Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 111
  • Business and aboriginal law 19
  • Child protection 26
  • Criminal justice system 22
  • Family law 20
  • General 71
  • Lands and title 22
  • Litigation 6
  • Practice 35
  • Rights 43
  • Self-government 25
  • Tax issues 6
  • Treaty Negotiations 3
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations
  • Wills and estates 1
• Administrative Law 83
  • Abuse of discretion
  • Appellate review 9
  • Charter cases 5
  • Discipline proceedings 7
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 1
  • Judicial review 44
  • Jurisdiction 7
  • Natural justice 5
  • Practice 38
  • Remedies 12
  • Tribunals 22
• ADR 68
  • Arbitration 24
  • Collaborative law 3
  • Judicial review 7
  • Mediation 10
  • Mediation--family law 9
  • Practice 28
• Air Law
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 13
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 4
  • Appeals 1
  • Directors liability 4
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 3
  • General 13
  • Petitions 1
  • Practice 10
  • Priorities 5
  • Proposals 5
  • Receiving orders 2
  • Settlements and preferences 3
  • Trustees 4
• Builders Liens
• Business Law 184
  • Acquisitions and mergers 32
  • Amalgamations 1
  • Banking law
  • Buying and selling a business 42
  • Capital alterations 4
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 21
  • Client Relations 24
  • Commercial litigation 12
  • Competition law
  • Continuations 1
  • Contracts 23
  • Corporate finance 26
  • Corporate governance 30
  • Corporate procedures 30
  • Directors 10
  • Dissolution and restoration 1
  • Ethics 12
  • Extra-provincial companies
  • Fiduciary 3
  • Franchising 8
  • Fraud 6
  • Incorporation and organization 14
  • International 3
  • Partnerships 9
  • Practice 36
  • Privacy 3
  • Professional Responsibility 31
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 6
  • Shares 5
  • Tax issues 6
• Communications Law
• Creditors Remedies 33
  • Acting for the creditor 18
  • Acting for the debtor 10
  • Assets subject to attachment 7
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 9
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
  • Consumer Protection
  • Equitable remedies 3
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 5
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 1
  • Postjudgment remedies 4
  • Prejudgment garnishment 2
  • Priorities 2
  • Proceeding to judgment 1
  • Repairers liens 1
  • Searches 1
• Criminal Law 47
  • Anti-terrorism
  • Appeals 1
  • Charter of Rights 5
  • Client Relations 2
  • Defences 5
  • Ethics 2
  • Evidence 16
  • Judicial interim release 2
  • Juries
  • Offences 7
  • Practice 7
  • Professional Responsibility 14
  • Sentencing 12
  • Young offenders 1
• Employment Law 136
  • Benefits 8
  • Client Relations 7
  • Compensation 10
  • Defamation 1
  • Discrimination 31
  • Duties and liabilities 30
  • Employment contracts 31
  • Employment standards 16
  • Ethics 3
  • General 47
  • Mandatory Retirement
  • Occupational health and safety 23
  • Pensions 1
  • Practice 34
  • Privacy 19
  • Professional Responsibility 11
  • Sexual harassment 6
  • Tax issues 2
  • Wrongful dismissal 30
• Environmental Law 16
  • Conservation covenants
  • Contaminated sites 10
  • Endangered species
  • Environmental assessment 3
  • Environmental protection 4
  • Forest practices
  • Insurance
  • Liability 5
  • Waste management
• Family Law 210
  • Adoption 12
  • ADR 25
  • Advocacy
  • Appeals 1
  • Child protection 51
  • Child support 25
  • Client Relations 55
  • Collaborative law 5
  • Common law spouses
  • Conflict of laws 3
  • Costs 3
  • Custody and access 67
  • Division of property 32
  • Divorce 10
  • Ethics 42
  • Evidence 30
  • General 48
  • Guardianship 38
  • Interim relief 9
  • Marriage 2
  • Marriage agreements 3
  • Mediation 13
  • Multiculturalism 22
  • Naming children
  • Orders 23
  • Pensions 2
  • Pleadings 40
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 1
  • Professional Responsibility 30
  • Property Agreements 1
  • Property Agreements
  • References to Registrar 1
  • Same-sex couples 6
  • Separation agreements 11
  • Spousal support 31
  • Tax issues 6
  • Unrepresented Litigants 22
• FOI and Privacy 17
• Health Law 6
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution
• Human Rights 97
  • BCHRA 23
  • Charter 13
  • CHRA 2
  • Client Relations 12
  • Discrimination 46
  • Ethics 10
  • Ethics 1
  • General 40
  • Procedure 9
  • Professional Responsibility 11
  • Remedies 13
• Immigration 44
  • Admission 16
  • Appeals 13
  • Business immigrants 8
  • Citizenship 4
  • Client Relations 12
  • Ethics 5
  • Extradition 1
  • Permanent residency 2
  • Policy 7
  • Practice 36
  • Professional Responsibility 9
  • Refugees 11
  • Tax issues
  • Visas 4
• Insurance 48
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 3
  • Agents 2
  • Claims 18
  • Contracts 17
  • Damages 5
  • Defences 6
  • Directors and officers insurance 2
  • Duties and liabilities 4
  • Exclusions 9
  • Fire insurance 3
  • Homeowners insurance 4
  • Lawyers liability insurance 2
  • Liability insurance generally 11
  • Life insurance 1
  • Litigation 12
  • Motor vehicle insurance 1
  • Municipal
  • Non Disclosure 1
  • Property and loss of income insurance 2
  • Subrogation 1
• Intellectual Property 4
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 2
  • Computer software and Internet issues 1
  • Copyright
  • Licensing 2
  • Patents 2
  • Remedies 1
  • Tax issues
  • Trade-marks 4
  • Trade secrets 2
• Labour Law 34
  • Arbitration 10
  • Certification and decertification 1
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 2
  • Industrial disputes
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 8
  • Picketing 1
  • Practice 4
  • Successorship
  • Unfair labour practices
  • Unions 7
• Legal Research and Writing 11
• Legal Support Staff 132
  • Business law for LSS 11
  • Civil litigation for LSS 23
  • Collections for LSS
  • Conveyancing for LSS 10
  • Corporate records for LSS 1
  • Estate administration for LSS 17
  • Family law for LSS 24
  • Foreclosures for LSS
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 23
  • PPSA for LSS
  • Research for LSS 1
  • Securities for LSS
• Litigation 382
  • Aboriginal litigation 4
  • Advocacy skills 35
  • Appeals 15
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 3
  • Causes of action 20
  • Chambers applications 23
  • Class actions 13
  • Client Relations 14
  • Commercial litigation 11
  • Conflict of laws
  • Constitutional 3
  • Costs 26
  • Damages 12
  • Defamation
  • Discovery 27
  • Economic Loss
  • Estate litigation 14
  • Ethics 32
  • Evidence 85
  • Experts 52
  • Host Liability
  • Infants
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
  • Intellectual property litigation 1
  • Juries 1
  • Jurisdiction 15
  • Labour and employment litigation 10
  • Law Reform 7
  • Limitation of actions 4
  • Limitation Periods 2
  • Municipal 2
  • Orders 7
  • Pleadings 38
  • Practice 76
  • Pre-trial Procedures 21
  • Professional Responsibility 63
  • Real estate litigation 37
  • Remedies 1
  • Reviews 3
  • Securities litigation
  • Settlement 9
  • Summary trials 5
  • Tax issues for litigators
  • Tax litigation
  • Torts 10
  • Trials 36
  • Unrepresented Litigants 11
  • Vicarious liability 1
• Maritime Law
• Municipal Law 12
  • Actions by and against municipalities
  • Bylaws 2
  • Contracts 1
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General 7
  • Land use planning 1
  • Licensing
  • Litigation
  • Municipal councils
  • Powers of municipality 2
  • Subdivision 7
  • Zoning 1
• Natural Resources 22
  • Aboriginal rights 5
  • Fisheries law
  • Forestry law 8
  • General 14
  • Mining law 11
  • Oil and gas law 1
  • Water
  • Wildlife
• Personal Injury 78
  • Client Relations 5
  • Damages 30
  • Defences 6
  • Ethics 1
  • Family compensation claims 1
  • Host Liability 1
  • Injuries 20
  • Insurance 5
  • Mediation 2
  • Medical malpractice
  • Motor vehicle accidents 12
  • Occupiers liability 2
  • Part 7 benefits 8
  • Practice 32
  • Professional Responsibility 6
  • Structured settlements and judgments 4
  • Tax issues 2
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
• Practice Management 163
  • Billing 7
  • Client development 11
  • Client Relations 57
  • Conduct and the Law Society 15
  • Document management 11
  • Employee hiring and retention 15
  • Ethics 93
  • In House Counsel 1
  • Insurance 4
  • Management and organization of firms 15
  • Partnership issues 12
  • Professional Responsibility 4
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 1
  • Solicitor-client privilege 13
  • Technology 12
  • Trust accounting 2
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 96
  • Client Relations 45
  • Ethics 83
• Real Estate 237
  • Agents and brokers 6
  • Assessment 10
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 10
  • Charges on title 7
  • Client Relations 7
  • Closing procedures 17
  • Commercial leases 16
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 12
  • Construction litigation 10
  • Conveyancing practice 27
  • Development cost charges 2
  • Development--general 19
  • Development rights 7
  • Environmental issues 2
  • Ethics 10
  • Expropriation 1
  • Financing 11
  • Foreclosure 12
  • Government approvals 2
  • Indian Act conveyancing 4
  • Land Title Office 12
  • Legal proceedings 44
  • Manufactured homes 2
  • Mortgages 11
  • Owner developers and strata corporations
  • Professional Responsibility 13
  • Purchase contract 15
  • Residential tenancies 2
  • Searches and investigations 4
  • Site development control 3
  • Statements of adjustments 2
  • Strata corporations 20
  • Strata plans 4
  • Strata properties--general 27
  • Structure of the developer 1
  • Subdivision 3
  • Surveys 1
  • Tax issues 45
  • Title 12
  • Undertakings 4
  • Vancouver Charter 2
  • Zoning 3
• School Law 2
• Secured Transactions 7
  • Chattel mortgages
  • Conflict of laws
  • Debtor protection
  • Due diligence
  • Enforcement
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions
  • General 7
  • Intellectual property
  • Loans
  • Mortgages
  • Perfection
  • Purchase money security interests
  • Receivers
  • Registration
  • Security agreements
  • Security interests
• Securities 52
  • Appeals 2
  • BC Securities Commission 6
  • Disclosure 16
  • Due diligence 1
  • General 17
  • Hearings 4
  • Investigations 5
  • Judicial review 1
  • Local Policy Statements 3
  • National Registration Database
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
  • Offences 6
  • Orders 4
  • Practice 22
  • Private placement 3
  • Public offering 7
  • Regulation 13
  • Searches
  • Stockbrokers
  • Stock exchanges 8
  • Stock options
  • Takeover bids 5
  • Underwriters
• Solicitor 10
  • Conduct and the Law Society 3
  • Conflict of interest 1
  • Ethics 7
  • Solicitor-client privilege 2
• Tax 41
  • Aboriginal tax issues 5
  • Anti-avoidance rules
  • Appeals 1
  • Audits 2
  • Buying and selling a business
  • Capital gains 8
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 1
  • Collection practices and procedures
  • Corporate 9
  • Family law tax issues 2
  • Foreign income
  • General 1
  • Goods and Services Tax 2
  • Income splitting and attribution rules
  • Income tax 2
  • Intellectual property tax issues
  • Lawyers and law firms 1
  • Offshore taxation 1
  • Partnership 2
  • Pensions
  • Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 1
  • Practice 2
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 5
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 5
  • Reorganizations 3
  • Rollovers 3
  • Sales tax 2
  • Shares and shareholders 3
  • Tax litigation 2
  • Tax planning 7
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 16
• Technology Law 13
  • Intellectual property 5
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 2
  • Online contract formation
  • Practice 4
  • Privacy laws 4
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 1
  • Research 1
• Wills Estates and Trusts 174
  • Administration application 13
  • Adult guardianship 12
  • Charitable giving 1
  • Client Relations 27
  • Devolution of assets 13
  • Elder care 47
  • Estate litigation 34
  • Estate planning 71
  • Ethics 11
  • Executors and trustees 13
  • Fiduciary 2
  • General 10
  • Multijurisdictional estates 5
  • Probate application 8
  • Professional Responsibility 19
  • Tax issues 28
  • Trust planning 41
  • Wills 48
• Workers Compensation 21
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 1
  • Claims 17
  • General 12
  • Liability of employer 18
  • Procedure 6
  • Workers Compensation Board 1