Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 444
  • Business and aboriginal law 74
  • Child protection 80
  • Criminal justice system 62
  • Dispute resolution
  • Family law 56
  • General 158
  • Indian Act
  • Indian residential schools 1
  • Lands and title 182
  • Litigation 74
  • Practice 93
  • Rights 214
  • Self-government 118
  • Tax issues 13
  • Treaty Negotiations 53
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 17
  • Wills and estates 4
• Access to Justice 59
  • Children 35
  • General 38
  • Indigenous child welfare 27
  • Trauma-informed practice 42
• Administrative Law 293
  • Abuse of discretion 11
  • Appellate review 26
  • Bias and impartiality
  • Charter cases 25
  • Choice of forum
  • Discipline proceedings 53
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 21
  • Judicial review 130
  • Jurisdiction 33
  • Natural justice 23
  • Parties
  • Practice 107
  • Remedies 35
  • Self-represented parties 2
  • Standard of review 9
  • Tribunals 93
• ADR 296
  • Arbitration 116
  • Collaborative law 13
  • Judicial review 16
  • Mediation 102
  • Mediation--family law 62
  • Practice 82
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 80
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 17
  • Appeals 6
  • Directors liability 13
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 14
  • General 63
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 12
  • Priorities 28
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 24
  • Receiving orders 6
  • Settlements and preferences 19
  • Trustees 11
• Builders Liens 33
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien 1
  • Enforcement 2
  • General 11
  • Holdbacks
  • Priority of liens 2
  • Solicitors liability
  • Subcontractors
• Business Law 552
  • Acquisitions and mergers 67
  • Amalgamations 7
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law 9
  • Buying and selling a business 67
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 6
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 65
  • Client Relations 31
  • Commercial litigation 98
  • Competition law 24
  • Continuations 5
  • Contracts 94
  • Corporate finance 36
  • Corporate governance 100
  • Corporate procedures 42
  • Directors 40
  • Dissolution and restoration 3
  • Ethics 25
  • Extra-provincial companies 3
  • Fiduciary 10
  • Franchising 8
  • Fraud 14
  • Incorporation and organization 39
  • International 12
  • Partnerships 29
  • Practice 64
  • Privacy 8
  • Professional Responsibility 45
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 44
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 14
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 46
• Childrens Law 22
  • Access to justice for children 14
  • Child development 9
  • Child protection 16
  • Child rights 8
  • Indigenous child welfare 22
  • Trauma-informed practice 21
• Communications Law 18
• Constitutional Law
  • Charter
  • Division of powers
  • Indigenous
• Creditors Remedies 97
  • Acting for the creditor 43
  • Acting for the debtor 33
  • Assets subject to attachment 16
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 25
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
  • Consumer Protection 1
  • Equitable remedies 6
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 16
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 9
  • Postjudgment remedies 13
  • Prejudgment garnishment 5
  • Priorities 27
  • Proceeding to judgment 4
  • Promissory notes
  • Repairers liens 1
  • Searches 5
• Criminal Law 316
  • Anti-terrorism 19
  • Appeals 35
  • Charter of Rights 96
  • Client Relations 38
  • Defences 59
  • Domestic violence 21
  • Ethics 41
  • Evidence 153
  • Indigenous legal orders 24
  • Judicial interim release 36
  • Juries 26
  • Offences 102
  • Practice 107
  • Prison law 21
  • Professional Responsibility 76
  • Restorative justice 21
  • Sentencing 90
  • Trauma-informed practice 22
  • Young offenders 49
• Cultural Competency 43
  • Ethics 37
  • Professional responsibility 37
  • Trauma-informed practice 21
• Dispute Resolution
  • Arbitration
  • Choice of forum
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution
  • Mediation
  • Mediation—Family Law
  • Practice
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 21
  • Ethics 21
  • Professional responsibility 21
  • Trauma-informed practice 21
• Employment Law 431
  • Benefits 34
  • Client Relations 14
  • Compensation 42
  • Defamation 8
  • Discrimination 141
  • Duties and liabilities 99
  • Employment contracts 109
  • Employment standards 88
  • Ethics 8
  • General 128
  • Mandatory Retirement 11
  • Occupational health and safety 80
  • Pensions 27
  • Practice 62
  • Privacy 99
  • Professional Responsibility 20
  • Sexual harassment 32
  • Tax issues 8
  • Wrongful dismissal 145
• Environmental Law 114
  • Climate change
  • Conservation covenants 2
  • Contaminated sites 33
  • Endangered species 5
  • Environmental assessment 43
  • Environmental protection 61
  • Forest practices 8
  • Indigenous 23
  • Insurance 7
  • Liability 33
  • Waste management 3
• Family Law 555
  • Access to justice for children 6
  • Adoption 33
  • ADR 85
  • Advocacy 1
  • Appeals 7
  • Assessments and reports 9
  • Assisted reproductive technologies
  • Child abduction
  • Child development 5
  • Child protection 182
  • Child rights 8
  • Child support 112
  • Client Relations 142
  • Collaborative law 18
  • Common law spouses 20
  • Conflict of laws 15
  • Costs 8
  • Custody and access 131
  • Division of property 145
  • Divorce 32
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 104
  • Evidence 97
  • Excluded property 5
  • Family law agreements
  • Family violence 6
  • Financial disclosure 2
  • General 137
  • Guardianship 100
  • Indigenous 4
  • Indigenous child welfare 5
  • Interim relief 34
  • Marriage 10
  • Marriage agreements 29
  • Mediation 52
  • Multiculturalism 54
  • Naming children 4
  • Orders 52
  • Parental alienation 1
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact 38
  • Pensions 8
  • Pleadings 91
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 18
  • Professional Responsibility 91
  • Property Agreements 20
  • Property Agreements 14
  • References to Registrar 1
  • Same-sex couples 17
  • Self-represented Litigants 2
  • Separation agreements 42
  • Significant unfairness 4
  • Spousal support 119
  • Tax issues 35
  • Trauma-informed practice 16
  • Trusts 5
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 53
  • Valuation 4
  • Views of child 3
• FOI and Privacy 139
• Health Law 67
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 407
  • BCHRA 87
  • Charter 164
  • CHRA 23
  • Client Relations 30
  • Discrimination 211
  • Ethics 26
  • Ethics 15
  • General 158
  • Indigenous human rights
  • Procedure 62
  • Professional Responsibility 30
  • Remedies 41
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Immigration 208
  • Admission 98
  • Appeals 56
  • Business immigrants 57
  • Citizenship 25
  • Client Relations 36
  • Detention 6
  • Ethics 21
  • Extradition 20
  • Labour market impact assessment 3
  • Permanent residency 30
  • Policy 68
  • Practice 104
  • Professional Responsibility 24
  • Provincial nominee program 3
  • Refugees 76
  • Tax issues 7
  • Visas 36
  • Work permits 3
• Indigenous Legal Orders 92
  • Child welfare 37
  • Dispute resolution 13
  • Education 12
  • Elders 12
  • Family 15
  • Health 14
  • Intellectual property 12
  • International law 14
  • Lands and titles 16
  • Language 12
  • Legal orders 31
  • Natural resources 31
  • Sovereignty 33
  • Stewardship 31
  • Trauma-informed practice 29
• Insurance 229
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 25
  • Agents 8
  • Bad faith
  • Breach
  • Claims 69
  • Contracts 53
  • Damages 19
  • Defences 38
  • Directors and officers insurance 10
  • Duties and liabilities 22
  • Exclusions 41
  • Fire insurance 9
  • Homeowners insurance 24
  • Lawyers liability insurance 9
  • Liability insurance generally 62
  • Life insurance 15
  • Litigation 78
  • Local government
  • Motor vehicle insurance 34
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 8
  • Property and loss of income insurance 14
  • Strata
  • Subrogation 31
• Intellectual Property 53
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 17
  • Computer software and Internet issues 8
  • Copyright 18
  • Disputes
  • Licensing 11
  • Litigation
  • Patents 13
  • Remedies 11
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 22
  • Trade secrets 25
• Labour Law 155
  • Arbitration 86
  • Certification and decertification 11
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 23
  • Industrial disputes 3
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 28
  • Picketing 11
  • Practice 27
  • Successorship 7
  • Unfair labour practices 13
  • Unions 55
• Legal Research and Writing 46
• Legal Support Staff 294
  • Business law for LSS 19
  • Civil litigation for LSS 75
  • Collections for LSS 10
  • Conveyancing for LSS 24
  • Corporate records for LSS 11
  • Estate administration for LSS 21
  • Family law for LSS 45
  • Foreclosures for LSS 14
  • Paralegals
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 65
  • PPSA for LSS 10
  • Research for LSS 7
  • Securities for LSS 25
• Litigation 1378
  • Aboriginal litigation 47
  • Advocacy skills 95
  • Affidavits
  • Appeals 57
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 16
  • Causes of action 120
  • Chambers applications 100
  • Class actions 115
  • Client Relations 54
  • Commercial litigation 130
  • Conflict of laws 20
  • Constitutional 30
  • Costs 116
  • Damages 74
  • Defamation 31
  • Discovery 173
  • Economic Loss 2
  • Estate litigation 63
  • Ethics 109
  • Evidence 415
  • Experts 250
  • Host Liability 8
  • Infants 19
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
  • Intellectual property litigation 12
  • Juries 25
  • Jurisdiction 78
  • Labour and employment litigation 57
  • Law Reform 44
  • Limitation of actions 27
  • Limitation Periods 42
  • Local government
  • Municipal 15
  • Orders 29
  • Pleadings 180
  • Practice 291
  • Pre-judgment remedies
  • Pre-trial Procedures 108
  • Professional Responsibility 127
  • Real estate litigation 108
  • Registrar practice
  • Releases
  • Remedies 28
  • Reviews 10
  • Securities litigation 33
  • Self-represented litigants
  • Settlement 93
  • Summary trials 45
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 4
  • Torts 80
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trials 204
  • Unrepresented Litigants 56
  • Vicarious liability 21
• Local Government
  • Building regulation
  • Bylaws
  • Contracts
  • Councils
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General
  • Land use planning
  • Licensing
  • Litigation
  • Taxation
  • Zoning
• Maritime Law 3
• Municipal Law 66
  • Actions by and against municipalities 5
  • Bylaws 11
  • Contracts 10
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management 3
  • General 27
  • Land use planning 16
  • Licensing 6
  • Litigation 16
  • Municipal councils 12
  • Powers of municipality 26
  • Subdivision 12
  • Zoning 11
• Natural Resources 133
  • Aboriginal rights 52
  • Fisheries law 26
  • Forestry law 57
  • General 30
  • Indigenous legal orders 22
  • Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship 24
  • Mining law 54
  • Oil and gas law 9
  • Water 7
  • Wildlife 6
• Personal Injury 300
  • Client Relations 25
  • Costs 2
  • Damages 91
  • Defences 37
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 24
  • Experts
  • Family compensation claims 9
  • Host Liability 19
  • Injuries 85
  • Insurance 25
  • Mediation 18
  • Medical malpractice 7
  • Motor vehicle accidents 82
  • Occupiers liability 10
  • Part 7 benefits 37
  • Practice 122
  • Professional Responsibility 31
  • Structured settlements and judgments 19
  • Tax issues 7
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 618
  • Billing 65
  • Client development 75
  • Client Relations 245
  • Conduct and the Law Society 53
  • Document management 90
  • Employee hiring and retention 52
  • Ethics 279
  • In House Counsel 7
  • Insurance 18
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 73
  • Partnership issues 20
  • Professional Responsibility 56
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 8
  • Solicitor-client privilege 74
  • Technology 75
  • Trauma-informed practice 28
  • Trust accounting 18
  • Wellness 45
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 334
  • Client Relations 169
  • Ethics 288
  • Trauma-informed practice 28
• Real Estate 502
  • Affidavits
  • Agents and brokers 27
  • Assessment 40
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 20
  • Certificate of pending litigation
  • Charges on title 19
  • Client Relations 33
  • Closing procedures 30
  • Commercial leases 58
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 4
  • Construction contracts 77
  • Construction litigation 61
  • Conveyancing practice 57
  • Development cost charges 14
  • Development--general 80
  • Development rights 16
  • Easement
  • Environmental issues 20
  • Ethics 46
  • Expropriation 5
  • Financing 22
  • Foreclosure 45
  • Government approvals 6
  • Indian Act conveyancing 8
  • Land Title Office 27
  • Legal proceedings 119
  • Licensees
  • Manufactured homes 11
  • Mortgages 31
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 3
  • Professional Responsibility 40
  • Purchase contract 37
  • Residential tenancies 13
  • Searches and investigations 18
  • Site development control 4
  • Statements of adjustments 3
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 26
  • Strata plans 17
  • Strata properties--general 59
  • Structure of the developer 2
  • Subdivision 26
  • Surveys 7
  • Tax issues 73
  • Title 27
  • Undertakings 11
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 7
• School Law 43
• Secured Transactions 33
  • Chattel mortgages 1
  • Conflict of laws 1
  • Debtor protection 7
  • Due diligence 6
  • Enforcement 4
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 4
  • General 15
  • Intellectual property 3
  • Loans 1
  • Mortgages 7
  • Perfection 1
  • Purchase money security interests 3
  • Receivers 1
  • Registration 11
  • Security agreements 11
  • Security interests 7
• Securities 177
  • Appeals 4
  • BC Securities Commission 27
  • Disclosure 59
  • Due diligence 7
  • General 73
  • Hearings 15
  • Investigations 16
  • Judicial review 4
  • Local Policy Statements 6
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 11
  • Offences 29
  • Orders 9
  • Practice 48
  • Private placement 14
  • Public offering 23
  • Regulation 54
  • Searches 4
  • Stockbrokers 3
  • Stock exchanges 28
  • Stock options 9
  • Takeover bids 27
  • Underwriters 2
• Solicitor 171
  • Conduct and the Law Society 42
  • Conflict of interest 35
  • Ethics 73
  • Solicitor-client privilege 59
• Strata Law 13
  • Insurance
  • Strata Corporations 1
  • Strata Plans 5
• Tax 156
  • Aboriginal tax issues 10
  • Anti-avoidance rules 1
  • Appeals 3
  • Audits 6
  • Buying and selling a business 7
  • Capital gains 12
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 4
  • Collection practices and procedures 2
  • Corporate 43
  • Family law tax issues 27
  • Foreign income 3
  • General 10
  • Goods and Services Tax 17
  • Income splitting and attribution rules 2
  • Income tax 19
  • Intellectual property tax issues 2
  • Lawyers and law firms 6
  • Offshore taxation 5
  • Partnership 3
  • Pensions 1
  • Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 4
  • Practice 6
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 17
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 14
  • Reorganizations 9
  • Rollovers 10
  • Sales tax 14
  • Shares and shareholders 10
  • Tax litigation 5
  • Tax planning 11
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 49
• Technology Law 131
  • Intellectual property 20
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 11
  • Online contract formation 6
  • Practice 44
  • Privacy laws 46
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 16
  • Research 31
• Wills Estates and Trusts 323
  • Administration application 29
  • Adult guardianship 65
  • Charitable giving 9
  • Client Relations 60
  • Committeeship 4
  • Curative provisions 5
  • Devolution of assets 47
  • Elder care 134
  • Estate litigation 82
  • Estate planning 150
  • Ethics 41
  • Executors and trustees 43
  • Fiduciary 5
  • General 61
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 18
  • Life estate 3
  • Multijurisdictional estates 14
  • Passing of accounts
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 7
  • Practice 1
  • Probate application 27
  • Professional Responsibility 52
  • Rectifying wills 3
  • Representation agreement 5
  • Tax issues 74
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trust planning 102
  • Wills 66
  • Wills challenges 7
• Workers Compensation 76
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 5
  • Claims 44
  • General 36
  • Liability of employer 42
  • Procedure 29
  • Workers Compensation Board 11