Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 214
  • Business and aboriginal law 35
  • Child protection 44
  • Criminal justice system 34
  • Dispute resolution
  • Family law 27
  • General 104
  • Indian Act
  • Indian residential schools
  • Lands and title 67
  • Litigation 15
  • Practice 53
  • Rights 87
  • Self-government 58
  • Tax issues 9
  • Treaty Negotiations 5
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 5
  • Wills and estates 1
• Access to Justice 17
  • Children 7
  • General 16
  • Indigenous child welfare 7
  • Trauma-informed practice 16
• Administrative Law 146
  • Abuse of discretion 1
  • Appellate review 22
  • Bias and impartiality
  • Charter cases 13
  • Choice of forum
  • Discipline proceedings 12
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 9
  • Judicial review 82
  • Jurisdiction 17
  • Natural justice 12
  • Parties
  • Practice 70
  • Remedies 26
  • Self-represented parties
  • Standard of review 1
  • Tribunals 44
• ADR 110
  • Arbitration 39
  • Collaborative law 3
  • Judicial review 7
  • Mediation 25
  • Mediation--family law 15
  • Practice 43
• Air Law
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 31
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 8
  • Appeals 2
  • Directors liability 5
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 4
  • General 20
  • Petitions 1
  • Practice 10
  • Priorities 15
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 10
  • Receiving orders 4
  • Settlements and preferences 8
  • Trustees 4
• Builders Liens 12
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien
  • Enforcement
  • General
  • Holdbacks
  • Priority of liens
  • Solicitors liability
  • Subcontractors
• Business Law 321
  • Acquisitions and mergers 41
  • Amalgamations 2
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law 4
  • Buying and selling a business 60
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 5
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 21
  • Client Relations 29
  • Commercial litigation 28
  • Competition law 1
  • Continuations 2
  • Contracts 38
  • Corporate finance 47
  • Corporate governance 43
  • 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 8
  • Partnerships 10
  • Practice 45
  • Privacy 4
  • Professional Responsibility 39
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 15
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 7
  • 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 10
• Constitutional Law
  • Charter
  • Division of powers
  • Indigenous
• Creditors Remedies 90
  • Acting for the creditor 41
  • Acting for the debtor 32
  • 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 4
  • Postjudgment remedies 8
  • Prejudgment garnishment 4
  • Priorities 18
  • Proceeding to judgment 4
  • Promissory notes
  • Repairers liens 1
  • Searches 2
• Criminal Law 114
  • Anti-terrorism 13
  • Appeals 11
  • Charter of Rights 30
  • Client Relations 18
  • Defences 15
  • Domestic violence 8
  • Ethics 15
  • Evidence 47
  • Indigenous legal orders 9
  • Judicial interim release 11
  • Juries 8
  • Offences 35
  • Practice 32
  • Prison law 8
  • Professional Responsibility 39
  • Restorative justice 8
  • Sentencing 25
  • Trauma-informed practice 9
  • Young offenders 13
• Cultural Competency 8
  • Ethics 8
  • Professional responsibility 8
  • 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 187
  • Benefits 8
  • Client Relations 8
  • Compensation 13
  • Defamation 3
  • Discrimination 46
  • Duties and liabilities 37
  • Employment contracts 40
  • Employment standards 27
  • Ethics 4
  • General 56
  • Mandatory Retirement
  • Occupational health and safety 27
  • Pensions 3
  • Practice 38
  • Privacy 26
  • Professional Responsibility 12
  • Sexual harassment 9
  • Tax issues 4
  • Wrongful dismissal 49
• Environmental Law 39
  • Climate change
  • Conservation covenants
  • Contaminated sites 18
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 12
  • Environmental protection 14
  • Forest practices 2
  • Indigenous 8
  • Insurance 1
  • Liability 11
  • Waste management
• Family Law 335
  • Access to justice for children 1
  • Adoption 14
  • ADR 31
  • Advocacy
  • Appeals 3
  • Assessments and reports
  • Assisted reproductive technologies
  • Child abduction
  • Child development 1
  • Child protection 89
  • Child rights 1
  • Child support 41
  • Client Relations 67
  • Collaborative law 5
  • Common law spouses 1
  • Conflict of laws 5
  • Costs 6
  • Custody and access 84
  • Division of property 55
  • 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 1
  • Interim relief 11
  • Marriage 3
  • Marriage agreements 7
  • Mediation 15
  • Multiculturalism 22
  • Naming children 1
  • Orders 36
  • Parental alienation
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact
  • Pensions 3
  • 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 4
  • Trusts
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 40
  • Valuation
  • Views of child
• FOI and Privacy 24
• Health Law 19
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution
• Human Rights 159
  • BCHRA 28
  • Charter 39
  • CHRA 2
  • Client Relations 12
  • Discrimination 72
  • Ethics 12
  • Ethics 1
  • General 56
  • Indigenous human rights
  • Procedure 19
  • Professional Responsibility 13
  • Remedies 19
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Immigration 83
  • Admission 30
  • Appeals 30
  • Business immigrants 16
  • Citizenship 13
  • Client Relations 18
  • Detention
  • Ethics 11
  • Extradition 6
  • Labour market impact assessment
  • Permanent residency 12
  • Policy 17
  • Practice 60
  • Professional Responsibility 12
  • Provincial nominee program
  • Refugees 31
  • Tax issues 1
  • Visas 9
  • Work permits
• Indigenous Legal Orders 29
  • Child welfare 14
  • Dispute resolution 7
  • Education 7
  • Elders 7
  • Family 7
  • Health 8
  • Intellectual property 7
  • International law 8
  • Lands and titles 8
  • Language 7
  • Legal orders 13
  • Natural resources 13
  • Sovereignty 13
  • Stewardship 13
  • Trauma-informed practice 15
• Insurance 85
  • 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 26
  • Local government
  • Motor vehicle insurance 13
  • Municipal
  • Non Disclosure 3
  • Property and loss of income insurance 5
  • Strata
  • Subrogation 6
• Intellectual Property 9
  • 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 24
• Legal Support Staff 210
  • Business law for LSS 15
  • Civil litigation for LSS 35
  • Collections for LSS
  • Conveyancing for LSS 32
  • Corporate records for LSS 1
  • Estate administration for LSS 33
  • Family law for LSS 40
  • Foreclosures for LSS
  • Paralegals
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 29
  • PPSA for LSS 2
  • Research for LSS 1
  • Securities for LSS
• Litigation 795
  • Aboriginal litigation 8
  • Advocacy skills 53
  • Affidavits
  • Appeals 24
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
  • Causes of action 47
  • Chambers applications 41
  • Class actions 37
  • Client Relations 29
  • Commercial litigation 29
  • Conflict of laws 3
  • Constitutional 4
  • Costs 53
  • Damages 19
  • Defamation 13
  • Discovery 66
  • Economic Loss
  • Estate litigation 32
  • Ethics 69
  • Evidence 203
  • Experts 132
  • 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 175
  • 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 25
  • Summary trials 11
  • Tax issues for litigators
  • Tax litigation
  • Torts 26
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trials 70
  • Unrepresented Litigants 26
  • 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 60
  • Aboriginal rights 24
  • Fisheries law 8
  • Forestry law 25
  • General 17
  • Indigenous legal orders 7
  • Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship 8
  • Mining law 30
  • Oil and gas law 3
  • Water 4
  • Wildlife 2
• Personal Injury 157
  • Client Relations 16
  • Costs 1
  • Damages 44
  • Defences 17
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 13
  • Experts
  • Family compensation claims 3
  • Host Liability 3
  • Injuries 49
  • Insurance 11
  • Mediation 2
  • Medical malpractice 4
  • Motor vehicle accidents 33
  • Occupiers liability 5
  • Part 7 benefits 16
  • Practice 62
  • Professional Responsibility 23
  • Structured settlements and judgments 7
  • Tax issues 2
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
• Practice Management 319
  • Billing 20
  • Client development 27
  • Client Relations 115
  • Conduct and the Law Society 23
  • Document management 32
  • Employee hiring and retention 20
  • Ethics 154
  • In House Counsel 2
  • Insurance 5
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 34
  • Partnership issues 13
  • Professional Responsibility 30
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 3
  • Solicitor-client privilege 18
  • Technology 35
  • Trauma-informed practice 11
  • Trust accounting 8
  • Wellness 9
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 194
  • Client Relations 99
  • Ethics 151
  • Trauma-informed practice 10
• Real Estate 403
  • 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 34
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 18
  • Construction litigation 19
  • Conveyancing practice 59
  • Development cost charges 2
  • Development--general 34
  • Development rights 8
  • Easement
  • Environmental issues 4
  • Ethics 28
  • Expropriation 2
  • Financing 17
  • Foreclosure 33
  • Government approvals 2
  • Indian Act conveyancing 6
  • Land Title Office 30
  • Legal proceedings 65
  • Licensees
  • Manufactured homes 3
  • Mortgages 25
  • Owner developers and strata corporations
  • Professional Responsibility 38
  • Purchase contract 26
  • Residential tenancies 6
  • Searches and investigations 9
  • Site development control 3
  • Statements of adjustments 4
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 25
  • Strata plans 13
  • Strata properties--general 41
  • Structure of the developer 1
  • Subdivision 16
  • Surveys 8
  • Tax issues 62
  • Title 22
  • Undertakings 6
  • Vancouver Charter 2
  • Zoning 3
• School Law 2
• Secured Transactions 17
  • Chattel mortgages
  • Conflict of laws 1
  • Debtor protection 6
  • Due diligence 1
  • Enforcement 1
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 1
  • General 11
  • Intellectual property 2
  • Loans
  • Mortgages 2
  • Perfection
  • Purchase money security interests
  • Receivers
  • Registration 4
  • Security agreements 7
  • Security interests 3
• 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 31
  • Conduct and the Law Society 9
  • Conflict of interest 5
  • Ethics 15
  • Solicitor-client privilege 11
• Strata Law
  • Insurance
  • Strata Corporations
  • Strata Plans
• Tax 74
  • 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 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 54
  • Intellectual property 6
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 8
  • Online contract formation
  • Practice 19
  • Privacy laws 15
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 4
  • Research 5
• Wills Estates and Trusts 311
  • Administration application 20
  • Adult guardianship 29
  • Charitable giving 3
  • Client Relations 44
  • Committeeship
  • Curative provisions 1
  • Devolution of assets 34
  • Elder care 70
  • Estate litigation 70
  • Estate planning 133
  • Ethics 24
  • Executors and trustees 29
  • Fiduciary 4
  • General 25
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues
  • Life estate
  • Multijurisdictional estates 6
  • Passing of accounts
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney
  • Practice 1
  • Probate application 20
  • Professional Responsibility 33
  • Rectifying wills
  • Representation agreement
  • Tax issues 50
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trust planning 65
  • Wills 82
  • Wills challenges 1
• Workers Compensation 27
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 1
  • Claims 23
  • General 15
  • Liability of employer 21
  • Procedure 7
  • Workers Compensation Board 3