Practice Areas
-
Aboriginal Law
203
- Business and aboriginal law 31
- Child protection 43
- Criminal justice system 47
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 28
- General 89
- Indian Act 4
- Indian residential schools 4
- Lands and title 58
- Litigation 12
- Practice 49
- Rights 86
- Self-government 49
- Tax issues 6
- Treaty Negotiations 5
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations
- Wills and estates 1
- Access to Justice 38
-
Administrative Law
148
- Abuse of discretion 1
- Appellate review 21
- Bias and impartiality 1
- Charter cases 14
- Choice of forum
- Discipline proceedings 12
- Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 6
- Judicial review 79
- Jurisdiction 19
- Natural justice 9
- Parties 1
- Practice 72
- Remedies 23
- Self-represented parties 2
- Standard of review 13
- Tribunals 39
- ADR 104
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 39
- Builders Liens 20
-
Business Law
303
- Acquisitions and mergers 39
- 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 29
- Commercial litigation 28
- Competition law 1
- Continuations 2
- Contracts 39
- Corporate finance 41
- Corporate governance 43
- Corporate procedures 35
- Directors 11
- 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 3
- Professional Responsibility 39
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 13
- Shareholder agreements 1
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 6
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 16
- 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
132
- Anti-terrorism 13
- Appeals 16
- Charter of Rights 29
- Client Relations 32
- Defences 16
- Domestic violence 9
- Ethics 14
- Evidence 43
- Indigenous legal orders 12
- Judicial interim release 12
- Juries 8
- Offences 38
- Practice 51
- Prison law 8
- Professional Responsibility 46
- Restorative justice 20
- Sentencing 37
- Trauma-informed practice 20
- Young offenders 24
- Cultural Competency 29
- Dispute Resolution 2
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 8
-
Employment Law
207
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 13
- Defamation 2
- Discrimination 47
- Duties and liabilities 39
- Employment contracts 46
- Employment standards 30
- Ethics 4
- General 72
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 34
- Pensions 3
- Practice 53
- Privacy 28
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Sexual harassment 11
- Tax issues 4
- Wrongful dismissal 56
- Environmental Law 41
-
Family Law
360
- Access to justice for children 1
- Adoption 14
- ADR 32
- Advocacy 5
- Appeals 1
- Assessments and reports 4
- Assisted reproductive technologies 1
- Child abduction
- Child development 2
- Child protection 88
- Child rights 2
- Child support 48
- Client Relations 79
- 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 50
- Evidence 46
- Excluded property 8
- Family law agreements 1
- Family violence 6
- Financial disclosure 4
- General 77
- Guardianship 53
- Indigenous 2
- 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 7
- Self-represented Litigants 3
- Separation agreements 16
- Significant unfairness 7
- Spousal support 58
- Tax issues 13
- Trauma-informed practice 4
- Trusts 3
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 36
- Valuation 11
- Views of child 3
- FOI and Privacy 25
- Health Law 14
- Human Rights 178
-
Immigration
80
- Admission 26
- Appeals 31
- Business immigrants 11
- Citizenship 11
- Client Relations 15
- Detention 4
- Ethics 6
- Extradition 5
- Labour market impact assessment 3
- Permanent residency 15
- Policy 15
- Practice 56
- Professional Responsibility 9
- Provincial nominee program 1
- Refugees 31
- Tax issues
- Visas 6
- Work permits 5
- Indigenous Legal Orders 88
-
Insurance
85
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
- Agents 2
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 28
- Contracts 28
- Damages 6
- Defences 8
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 6
- Exclusions 15
- Fire insurance 4
- Homeowners insurance 6
- Lawyers liability insurance 3
- Liability insurance generally 17
- Life insurance 5
- Litigation 27
- 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 52
- Legal Research and Writing 19
- Legal Support Staff 218
-
Litigation
745
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 63
- Affidavits 1
- Appeals 23
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 48
- Chambers applications 39
- Class actions 31
- Client Relations 25
- Commercial litigation 29
- Conflict of laws 2
- Constitutional 4
- Costs 44
- Damages 26
- Defamation 10
- Discovery 51
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 34
- Ethics 55
- Evidence 177
- 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 172
- Pre-judgment remedies 2
- Pre-trial Procedures 34
- Professional Responsibility 93
- Real estate litigation 54
- 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 32
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Trials 62
- Unrepresented Litigants 17
- Vicarious liability 5
- Local Government 6
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 32
- Natural Resources 57
-
Personal Injury
144
- 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 9
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice 2
- Motor vehicle accidents 31
- 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
329
- Billing 12
- Client development 22
- Client Relations 113
- Conduct and the Law Society 26
- Document management 23
- Employee hiring and retention 24
- Ethics 147
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 7
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 41
- Partnership issues 16
- Professional Responsibility 45
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 17
- Technology 37
- Trauma-informed practice 11
- Trust accounting 5
- Wellness 32
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 171
-
Real Estate
424
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers 7
- Assessment 16
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 21
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title 11
- Client Relations 24
- Closing procedures 23
- Commercial leases 32
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 26
- Construction litigation 27
- Conveyancing practice 69
- Development cost charges 3
- Development--general 33
- Development rights 8
- Easement
- Environmental issues 4
- Ethics 30
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 18
- Foreclosure 35
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 6
- Land Title Office 25
- Legal proceedings 63
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 3
- Mortgages 27
- Owner developers and strata corporations 1
- Professional Responsibility 42
- Purchase contract 27
- Residential tenancies 4
- Searches and investigations 10
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 4
- Statutory declarations
- Strata corporations 32
- Strata plans 10
- Strata properties--general 52
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 17
- Surveys 2
- Tax issues 57
- Title 19
- Undertakings 7
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 5
- School Law 8
- Secured Transactions 23
-
Securities
66
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 8
- Disclosure 21
- Due diligence 2
- General 29
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 5
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements 4
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 6
- Orders 4
- Practice 24
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 8
- Regulation 14
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 10
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 6
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 24
- Strata Law 27
-
Tax
81
- 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 5
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax 10
- 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) 6
- 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 47
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
341
- Administration application 18
- Adult guardianship 30
- Charitable giving 4
- Client Relations 57
- Committeeship 4
- Curative provisions 5
- Devolution of assets 39
- Elder care 76
- Estate litigation 77
- Estate planning 149
- Ethics 25
- Executors and trustees 32
- Fiduciary 4
- General 26
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues 23
- Life estate 1
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Passing of accounts 1
- Pensions
- Power of attorney 9
- Practice 8
- Probate application 20
- Professional Responsibility 37
- Rectifying wills 3
- Representation agreement 5
- Tax issues 63
- Trauma-informed practice 1
- Trust planning 74
- Wills 90
- Wills challenges 10
- Workers Compensation 38
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PRACTICE AREA
-
Aboriginal Law
203
- Business and aboriginal law 31
- Child protection 43
- Criminal justice system 47
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 28
- General 89
- Indian Act 4
- Indian residential schools 4
- Lands and title 58
- Litigation 12
- Practice 49
- Rights 86
- Self-government 49
- Tax issues 6
- Treaty Negotiations 5
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations
- Wills and estates 1
- Access to Justice 38
-
Administrative Law
148
- Abuse of discretion 1
- Appellate review 21
- Bias and impartiality 1
- Charter cases 14
- Choice of forum
- Discipline proceedings 12
- Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 6
- Judicial review 79
- Jurisdiction 19
- Natural justice 9
- Parties 1
- Practice 72
- Remedies 23
- Self-represented parties 2
- Standard of review 13
- Tribunals 39
- ADR 104
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 39
- Builders Liens 20
-
Business Law
303
- Acquisitions and mergers 39
- 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 29
- Commercial litigation 28
- Competition law 1
- Continuations 2
- Contracts 39
- Corporate finance 41
- Corporate governance 43
- Corporate procedures 35
- Directors 11
- 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 3
- Professional Responsibility 39
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 13
- Shareholder agreements 1
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 6
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 16
- 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
132
- Anti-terrorism 13
- Appeals 16
- Charter of Rights 29
- Client Relations 32
- Defences 16
- Domestic violence 9
- Ethics 14
- Evidence 43
- Indigenous legal orders 12
- Judicial interim release 12
- Juries 8
- Offences 38
- Practice 51
- Prison law 8
- Professional Responsibility 46
- Restorative justice 20
- Sentencing 37
- Trauma-informed practice 20
- Young offenders 24
- Cultural Competency 29
- Dispute Resolution 2
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 8
-
Employment Law
207
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 13
- Defamation 2
- Discrimination 47
- Duties and liabilities 39
- Employment contracts 46
- Employment standards 30
- Ethics 4
- General 72
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 34
- Pensions 3
- Practice 53
- Privacy 28
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Sexual harassment 11
- Tax issues 4
- Wrongful dismissal 56
- Environmental Law 41
-
Family Law
360
- Access to justice for children 1
- Adoption 14
- ADR 32
- Advocacy 5
- Appeals 1
- Assessments and reports 4
- Assisted reproductive technologies 1
- Child abduction
- Child development 2
- Child protection 88
- Child rights 2
- Child support 48
- Client Relations 79
- 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 50
- Evidence 46
- Excluded property 8
- Family law agreements 1
- Family violence 6
- Financial disclosure 4
- General 77
- Guardianship 53
- Indigenous 2
- 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 7
- Self-represented Litigants 3
- Separation agreements 16
- Significant unfairness 7
- Spousal support 58
- Tax issues 13
- Trauma-informed practice 4
- Trusts 3
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 36
- Valuation 11
- Views of child 3
- FOI and Privacy 25
- Health Law 14
- Human Rights 178
-
Immigration
80
- Admission 26
- Appeals 31
- Business immigrants 11
- Citizenship 11
- Client Relations 15
- Detention 4
- Ethics 6
- Extradition 5
- Labour market impact assessment 3
- Permanent residency 15
- Policy 15
- Practice 56
- Professional Responsibility 9
- Provincial nominee program 1
- Refugees 31
- Tax issues
- Visas 6
- Work permits 5
- Indigenous Legal Orders 88
-
Insurance
85
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
- Agents 2
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 28
- Contracts 28
- Damages 6
- Defences 8
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 6
- Exclusions 15
- Fire insurance 4
- Homeowners insurance 6
- Lawyers liability insurance 3
- Liability insurance generally 17
- Life insurance 5
- Litigation 27
- 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 52
- Legal Research and Writing 19
- Legal Support Staff 218
-
Litigation
745
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 63
- Affidavits 1
- Appeals 23
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 48
- Chambers applications 39
- Class actions 31
- Client Relations 25
- Commercial litigation 29
- Conflict of laws 2
- Constitutional 4
- Costs 44
- Damages 26
- Defamation 10
- Discovery 51
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 34
- Ethics 55
- Evidence 177
- 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 172
- Pre-judgment remedies 2
- Pre-trial Procedures 34
- Professional Responsibility 93
- Real estate litigation 54
- 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 32
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Trials 62
- Unrepresented Litigants 17
- Vicarious liability 5
- Local Government 6
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 32
- Natural Resources 57
-
Personal Injury
144
- 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 9
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice 2
- Motor vehicle accidents 31
- 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
329
- Billing 12
- Client development 22
- Client Relations 113
- Conduct and the Law Society 26
- Document management 23
- Employee hiring and retention 24
- Ethics 147
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 7
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 41
- Partnership issues 16
- Professional Responsibility 45
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 17
- Technology 37
- Trauma-informed practice 11
- Trust accounting 5
- Wellness 32
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 171
-
Real Estate
424
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers 7
- Assessment 16
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 21
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title 11
- Client Relations 24
- Closing procedures 23
- Commercial leases 32
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 26
- Construction litigation 27
- Conveyancing practice 69
- Development cost charges 3
- Development--general 33
- Development rights 8
- Easement
- Environmental issues 4
- Ethics 30
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 18
- Foreclosure 35
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 6
- Land Title Office 25
- Legal proceedings 63
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 3
- Mortgages 27
- Owner developers and strata corporations 1
- Professional Responsibility 42
- Purchase contract 27
- Residential tenancies 4
- Searches and investigations 10
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 4
- Statutory declarations
- Strata corporations 32
- Strata plans 10
- Strata properties--general 52
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 17
- Surveys 2
- Tax issues 57
- Title 19
- Undertakings 7
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 5
- School Law 8
- Secured Transactions 23
-
Securities
66
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 8
- Disclosure 21
- Due diligence 2
- General 29
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 5
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements 4
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 6
- Orders 4
- Practice 24
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 8
- Regulation 14
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 10
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 6
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 24
- Strata Law 27
-
Tax
81
- 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 5
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax 10
- 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) 6
- 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 47
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
341
- Administration application 18
- Adult guardianship 30
- Charitable giving 4
- Client Relations 57
- Committeeship 4
- Curative provisions 5
- Devolution of assets 39
- Elder care 76
- Estate litigation 77
- Estate planning 149
- Ethics 25
- Executors and trustees 32
- Fiduciary 4
- General 26
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues 23
- Life estate 1
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Passing of accounts 1
- Pensions
- Power of attorney 9
- Practice 8
- Probate application 20
- Professional Responsibility 37
- Rectifying wills 3
- Representation agreement 5
- Tax issues 63
- Trauma-informed practice 1
- Trust planning 74
- Wills 90
- Wills challenges 10
- Workers Compensation 38
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