Practice Areas
-
Aboriginal Law
180
- Business and aboriginal law 31
- Child protection 39
- Criminal justice system 34
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 25
- General 86
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools 1
- Lands and title 56
- Litigation 11
- Practice 47
- Rights 79
- Self-government 47
- Tax issues 6
- Treaty Negotiations 4
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations
- Wills and estates 1
- Access to Justice 30
-
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 101
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 28
- Builders Liens 20
-
Business Law
289
- 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 26
- Client Relations 28
- Commercial litigation 28
- Competition law 1
- Continuations 2
- Contracts 35
- Corporate finance 40
- Corporate governance 42
- 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 43
- Privacy 3
- Professional Responsibility 37
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 10
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 5
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 16
- Childrens Law 10
- Communications Law
- Constitutional Law 1
-
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
107
- Anti-terrorism 13
- Appeals 10
- Charter of Rights 28
- Client Relations 16
- Defences 13
- Domestic violence 9
- Ethics 14
- Evidence 42
- Indigenous legal orders 10
- Judicial interim release 11
- Juries 8
- Offences 36
- Practice 28
- Prison law 8
- Professional Responsibility 39
- Restorative justice 8
- Sentencing 25
- Trauma-informed practice 9
- Young offenders 13
- Cultural Competency 20
- Dispute Resolution 1
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 8
-
Employment Law
185
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 13
- Defamation 2
- Discrimination 45
- Duties and liabilities 37
- Employment contracts 39
- Employment standards 26
- Ethics 4
- General 57
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 27
- Pensions 3
- Practice 39
- Privacy 25
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Sexual harassment 9
- Tax issues 4
- Wrongful dismissal 48
- Environmental Law 33
-
Family Law
319
- Access to justice for children 1
- Adoption 14
- ADR 30
- Advocacy 1
- Appeals 1
- Assessments and reports 3
- Assisted reproductive technologies 1
- Child abduction
- Child development 1
- Child protection 87
- Child rights 2
- Child support 43
- Client Relations 67
- Collaborative law 5
- Common law spouses
- Conflict of laws 4
- Costs 4
- Custody and access 66
- Division of property 57
- Divorce 12
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 49
- Evidence 40
- Excluded property 5
- Family law agreements
- Family violence 3
- Financial disclosure 1
- General 72
- Guardianship 53
- Indigenous 2
- Indigenous child welfare 3
- Interim relief 9
- Marriage 5
- Marriage agreements 7
- Mediation 14
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children 1
- Orders 36
- Parental alienation 2
- Parenting responsibilities and contact 21
- Pensions 4
- Pleadings 53
- Pre-nuptial agreements 3
- Professional Responsibility 36
- Property Agreements 4
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 7
- Self-represented Litigants 1
- Separation agreements 15
- Significant unfairness 4
- Spousal support 52
- Tax issues 9
- Trauma-informed practice 4
- Trusts 3
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 35
- Valuation 3
- Views of child 2
- FOI and Privacy 23
- Health Law 12
- Human Rights 162
-
Immigration
76
- Admission 25
- Appeals 27
- Business immigrants 11
- Citizenship 11
- Client Relations 14
- Detention 2
- Ethics 6
- Extradition 5
- Labour market impact assessment 2
- Permanent residency 15
- Policy 15
- Practice 52
- Professional Responsibility 9
- Provincial nominee program 1
- Refugees 29
- Tax issues
- Visas 6
- Work permits 4
- Indigenous Legal Orders 59
-
Insurance
82
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
- Agents 2
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 28
- Contracts 27
- Damages 5
- Defences 8
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 6
- Exclusions 14
- Fire insurance 4
- Homeowners insurance 6
- Lawyers liability insurance 2
- Liability insurance generally 15
- Life insurance 5
- Litigation 26
- Local government
- Motor vehicle insurance 13
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 2
- Property and loss of income insurance 4
- Strata
- Subrogation 5
- Intellectual Property 16
- Labour Law 49
- Legal Research and Writing 19
- Legal Support Staff 194
-
Litigation
671
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 48
- Affidavits
- Appeals 16
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 41
- 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 49
- Economic Loss
- Estate litigation 32
- Ethics 54
- Evidence 170
- Experts 105
- Host Liability
- Infants 6
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
- Intellectual property litigation 9
- 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 65
- Practice 142
- Pre-judgment remedies
- Pre-trial Procedures 31
- Professional Responsibility 85
- Real estate litigation 51
- Registrar practice
- Releases
- Remedies 12
- 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
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 24
- Natural Resources 53
-
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
291
- Billing 11
- Client development 18
- Client Relations 110
- Conduct and the Law Society 22
- Document management 22
- Employee hiring and retention 18
- Ethics 142
- In House Counsel 2
- Insurance 5
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 27
- Partnership issues 12
- Professional Responsibility 32
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 17
- Technology 26
- Trauma-informed practice 11
- Trust accounting 3
- Wellness 22
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 170
-
Real Estate
396
- 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 26
- Construction litigation 27
- 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 31
- Strata plans 8
- Strata properties--general 45
- 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
-
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
- Strata Law 24
-
Tax
79
- 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 4
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax 10
- Intellectual property tax issues
- Lawyers and law firms 1
- Offshore taxation 2
- Partnership 3
- 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) 5
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 8
- Reorganizations 3
- Rollovers 4
- Sales tax 4
- Shares and shareholders 5
- Tax litigation 2
- Tax planning 9
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 30
- Technology Law 37
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
305
- Administration application 17
- Adult guardianship 29
- Charitable giving 4
- Client Relations 44
- Committeeship 3
- Curative provisions 5
- Devolution of assets 34
- Elder care 70
- Estate litigation 72
- Estate planning 131
- Ethics 23
- Executors and trustees 29
- Fiduciary 4
- General 21
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues 12
- Life estate 1
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney 6
- Practice 1
- Probate application 17
- Professional Responsibility 33
- Rectifying wills 3
- Representation agreement 3
- Tax issues 51
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 66
- Wills 79
- Wills challenges 8
- Workers Compensation 26
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PRACTICE AREA
-
Aboriginal Law
180
- Business and aboriginal law 31
- Child protection 39
- Criminal justice system 34
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 25
- General 86
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools 1
- Lands and title 56
- Litigation 11
- Practice 47
- Rights 79
- Self-government 47
- Tax issues 6
- Treaty Negotiations 4
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations
- Wills and estates 1
- Access to Justice 30
-
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 101
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 28
- Builders Liens 20
-
Business Law
289
- 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 26
- Client Relations 28
- Commercial litigation 28
- Competition law 1
- Continuations 2
- Contracts 35
- Corporate finance 40
- Corporate governance 42
- 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 43
- Privacy 3
- Professional Responsibility 37
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 10
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 5
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 16
- Childrens Law 10
- Communications Law
- Constitutional Law 1
-
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
107
- Anti-terrorism 13
- Appeals 10
- Charter of Rights 28
- Client Relations 16
- Defences 13
- Domestic violence 9
- Ethics 14
- Evidence 42
- Indigenous legal orders 10
- Judicial interim release 11
- Juries 8
- Offences 36
- Practice 28
- Prison law 8
- Professional Responsibility 39
- Restorative justice 8
- Sentencing 25
- Trauma-informed practice 9
- Young offenders 13
- Cultural Competency 20
- Dispute Resolution 1
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 8
-
Employment Law
185
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 13
- Defamation 2
- Discrimination 45
- Duties and liabilities 37
- Employment contracts 39
- Employment standards 26
- Ethics 4
- General 57
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 27
- Pensions 3
- Practice 39
- Privacy 25
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Sexual harassment 9
- Tax issues 4
- Wrongful dismissal 48
- Environmental Law 33
-
Family Law
319
- Access to justice for children 1
- Adoption 14
- ADR 30
- Advocacy 1
- Appeals 1
- Assessments and reports 3
- Assisted reproductive technologies 1
- Child abduction
- Child development 1
- Child protection 87
- Child rights 2
- Child support 43
- Client Relations 67
- Collaborative law 5
- Common law spouses
- Conflict of laws 4
- Costs 4
- Custody and access 66
- Division of property 57
- Divorce 12
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 49
- Evidence 40
- Excluded property 5
- Family law agreements
- Family violence 3
- Financial disclosure 1
- General 72
- Guardianship 53
- Indigenous 2
- Indigenous child welfare 3
- Interim relief 9
- Marriage 5
- Marriage agreements 7
- Mediation 14
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children 1
- Orders 36
- Parental alienation 2
- Parenting responsibilities and contact 21
- Pensions 4
- Pleadings 53
- Pre-nuptial agreements 3
- Professional Responsibility 36
- Property Agreements 4
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 7
- Self-represented Litigants 1
- Separation agreements 15
- Significant unfairness 4
- Spousal support 52
- Tax issues 9
- Trauma-informed practice 4
- Trusts 3
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 35
- Valuation 3
- Views of child 2
- FOI and Privacy 23
- Health Law 12
- Human Rights 162
-
Immigration
76
- Admission 25
- Appeals 27
- Business immigrants 11
- Citizenship 11
- Client Relations 14
- Detention 2
- Ethics 6
- Extradition 5
- Labour market impact assessment 2
- Permanent residency 15
- Policy 15
- Practice 52
- Professional Responsibility 9
- Provincial nominee program 1
- Refugees 29
- Tax issues
- Visas 6
- Work permits 4
- Indigenous Legal Orders 59
-
Insurance
82
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
- Agents 2
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 28
- Contracts 27
- Damages 5
- Defences 8
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 6
- Exclusions 14
- Fire insurance 4
- Homeowners insurance 6
- Lawyers liability insurance 2
- Liability insurance generally 15
- Life insurance 5
- Litigation 26
- Local government
- Motor vehicle insurance 13
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 2
- Property and loss of income insurance 4
- Strata
- Subrogation 5
- Intellectual Property 16
- Labour Law 49
- Legal Research and Writing 19
- Legal Support Staff 194
-
Litigation
671
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 48
- Affidavits
- Appeals 16
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 41
- 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 49
- Economic Loss
- Estate litigation 32
- Ethics 54
- Evidence 170
- Experts 105
- Host Liability
- Infants 6
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
- Intellectual property litigation 9
- 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 65
- Practice 142
- Pre-judgment remedies
- Pre-trial Procedures 31
- Professional Responsibility 85
- Real estate litigation 51
- Registrar practice
- Releases
- Remedies 12
- 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
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 24
- Natural Resources 53
-
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
291
- Billing 11
- Client development 18
- Client Relations 110
- Conduct and the Law Society 22
- Document management 22
- Employee hiring and retention 18
- Ethics 142
- In House Counsel 2
- Insurance 5
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 27
- Partnership issues 12
- Professional Responsibility 32
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 17
- Technology 26
- Trauma-informed practice 11
- Trust accounting 3
- Wellness 22
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 170
-
Real Estate
396
- 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 26
- Construction litigation 27
- 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 31
- Strata plans 8
- Strata properties--general 45
- 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
-
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
- Strata Law 24
-
Tax
79
- 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 4
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax 10
- Intellectual property tax issues
- Lawyers and law firms 1
- Offshore taxation 2
- Partnership 3
- 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) 5
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 8
- Reorganizations 3
- Rollovers 4
- Sales tax 4
- Shares and shareholders 5
- Tax litigation 2
- Tax planning 9
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 30
- Technology Law 37
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
305
- Administration application 17
- Adult guardianship 29
- Charitable giving 4
- Client Relations 44
- Committeeship 3
- Curative provisions 5
- Devolution of assets 34
- Elder care 70
- Estate litigation 72
- Estate planning 131
- Ethics 23
- Executors and trustees 29
- Fiduciary 4
- General 21
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues 12
- Life estate 1
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney 6
- Practice 1
- Probate application 17
- Professional Responsibility 33
- Rectifying wills 3
- Representation agreement 3
- Tax issues 51
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 66
- Wills 79
- Wills challenges 8
- Workers Compensation 26
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