Practice Areas
-
Aboriginal Law
216
- Business and aboriginal law 34
- Child protection 44
- Criminal justice system 49
- Dispute resolution 2
- Family law 29
- General 95
- Indian Act 8
- Indian residential schools 6
- Lands and title 60
- Litigation 15
- Practice 52
- Rights 89
- Self-government 52
- Tax issues 7
- Treaty Negotiations 6
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations
- Wills and estates 1
- Access to Justice 40
-
Administrative Law
164
- Abuse of discretion 3
- Appellate review 24
- Bias and impartiality 1
- Charter cases 16
- Choice of forum
- Discipline proceedings 12
- Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 6
- Judicial review 84
- Jurisdiction 21
- Natural justice 13
- Parties 1
- Practice 82
- Remedies 25
- Self-represented parties 2
- Standard of review 16
- Tribunals 45
- ADR 113
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 39
- Builders Liens 22
-
Business Law
314
- 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 17
- Childrens Law 13
- Communications Law
- Constitutional Law 1
-
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 32
- Dispute Resolution 3
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 8
-
Employment Law
215
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 14
- Defamation 3
- Discrimination 49
- Duties and liabilities 39
- Employment contracts 47
- Employment standards 30
- Ethics 4
- General 75
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 34
- Pensions 3
- Practice 53
- Privacy 28
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Sexual harassment 14
- Tax issues 4
- Wrongful dismissal 56
- Environmental Law 44
-
Family Law
370
- 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 8
- 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
- Human Rights 192
-
Immigration
85
- Admission 28
- Appeals 34
- Business immigrants 11
- Citizenship 11
- Client Relations 15
- Detention 5
- Ethics 6
- Extradition 5
- Labour market impact assessment 3
- Permanent residency 16
- Policy 15
- Practice 61
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Provincial nominee program 1
- Refugees 33
- Tax issues
- Visas 6
- Work permits 5
- Indigenous Legal Orders 96
-
Insurance
93
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
- Agents 3
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 32
- 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 1
- Subrogation 5
- Intellectual Property 17
- Labour Law 52
- Legal Research and Writing 19
- Legal Support Staff 218
-
Litigation
771
- Aboriginal litigation 9
- Advocacy skills 66
- Affidavits 5
- Appeals 23
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 49
- Chambers applications 40
- Class actions 33
- Client Relations 26
- Commercial litigation 29
- Conflict of laws 2
- Constitutional 5
- Costs 44
- Damages 27
- Defamation 10
- Discovery 58
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 34
- Ethics 56
- Evidence 184
- 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 184
- Pre-judgment remedies 2
- Pre-trial Procedures 34
- Professional Responsibility 93
- Real estate litigation 60
- 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 33
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Trials 64
- Unrepresented Litigants 17
- Vicarious liability 5
- Local Government 6
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 32
- Natural Resources 58
-
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
345
- Billing 13
- Client development 23
- Client Relations 118
- Conduct and the Law Society 26
- Document management 23
- Employee hiring and retention 25
- Ethics 154
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 7
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 41
- Partnership issues 16
- Professional Responsibility 53
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 21
- Technology 41
- Trauma-informed practice 12
- Trust accounting 9
- Wellness 33
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 177
-
Real Estate
446
- Affidavits 1
- Agents and brokers 10
- Assessment 16
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 22
- Certificate of pending litigation 2
- Charges on title 17
- Client Relations 30
- Closing procedures 27
- Commercial leases 33
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 26
- Construction litigation 28
- Conveyancing practice 72
- Development cost charges 3
- Development--general 35
- Development rights 8
- Easement 1
- Environmental issues 6
- Ethics 32
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 25
- Foreclosure 35
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 6
- Land Title Office 29
- Legal proceedings 67
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 3
- Mortgages 30
- Owner developers and strata corporations 1
- Professional Responsibility 46
- Purchase contract 28
- Residential tenancies 5
- Searches and investigations 13
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 5
- Statutory declarations
- Strata corporations 33
- Strata plans 11
- Strata properties--general 52
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 18
- Surveys 4
- Tax issues 61
- Title 22
- Undertakings 9
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 6
- School Law 8
- Secured Transactions 23
-
Securities
72
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 10
- Disclosure 26
- Due diligence 2
- General 33
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 6
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements 4
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 6
- Orders 5
- Practice 28
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 8
- Regulation 15
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 10
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 6
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 25
- Strata Law 29
-
Tax
84
- 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 7
- 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) 8
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 11
- Reorganizations 3
- Rollovers 4
- Sales tax 6
- Shares and shareholders 5
- Tax litigation 3
- Tax planning 9
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 30
- Technology Law 52
-
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
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PRACTICE AREA
-
Aboriginal Law
216
- Business and aboriginal law 34
- Child protection 44
- Criminal justice system 49
- Dispute resolution 2
- Family law 29
- General 95
- Indian Act 8
- Indian residential schools 6
- Lands and title 60
- Litigation 15
- Practice 52
- Rights 89
- Self-government 52
- Tax issues 7
- Treaty Negotiations 6
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations
- Wills and estates 1
- Access to Justice 40
-
Administrative Law
164
- Abuse of discretion 3
- Appellate review 24
- Bias and impartiality 1
- Charter cases 16
- Choice of forum
- Discipline proceedings 12
- Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 6
- Judicial review 84
- Jurisdiction 21
- Natural justice 13
- Parties 1
- Practice 82
- Remedies 25
- Self-represented parties 2
- Standard of review 16
- Tribunals 45
- ADR 113
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 39
- Builders Liens 22
-
Business Law
314
- 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 17
- Childrens Law 13
- Communications Law
- Constitutional Law 1
-
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 32
- Dispute Resolution 3
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 8
-
Employment Law
215
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 14
- Defamation 3
- Discrimination 49
- Duties and liabilities 39
- Employment contracts 47
- Employment standards 30
- Ethics 4
- General 75
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 34
- Pensions 3
- Practice 53
- Privacy 28
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Sexual harassment 14
- Tax issues 4
- Wrongful dismissal 56
- Environmental Law 44
-
Family Law
370
- 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 8
- 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
- Human Rights 192
-
Immigration
85
- Admission 28
- Appeals 34
- Business immigrants 11
- Citizenship 11
- Client Relations 15
- Detention 5
- Ethics 6
- Extradition 5
- Labour market impact assessment 3
- Permanent residency 16
- Policy 15
- Practice 61
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Provincial nominee program 1
- Refugees 33
- Tax issues
- Visas 6
- Work permits 5
- Indigenous Legal Orders 96
-
Insurance
93
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
- Agents 3
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 32
- 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 1
- Subrogation 5
- Intellectual Property 17
- Labour Law 52
- Legal Research and Writing 19
- Legal Support Staff 218
-
Litigation
771
- Aboriginal litigation 9
- Advocacy skills 66
- Affidavits 5
- Appeals 23
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 49
- Chambers applications 40
- Class actions 33
- Client Relations 26
- Commercial litigation 29
- Conflict of laws 2
- Constitutional 5
- Costs 44
- Damages 27
- Defamation 10
- Discovery 58
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 34
- Ethics 56
- Evidence 184
- 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 184
- Pre-judgment remedies 2
- Pre-trial Procedures 34
- Professional Responsibility 93
- Real estate litigation 60
- 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 33
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Trials 64
- Unrepresented Litigants 17
- Vicarious liability 5
- Local Government 6
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 32
- Natural Resources 58
-
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
345
- Billing 13
- Client development 23
- Client Relations 118
- Conduct and the Law Society 26
- Document management 23
- Employee hiring and retention 25
- Ethics 154
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 7
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 41
- Partnership issues 16
- Professional Responsibility 53
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 21
- Technology 41
- Trauma-informed practice 12
- Trust accounting 9
- Wellness 33
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 177
-
Real Estate
446
- Affidavits 1
- Agents and brokers 10
- Assessment 16
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 22
- Certificate of pending litigation 2
- Charges on title 17
- Client Relations 30
- Closing procedures 27
- Commercial leases 33
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 26
- Construction litigation 28
- Conveyancing practice 72
- Development cost charges 3
- Development--general 35
- Development rights 8
- Easement 1
- Environmental issues 6
- Ethics 32
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 25
- Foreclosure 35
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 6
- Land Title Office 29
- Legal proceedings 67
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 3
- Mortgages 30
- Owner developers and strata corporations 1
- Professional Responsibility 46
- Purchase contract 28
- Residential tenancies 5
- Searches and investigations 13
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 5
- Statutory declarations
- Strata corporations 33
- Strata plans 11
- Strata properties--general 52
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 18
- Surveys 4
- Tax issues 61
- Title 22
- Undertakings 9
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 6
- School Law 8
- Secured Transactions 23
-
Securities
72
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 10
- Disclosure 26
- Due diligence 2
- General 33
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 6
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements 4
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 6
- Orders 5
- Practice 28
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 8
- Regulation 15
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 10
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 6
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 25
- Strata Law 29
-
Tax
84
- 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 7
- 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) 8
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 11
- Reorganizations 3
- Rollovers 4
- Sales tax 6
- Shares and shareholders 5
- Tax litigation 3
- Tax planning 9
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 30
- Technology Law 52
-
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
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