedies 4
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 11
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 3
  • Postjudgment remedies 8
  • Prejudgment garnishment 4
  • Priorities 10
  • Proceeding to judgment 4
  • Promissory notes
  • Repairers liens 2
  • Searches 2
• Criminal Law 140
  • Anti-terrorism 13
  • Appeals 16
  • Charter of Rights 36
  • Client Relations 33
  • Defences 18
  • Domestic violence 9
  • Ethics 15
  • Evidence 46
  • Indigenous legal orders 12
  • Judicial interim release 12
  • Juries 8
  • Offences 42
  • Practice 57
  • Prison law 8
  • Professional Responsibility 47
  • Restorative justice 20
  • Sentencing 37
  • Trauma-informed practice 20
  • Young offenders 24
• Cultural Competency 30
  • Ethics 18
  • Professional responsibility 18
  • Trauma-informed practice 8
• Dispute Resolution 2
  • Arbitration
  • Choice of forum
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution
  • Mediation
  • Mediation—Family Law 2
  • Practice
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 8
  • Ethics 8
  • Professional responsibility 8
  • Trauma-informed practice 8
• Employment Law 208
  • Benefits 8
  • Client Relations 8
  • Compensation 14
  • Defamation 2
  • Discrimination 47
  • Duties and liabilities 39
  • Employment contracts 47
  • Employment standards 30
  • Ethics 4
  • General 73
  • Mandatory Retirement
  • Occupational health and safety 34
  • Pensions 3
  • Practice 53
  • Privacy 28
  • Professional Responsibility 12
  • Sexual harassment 11
  • Tax issues 4
  • Wrongful dismissal 56
• Environmental Law 43
  • Climate change 8
  • Conservation covenants 1
  • Contaminated sites 12
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 9
  • Environmental protection 25
  • Forest practices 2
  • Indigenous 12
  • Insurance 1
  • Liability 8
  • Waste management
• Family Law 368
  • Access to justice for children 1
  • Adoption 14
  • ADR 32
  • Advocacy 5
  • Appeals 1
  • Assessments and reports 4
  • Assisted reproductive technologies 7
  • Child abduction
  • Child development 2
  • Child protection 88
  • Child rights 2
  • Child support 48
  • Client Relations 83
  • Collaborative law 5
  • Common law spouses
  • Conflict of laws 4
  • Costs 5
  • Custody and access 66
  • Division of property 64
  • Divorce 13
  • Dispute resolution 4
  • Ethics 51
  • Evidence 46
  • Excluded property 8
  • Family law agreements 1
  • Family violence 6
  • Financial disclosure 5
  • General 77
  • Guardianship 53
  • Indigenous 3
  • Indigenous child welfare 5
  • Interim relief 10
  • Marriage 6
  • Marriage agreements 7
  • Mediation 15
  • Multiculturalism 22
  • Naming children 1
  • Orders 44
  • Parental alienation 3
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact 24
  • Pensions 4
  • Pleadings 60
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 3
  • Professional Responsibility 40
  • Property Agreements 4
  • Property Agreements
  • References to Registrar 2
  • Same-sex couples 10
  • Self-represented Litigants 3
  • Separation agreements 17
  • Significant unfairness 7
  • Spousal support 58
  • Tax issues 13
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
  • Trusts 4
  • Unjust enrichment 1
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 36
  • Valuation 11
  • Views of child 3
• FOI and Privacy 26
• Health Law 14
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution
• Human Rights 192
  • BCHRA 33
  • Charter 39
  • CHRA 4
  • Client Relations 13
  • Discrimination 79
  • Ethics 12
  • Ethics 2
  • General 69
  • Indigenous human rights 7
  • Procedure 26
  • Professional Responsibility 13
  • Remedies 21
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Immigration 80
  • Admission 26
  • Appeals 31
  • Business immigrants 11
  • Citizenship 11
  • Client Relations 15
  • Detention 4
  • Ethics 6
  • Extradition 5
  • Labour market impact assessment 3
  • Permanent residency 15
  • Policy 15
  • Practice 56
  • Professional Responsibility 9
  • Provincial nominee program 1
  • Refugees 31
  • Tax issues
  • Visas 6
  • Work permits 5
• Indigenous Legal Orders 89
  • Child welfare 24
  • Dispute resolution 18
  • Education 8
  • Elders 9
  • Family 11
  • Health 12
  • Intellectual property 7
  • International law 9
  • Lands and titles 11
  • Language 8
  • Legal orders 25
  • Natural resources 13
  • Sovereignty 23
  • Stewardship 14
  • Trauma-informed practice 28
• Insurance 92
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
  • Agents 3
  • Bad faith
  • Breach
  • Claims 31
  • 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
  • Subrogation 5
• Intellectual Property 17
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 2
  • Computer software and Internet issues 2
  • Copyright 2
  • Disputes 8
  • Licensing 4
  • Litigation 7
  • Patents 3
  • Remedies 1
  • Tax issues
  • Trade-marks 7
  • Trade secrets 3
• Labour Law 52
  • Arbitration 19
  • Certification and decertification 3
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 8
  • Industrial disputes
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 11
  • Picketing 1
  • Practice 13
  • Successorship 3
  • Unfair labour practices 1
  • Unions 18
• Legal Research and Writing 19
• Legal Support Staff 218
  • Business law for LSS 14
  • Civil litigation for LSS 42
  • Collections for LSS
  • Conveyancing for LSS 33
  • Corporate records for LSS 1
  • Estate administration for LSS 34
  • Family law for LSS 39
  • Foreclosures for LSS
  • Paralegals 9
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 29
  • PPSA for LSS
  • Research for LSS 1
  • Securities for LSS
• Litigation 757
  • Aboriginal litigation 8
  • Advocacy skills 66
  • Affidavits 5
  • Appeals 23
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
  • Causes of action 48
  • Chambers applications 40
  • Class actions 31
  • Client Relations 26
  • Commercial litigation 29
  • Conflict of laws 2
  • Constitutional 4
  • Costs 44
  • Damages 27
  • Defamation 10
  • Discovery 58
  • Economic Loss 1
  • Estate litigation 34
  • Ethics 56
  • Evidence 183
  • Experts 115
  • Host Liability
  • Infants 6
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
  • Intellectual property litigation 9
  • Juries 6
  • Jurisdiction 24
  • Labour and employment litigation 10
  • Law Reform 16
  • Limitation of actions 8
  • Limitation Periods 14
  • Local government 1
  • Municipal 3
  • Orders 8
  • Pleadings 65
  • Practice 177
  • Pre-judgment remedies 2
  • Pre-trial Procedures 34
  • Professional Responsibility 93
  • Real estate litigation 55
  • Registrar practice 1
  • Releases
  • Remedies 12
  • Reviews 4
  • Securities litigation 2
  • Self-represented litigants
  • Settlement 21
  • Summary trials 9
  • Tax issues for litigators
  • Tax litigation
  • Torts 32
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Trials 64
  • Unrepresented Litigants 17
  • 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 57
  • Aboriginal rights 25
  • Fisheries law 10
  • Forestry law 24
  • General 18
  • Indigenous legal orders 7
  • Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship 12
  • Mining law 21
  • Oil and gas law 2
  • Water 5
  • Wildlife 5
• Personal Injury 145
  • Client Relations 15
  • Costs 2
  • Damages 45
  • Defences 19
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 10
  • Experts 1
  • Family compensation claims 3
  • Host Liability 3
  • Injuries 41
  • Insurance 10
  • Mediation 2
  • Medical malpractice 2
  • Motor vehicle accidents 32
  • Occupiers liability 6
  • Part 7 benefits 15
  • Practice 61
  • Professional Responsibility 21
  • Structured settlements and judgments 7
  • Tax issues 2
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
• Practice Management 336
  • Billing 13
  • Client development 22
  • Client Relations 114
  • Conduct and the Law Society 26
  • Document management 23
  • Employee hiring and retention 24
  • Ethics 148
  • In House Counsel 3
  • Insurance 7
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 41
  • Partnership issues 16
  • Professional Responsibility 47
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
  • Solicitor-client privilege 17
  • Technology 41
  • Trauma-informed practice 11
  • Trust accounting 5
  • Wellness 33
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 172
  • Client Relations 93
  • Ethics 136
  • Trauma-informed practice 10
• Real Estate 435
  • Affidavits 1
  • Agents and brokers 9
  • Assessment 16
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 21
  • Certificate of pending litigation 1
  • Charges on title 14
  • Client Relations 27
  • Closing procedures 25
  • Commercial leases 33
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 26
  • Construction litigation 27
  • Conveyancing practice 71
  • Development cost charges 3
  • Development--general 34
  • Development rights 8
  • Easement
  • Environmental issues 5
  • Ethics 30
  • Expropriation 2
  • Financing 21
  • Foreclosure 35
  • Government approvals 2
  • Indian Act conveyancing 6
  • Land Title Office 27
  • Legal proceedings 64
  • Licensees
  • Manufactured homes 3
  • Mortgages 28
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 1
  • Professional Responsibility 43
  • Purchase contract 28
  • Residential tenancies 4
  • Searches and investigations 12
  • Site development control 3
  • Statements of adjustments 5
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 32
  • Strata plans 10
  • Strata properties--general 52
  • Structure of the developer 1
  • Subdivision 17
  • Surveys 2
  • Tax issues 60
  • Title 20
  • Undertakings 8
  • Vancouver Charter 2
  • Zoning 5
• School Law 8
• Secured Transactions 23
  • Chattel mortgages
  • Conflict of laws 3
  • Debtor protection 5
  • Due diligence 3
  • Enforcement 2
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 2
  • General 17
  • Intellectual property 2
  • Loans
  • Mortgages 2
  • Perfection 2
  • Purchase money security interests 1
  • Receivers
  • Registration 5
  • Security agreements 13
  • Security interests 10
• Securities 68
  • Appeals 2
  • BC Securities Commission 9
  • Disclosure 22
  • Due diligence 2
  • General 29
  • Hearings 4
  • Investigations 6
  • Judicial review 2
  • Local Policy Statements 4
  • National Registration Database
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
  • Offences 6
  • Orders 4
  • Practice 24
  • Private placement 3
  • Public offering 8
  • Regulation 14
  • Searches
  • Stockbrokers
  • Stock exchanges 10
  • 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 27
  • Insurance 1
  • Strata Corporations 12
  • Strata Plans 5
• Tax 83
  • Aboriginal tax issues 5
  • Anti-avoidance rules 1
  • Appeals 1
  • Audits 3
  • Buying and selling a business 1
  • Capital gains 11
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 3
  • Collection practices and procedures
  • Corporate 21
  • Family law tax issues 4
  • Foreign income
  • General 8
  • Goods and Services Tax 6
  • 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 4
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 7
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 10
  • Reorganizations 3
  • Rollovers 4
  • Sales tax 5
  • Shares and shareholders 5
  • Tax litigation 2
  • Tax planning 9
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 30
• Technology Law 52
  • Intellectual property 7
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 8
  • Online contract formation 1
  • Practice 17
  • Privacy laws 17
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 1
  • Research 10
• Wills Estates and Trusts 354
  • Administration application 18
  • Adult guardianship 30
  • Charitable giving 5
  • Client Relations 57
  • Committeeship 4
  • Curative provisions 6
  • Devolution of assets 40
  • Elder care 76
  • Estate litigation 83
  • Estate planning 156
  • Ethics 26
  • Executors and trustees 34
  • Fiduciary 4
  • General 26
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 24
  • Life estate 1
  • Multijurisdictional estates 6
  • Passing of accounts 2
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 10
  • Practice 13
  • Probate application 21
  • Professional Responsibility 37
  • Rectifying wills 4
  • Representation agreement 6
  • Tax issues 67
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
  • Trust planning 77
  • Wills 92
  • Wills challenges 11
• Workers Compensation 39
  • Assessments 2
  • Benefits 4
  • Claims 30
  • General 27
  • Liability of employer 22
  • Procedure 13
  • Workers Compensation Board 4