Practice Areas
-
Aboriginal Law
201
- Business and aboriginal law 35
- Child protection 42
- Criminal justice system 34
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 27
- General 92
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools 1
- Lands and title 65
- Litigation 15
- Practice 53
- Rights 87
- Self-government 56
- Tax issues 9
- Treaty Negotiations 5
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations 5
- Wills and estates 1
- Access to Justice 29
-
Administrative Law
147
- 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 1
- Standard of review 10
- Tribunals 44
- ADR 110
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 31
- Builders Liens 21
-
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
- Communications Law 10
- Constitutional Law
-
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 10
- 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 20
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 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
-
Family Law
335
- Access to justice for children 1
- Adoption 14
- ADR 31
- Advocacy
- Appeals 3
- Assessments and reports 3
- 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 68
- Division of property 55
- Divorce 12
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 50
- Evidence 42
- Excluded property 2
- Family law agreements
- Family violence 2
- Financial disclosure 1
- General 77
- Guardianship 54
- Indigenous 2
- Indigenous child welfare 3
- Interim relief 11
- Marriage 3
- Marriage agreements 7
- Mediation 15
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children 1
- Orders 36
- Parental alienation 1
- Parenting responsibilities and contact 17
- 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 1
- Separation agreements 17
- Significant unfairness 1
- Spousal support 51
- Tax issues 8
- Trauma-informed practice 4
- Trusts 1
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 40
- Valuation
- Views of child 1
- FOI and Privacy 24
- Health Law 19
- Human Rights 159
-
Immigration
83
- Admission 30
- Appeals 30
- Business immigrants 16
- Citizenship 13
- Client Relations 18
- Detention 2
- Ethics 11
- Extradition 6
- Labour market impact assessment 1
- Permanent residency 12
- Policy 17
- Practice 60
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Provincial nominee program 1
- Refugees 31
- Tax issues 1
- Visas 9
- Work permits 1
- Indigenous Legal Orders 51
-
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
- Labour Law 45
- Legal Research and Writing 24
- Legal Support Staff 210
-
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
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 24
- Natural Resources 60
-
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 16
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 194
-
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
-
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
- Strata Law 14
-
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
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
311
- Administration application 20
- Adult guardianship 29
- Charitable giving 3
- Client Relations 44
- Committeeship 3
- Curative provisions 5
- 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 11
- Life estate 1
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney 6
- Practice 1
- Probate application 20
- Professional Responsibility 33
- Rectifying wills 3
- Representation agreement 3
- Tax issues 50
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 65
- Wills 82
- Wills challenges 7
- Workers Compensation 27
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PRACTICE AREA
-
Aboriginal Law
201
- Business and aboriginal law 35
- Child protection 42
- Criminal justice system 34
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 27
- General 92
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools 1
- Lands and title 65
- Litigation 15
- Practice 53
- Rights 87
- Self-government 56
- Tax issues 9
- Treaty Negotiations 5
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations 5
- Wills and estates 1
- Access to Justice 29
-
Administrative Law
147
- 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 1
- Standard of review 10
- Tribunals 44
- ADR 110
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 31
- Builders Liens 21
-
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
- Communications Law 10
- Constitutional Law
-
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 10
- 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 20
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 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
-
Family Law
335
- Access to justice for children 1
- Adoption 14
- ADR 31
- Advocacy
- Appeals 3
- Assessments and reports 3
- 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 68
- Division of property 55
- Divorce 12
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 50
- Evidence 42
- Excluded property 2
- Family law agreements
- Family violence 2
- Financial disclosure 1
- General 77
- Guardianship 54
- Indigenous 2
- Indigenous child welfare 3
- Interim relief 11
- Marriage 3
- Marriage agreements 7
- Mediation 15
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children 1
- Orders 36
- Parental alienation 1
- Parenting responsibilities and contact 17
- 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 1
- Separation agreements 17
- Significant unfairness 1
- Spousal support 51
- Tax issues 8
- Trauma-informed practice 4
- Trusts 1
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 40
- Valuation
- Views of child 1
- FOI and Privacy 24
- Health Law 19
- Human Rights 159
-
Immigration
83
- Admission 30
- Appeals 30
- Business immigrants 16
- Citizenship 13
- Client Relations 18
- Detention 2
- Ethics 11
- Extradition 6
- Labour market impact assessment 1
- Permanent residency 12
- Policy 17
- Practice 60
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Provincial nominee program 1
- Refugees 31
- Tax issues 1
- Visas 9
- Work permits 1
- Indigenous Legal Orders 51
-
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
- Labour Law 45
- Legal Research and Writing 24
- Legal Support Staff 210
-
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
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 24
- Natural Resources 60
-
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 16
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 194
-
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
-
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
- Strata Law 14
-
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
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
311
- Administration application 20
- Adult guardianship 29
- Charitable giving 3
- Client Relations 44
- Committeeship 3
- Curative provisions 5
- 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 11
- Life estate 1
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney 6
- Practice 1
- Probate application 20
- Professional Responsibility 33
- Rectifying wills 3
- Representation agreement 3
- Tax issues 50
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 65
- Wills 82
- Wills challenges 7
- Workers Compensation 27
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