Practice Areas
-
Aboriginal Law
183
- Business and aboriginal law 31
- Child protection 39
- Criminal justice system 34
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 25
- General 87
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools 2
- Lands and title 56
- Litigation 12
- Practice 48
- Rights 81
- Self-government 48
- Tax issues 6
- Treaty Negotiations 4
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations
- Wills and estates 1
- Access to Justice 33
-
Administrative Law
145
- 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 78
- Jurisdiction 19
- Natural justice 9
- Parties 1
- Practice 72
- Remedies 23
- Self-represented parties 2
- Standard of review 13
- Tribunals 38
- ADR 103
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 36
- Builders Liens 20
-
Business Law
291
- 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 36
- Corporate finance 41
- Corporate governance 42
- 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 10
- Practice 44
- Privacy 3
- Professional Responsibility 39
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 10
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 5
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 16
- Childrens Law 11
- 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
113
- Anti-terrorism 13
- Appeals 16
- 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 34
- Prison law 8
- Professional Responsibility 39
- Restorative justice 8
- Sentencing 25
- Trauma-informed practice 9
- Young offenders 13
- Cultural Competency 20
- Dispute Resolution 2
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 8
-
Employment Law
189
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 13
- Defamation 2
- Discrimination 46
- Duties and liabilities 37
- Employment contracts 40
- Employment standards 26
- Ethics 4
- General 58
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 27
- Pensions 3
- Practice 39
- Privacy 26
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Sexual harassment 10
- Tax issues 4
- Wrongful dismissal 49
- Environmental Law 40
-
Family Law
326
- Access to justice for children 1
- Adoption 14
- ADR 30
- Advocacy 3
- Appeals 1
- Assessments and reports 3
- Assisted reproductive technologies 1
- Child abduction
- Child development 1
- Child protection 88
- Child rights 2
- Child support 44
- Client Relations 68
- Collaborative law 5
- Common law spouses
- Conflict of laws 4
- Costs 4
- Custody and access 66
- Division of property 58
- Divorce 12
- Dispute resolution 1
- Ethics 49
- Evidence 41
- Excluded property 6
- Family law agreements 1
- Family violence 4
- Financial disclosure 2
- General 73
- Guardianship 53
- Indigenous 2
- Indigenous child welfare 3
- Interim relief 9
- Marriage 6
- Marriage agreements 7
- Mediation 14
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children 1
- Orders 40
- Parental alienation 2
- Parenting responsibilities and contact 21
- Pensions 4
- Pleadings 56
- Pre-nuptial agreements 3
- Professional Responsibility 36
- Property Agreements 4
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 7
- Self-represented Litigants 2
- Separation agreements 15
- Significant unfairness 5
- Spousal support 54
- 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 25
- Health Law 14
- Human Rights 174
-
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 60
-
Insurance
83
- 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 2
- Liability insurance generally 16
- 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 50
- Legal Research and Writing 19
- Legal Support Staff 204
-
Litigation
719
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 62
- Affidavits 1
- Appeals 22
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 47
- Chambers applications 38
- Class actions 31
- Client Relations 25
- Commercial litigation 29
- Conflict of laws 2
- Constitutional 4
- Costs 43
- Damages 26
- Defamation 10
- Discovery 50
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 32
- Ethics 55
- Evidence 174
- Experts 115
- Host Liability
- Infants 6
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
- Intellectual property litigation 9
- Juries 6
- Jurisdiction 23
- 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 162
- Pre-judgment remedies 2
- Pre-trial Procedures 34
- Professional Responsibility 93
- 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 32
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Trials 62
- Unrepresented Litigants 17
- Vicarious liability 4
- Local Government
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 24
- Natural Resources 53
-
Personal Injury
138
- Client Relations 15
- Costs 1
- Damages 43
- Defences 18
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 10
- Experts
- Family compensation claims 3
- Host Liability 3
- Injuries 37
- Insurance 9
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice 2
- Motor vehicle accidents 30
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 15
- Practice 58
- Professional Responsibility 21
- Structured settlements and judgments 7
- Tax issues 2
- Trauma-informed practice
- Underinsured motorist protection
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
307
- Billing 11
- Client development 18
- Client Relations 112
- Conduct and the Law Society 22
- Document management 22
- Employee hiring and retention 23
- Ethics 145
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 5
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 31
- Partnership issues 14
- Professional Responsibility 36
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 17
- Technology 31
- Trauma-informed practice 11
- Trust accounting 3
- Wellness 26
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 171
-
Real Estate
404
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers 7
- Assessment 13
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 21
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title 11
- Client Relations 23
- 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 27
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 17
- Foreclosure 31
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 6
- Land Title Office 25
- Legal proceedings 63
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 3
- Mortgages 25
- Owner developers and strata corporations
- Professional Responsibility 37
- Purchase contract 26
- 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 46
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 11
- Surveys 2
- Tax issues 54
- Title 17
- Undertakings 6
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 3
- School Law 8
- 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 25
-
Tax
80
- 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 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) 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 40
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
326
- Administration application 17
- Adult guardianship 30
- Charitable giving 4
- Client Relations 54
- Committeeship 3
- Curative provisions 5
- Devolution of assets 38
- Elder care 72
- Estate litigation 73
- Estate planning 146
- Ethics 25
- Executors and trustees 30
- Fiduciary 4
- General 21
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues 18
- Life estate 1
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney 7
- Practice 4
- Probate application 18
- Professional Responsibility 37
- Rectifying wills 3
- Representation agreement 4
- Tax issues 62
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 71
- Wills 81
- Wills challenges 9
- Workers Compensation 26
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PRACTICE AREA
-
Aboriginal Law
183
- Business and aboriginal law 31
- Child protection 39
- Criminal justice system 34
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 25
- General 87
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools 2
- Lands and title 56
- Litigation 12
- Practice 48
- Rights 81
- Self-government 48
- Tax issues 6
- Treaty Negotiations 4
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations
- Wills and estates 1
- Access to Justice 33
-
Administrative Law
145
- 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 78
- Jurisdiction 19
- Natural justice 9
- Parties 1
- Practice 72
- Remedies 23
- Self-represented parties 2
- Standard of review 13
- Tribunals 38
- ADR 103
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 36
- Builders Liens 20
-
Business Law
291
- 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 36
- Corporate finance 41
- Corporate governance 42
- 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 10
- Practice 44
- Privacy 3
- Professional Responsibility 39
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 10
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 5
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 16
- Childrens Law 11
- 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
113
- Anti-terrorism 13
- Appeals 16
- 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 34
- Prison law 8
- Professional Responsibility 39
- Restorative justice 8
- Sentencing 25
- Trauma-informed practice 9
- Young offenders 13
- Cultural Competency 20
- Dispute Resolution 2
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 8
-
Employment Law
189
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 13
- Defamation 2
- Discrimination 46
- Duties and liabilities 37
- Employment contracts 40
- Employment standards 26
- Ethics 4
- General 58
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 27
- Pensions 3
- Practice 39
- Privacy 26
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Sexual harassment 10
- Tax issues 4
- Wrongful dismissal 49
- Environmental Law 40
-
Family Law
326
- Access to justice for children 1
- Adoption 14
- ADR 30
- Advocacy 3
- Appeals 1
- Assessments and reports 3
- Assisted reproductive technologies 1
- Child abduction
- Child development 1
- Child protection 88
- Child rights 2
- Child support 44
- Client Relations 68
- Collaborative law 5
- Common law spouses
- Conflict of laws 4
- Costs 4
- Custody and access 66
- Division of property 58
- Divorce 12
- Dispute resolution 1
- Ethics 49
- Evidence 41
- Excluded property 6
- Family law agreements 1
- Family violence 4
- Financial disclosure 2
- General 73
- Guardianship 53
- Indigenous 2
- Indigenous child welfare 3
- Interim relief 9
- Marriage 6
- Marriage agreements 7
- Mediation 14
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children 1
- Orders 40
- Parental alienation 2
- Parenting responsibilities and contact 21
- Pensions 4
- Pleadings 56
- Pre-nuptial agreements 3
- Professional Responsibility 36
- Property Agreements 4
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 7
- Self-represented Litigants 2
- Separation agreements 15
- Significant unfairness 5
- Spousal support 54
- 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 25
- Health Law 14
- Human Rights 174
-
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 60
-
Insurance
83
- 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 2
- Liability insurance generally 16
- 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 50
- Legal Research and Writing 19
- Legal Support Staff 204
-
Litigation
719
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 62
- Affidavits 1
- Appeals 22
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 47
- Chambers applications 38
- Class actions 31
- Client Relations 25
- Commercial litigation 29
- Conflict of laws 2
- Constitutional 4
- Costs 43
- Damages 26
- Defamation 10
- Discovery 50
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 32
- Ethics 55
- Evidence 174
- Experts 115
- Host Liability
- Infants 6
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
- Intellectual property litigation 9
- Juries 6
- Jurisdiction 23
- 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 162
- Pre-judgment remedies 2
- Pre-trial Procedures 34
- Professional Responsibility 93
- 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 32
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Trials 62
- Unrepresented Litigants 17
- Vicarious liability 4
- Local Government
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 24
- Natural Resources 53
-
Personal Injury
138
- Client Relations 15
- Costs 1
- Damages 43
- Defences 18
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 10
- Experts
- Family compensation claims 3
- Host Liability 3
- Injuries 37
- Insurance 9
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice 2
- Motor vehicle accidents 30
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 15
- Practice 58
- Professional Responsibility 21
- Structured settlements and judgments 7
- Tax issues 2
- Trauma-informed practice
- Underinsured motorist protection
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
307
- Billing 11
- Client development 18
- Client Relations 112
- Conduct and the Law Society 22
- Document management 22
- Employee hiring and retention 23
- Ethics 145
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 5
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 31
- Partnership issues 14
- Professional Responsibility 36
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 17
- Technology 31
- Trauma-informed practice 11
- Trust accounting 3
- Wellness 26
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 171
-
Real Estate
404
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers 7
- Assessment 13
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 21
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title 11
- Client Relations 23
- 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 27
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 17
- Foreclosure 31
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 6
- Land Title Office 25
- Legal proceedings 63
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 3
- Mortgages 25
- Owner developers and strata corporations
- Professional Responsibility 37
- Purchase contract 26
- 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 46
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 11
- Surveys 2
- Tax issues 54
- Title 17
- Undertakings 6
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 3
- School Law 8
- 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 25
-
Tax
80
- 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 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) 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 40
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
326
- Administration application 17
- Adult guardianship 30
- Charitable giving 4
- Client Relations 54
- Committeeship 3
- Curative provisions 5
- Devolution of assets 38
- Elder care 72
- Estate litigation 73
- Estate planning 146
- Ethics 25
- Executors and trustees 30
- Fiduciary 4
- General 21
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues 18
- Life estate 1
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney 7
- Practice 4
- Probate application 18
- Professional Responsibility 37
- Rectifying wills 3
- Representation agreement 4
- Tax issues 62
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 71
- Wills 81
- Wills challenges 9
- Workers Compensation 26
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