Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 516
  • Business and aboriginal law 111
  • Child protection 91
  • Criminal justice system 81
  • Dispute resolution 9
  • Family law 64
  • General 199
  • Indian Act 27
  • Indian residential schools 12
  • Lands and title 199
  • Litigation 90
  • Practice 104
  • Rights 257
  • Self-government 153
  • Tax issues 16
  • Treaty Negotiations 60
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 17
  • Wills and estates 4
• Access to Justice 83
  • Children 38
  • General 47
  • Indigenous child welfare 41
  • Trauma-informed practice 46
• Administrative Law 321
  • Abuse of discretion 16
  • Appellate review 30
  • Bias and impartiality 1
  • Charter cases 32
  • Choice of forum
  • Discipline proceedings 53
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 21
  • Judicial review 138
  • Jurisdiction 45
  • Natural justice 31
  • Parties 3
  • Practice 122
  • Remedies 37
  • Self-represented parties 3
  • Standard of review 16
  • Tribunals 103
• ADR 341
  • Arbitration 131
  • Collaborative law 12
  • Judicial review 22
  • Mediation 120
  • Mediation--family law 65
  • Practice 124
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 87
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 17
  • Appeals 6
  • Directors liability 15
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 14
  • General 70
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 17
  • Priorities 28
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 24
  • Receiving orders 8
  • Settlements and preferences 19
  • Trustees 11
• Builders Liens 41
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien 1
  • Enforcement 8
  • General 17
  • Holdbacks 4
  • Priority of liens 4
  • Solicitors liability 3
  • Subcontractors 5
• Business Law 601
  • Acquisitions and mergers 70
  • Amalgamations 7
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law 9
  • Buying and selling a business 67
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 8
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 72
  • Client Relations 33
  • Commercial litigation 98
  • Competition law 24
  • Continuations 5
  • Contracts 104
  • Corporate finance 42
  • Corporate governance 114
  • Corporate procedures 42
  • Directors 48
  • Dissolution and restoration 3
  • Ethics 28
  • Extra-provincial companies 3
  • Fiduciary 10
  • Franchising 8
  • Fraud 14
  • Incorporation and organization 39
  • International 12
  • Partnerships 37
  • Practice 83
  • Privacy 10
  • Professional Responsibility 52
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 51
  • Shareholder agreements 1
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 16
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 54
• Childrens Law 30
  • Access to justice for children 15
  • Child development 9
  • Child protection 20
  • Child rights 14
  • Indigenous child welfare 28
  • Trauma-informed practice 24
• Communications Law 18
• Constitutional Law 2
  • Charter 2
  • Division of powers
  • Indigenous
• Creditors Remedies 109
  • Acting for the creditor 45
  • Acting for the debtor 34
  • Assets subject to attachment 16
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 26
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 12
  • Consumer Protection 1
  • Equitable remedies 7
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 17
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 10
  • Postjudgment remedies 13
  • Prejudgment garnishment 5
  • Priorities 28
  • Proceeding to judgment 5
  • Promissory notes
  • Repairers liens 2
  • Searches 5
• Criminal Law 373
  • Anti-terrorism 19
  • Appeals 50
  • Charter of Rights 115
  • Client Relations 68
  • Defences 73
  • Domestic violence 23
  • Ethics 44
  • Evidence 166
  • Indigenous legal orders 30
  • Judicial interim release 38
  • Juries 26
  • Offences 121
  • Practice 159
  • Prison law 21
  • Professional Responsibility 95
  • Restorative justice 37
  • Sentencing 101
  • Trauma-informed practice 35
  • Young offenders 63
• Cultural Competency 49
  • Ethics 37
  • Professional responsibility 37
  • Trauma-informed practice 21
• Dispute Resolution 34
  • Arbitration 28
  • Choice of forum 7
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution 7
  • Mediation 6
  • Mediation—Family Law 3
  • Practice 25
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 21
  • Ethics 21
  • Professional responsibility 21
  • Trauma-informed practice 21
• Employment Law 478
  • Benefits 34
  • Client Relations 14
  • Compensation 43
  • Defamation 12
  • Discrimination 151
  • Duties and liabilities 105
  • Employment contracts 122
  • Employment standards 95
  • Ethics 8
  • General 166
  • Mandatory Retirement 11
  • Occupational health and safety 93
  • Pensions 27
  • Practice 94
  • Privacy 105
  • Professional Responsibility 20
  • Sexual harassment 49
  • Tax issues 8
  • Wrongful dismissal 157
• Environmental Law 147
  • Climate change 22
  • Conservation covenants 6
  • Contaminated sites 34
  • Endangered species 5
  • Environmental assessment 47
  • Environmental protection 93
  • Forest practices 8
  • Indigenous 38
  • Insurance 7
  • Liability 40
  • Waste management 3
• Family Law 592
  • Access to justice for children 6
  • Adoption 33
  • ADR 87
  • Advocacy 8
  • Appeals 7
  • Assessments and reports 11
  • Assisted reproductive technologies 12
  • Child abduction 1
  • Child development 6
  • Child protection 183
  • Child rights 9
  • Child support 114
  • Client Relations 159
  • Collaborative law 18
  • Common law spouses 20
  • Conflict of laws 15
  • Costs 9
  • Custody and access 136
  • Division of property 152
  • Divorce 34
  • Dispute resolution 8
  • Ethics 105
  • Evidence 102
  • Excluded property 14
  • Family law agreements 5
  • Family violence 16
  • Financial disclosure 7
  • General 143
  • Guardianship 100
  • Indigenous 5
  • Indigenous child welfare 10
  • Interim relief 35
  • Marriage 17
  • Marriage agreements 30
  • Mediation 52
  • Multiculturalism 54
  • Naming children 4
  • Orders 62
  • Parental alienation 4
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact 39
  • Pensions 8
  • Pleadings 99
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 18
  • Professional Responsibility 98
  • Property Agreements 22
  • Property Agreements 14
  • References to Registrar 3
  • Same-sex couples 21
  • Self-represented Litigants 6
  • Separation agreements 44
  • Significant unfairness 10
  • Spousal support 127
  • Tax issues 40
  • Trauma-informed practice 16
  • Trusts 9
  • Unjust enrichment 2
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 53
  • Valuation 16
  • Views of child 5
• FOI and Privacy 145
• Health Law 72
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 468
  • BCHRA 101
  • Charter 171
  • CHRA 25
  • Client Relations 33
  • Discrimination 229
  • Ethics 28
  • Ethics 17
  • General 203
  • Indigenous human rights 20
  • Procedure 84
  • Professional Responsibility 32
  • Remedies 43
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
• Immigration 228
  • Admission 105
  • Appeals 67
  • Business immigrants 59
  • Citizenship 25
  • Client Relations 40
  • Detention 13
  • Ethics 23
  • Extradition 20
  • Labour market impact assessment 9
  • Permanent residency 40
  • Policy 68
  • Practice 119
  • Professional Responsibility 28
  • Provincial nominee program 3
  • Refugees 84
  • Tax issues 7
  • Visas 45
  • Work permits 14
• Indigenous Legal Orders 159
  • Child welfare 43
  • Dispute resolution 31
  • Education 14
  • Elders 13
  • Family 21
  • Health 23
  • Intellectual property 17
  • International law 23
  • Lands and titles 24
  • Language 16
  • Legal orders 49
  • Natural resources 35
  • Sovereignty 60
  • Stewardship 43
  • Trauma-informed practice 48
• Insurance 247
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 25
  • Agents 10
  • Bad faith
  • Breach
  • Claims 79
  • Contracts 57
  • Damages 23
  • Defences 41
  • Directors and officers insurance 10
  • Duties and liabilities 23
  • Exclusions 44
  • Fire insurance 9
  • Homeowners insurance 24
  • Lawyers liability insurance 13
  • Liability insurance generally 67
  • Life insurance 15
  • Litigation 87
  • Local government
  • Motor vehicle insurance 37
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 8
  • Property and loss of income insurance 14
  • Strata 1
  • Subrogation 31
• Intellectual Property 60
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 17
  • Computer software and Internet issues 10
  • Copyright 18
  • Disputes 12
  • Licensing 12
  • Litigation 9
  • Patents 15
  • Remedies 11
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 23
  • Trade secrets 25
• Labour Law 168
  • Arbitration 92
  • Certification and decertification 13
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 27
  • Industrial disputes 4
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 36
  • Picketing 11
  • Practice 39
  • Successorship 9
  • Unfair labour practices 13
  • Unions 64
• Legal Research and Writing 46
• Legal Support Staff 312
  • Business law for LSS 19
  • Civil litigation for LSS 86
  • Collections for LSS 10
  • Conveyancing for LSS 24
  • Corporate records for LSS 11
  • Estate administration for LSS 23
  • Family law for LSS 51
  • Foreclosures for LSS 14
  • Paralegals 28
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 65
  • PPSA for LSS 10
  • Research for LSS 8
  • Securities for LSS 25
• Litigation 1497
  • Aboriginal litigation 49
  • Advocacy skills 127
  • Affidavits 7
  • Appeals 68
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 16
  • Causes of action 136
  • Chambers applications 104
  • Class actions 125
  • Client Relations 65
  • Commercial litigation 133
  • Conflict of laws 20
  • Constitutional 32
  • Costs 120
  • Damages 88
  • Defamation 36
  • Discovery 190
  • Economic Loss 3
  • Estate litigation 66
  • Ethics 111
  • Evidence 434
  • Experts 272
  • Host Liability 8
  • Infants 19
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
  • Intellectual property litigation 22
  • Juries 26
  • Jurisdiction 79
  • Labour and employment litigation 57
  • Law Reform 49
  • Limitation of actions 27
  • Limitation Periods 47
  • Local government 3
  • Municipal 15
  • Orders 33
  • Pleadings 184
  • Practice 363
  • Pre-judgment remedies 3
  • Pre-trial Procedures 115
  • Professional Responsibility 141
  • Real estate litigation 112
  • Registrar practice 2
  • Releases
  • Remedies 29
  • Reviews 15
  • Securities litigation 35
  • Self-represented litigants 5
  • Settlement 95
  • Summary trials 46
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 4
  • Torts 100
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Trials 208
  • Unrepresented Litigants 58
  • Vicarious liability 30
• Local Government 6
  • Building regulation
  • Bylaws 5
  • Contracts 1
  • Councils
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General
  • Land use planning
  • Licensing
  • Litigation 1
  • Taxation
  • Zoning 1
• Maritime Law 3
• Municipal Law 71
  • Actions by and against municipalities 7
  • Bylaws 16
  • Contracts 11
  • Development cost charges 1
  • Financial management 3
  • General 29
  • Land use planning 16
  • Licensing 6
  • Litigation 16
  • Municipal councils 12
  • Powers of municipality 26
  • Subdivision 15
  • Zoning 13
• Natural Resources 153
  • Aboriginal rights 66
  • Fisheries law 32
  • Forestry law 60
  • General 34
  • Indigenous legal orders 22
  • Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship 36
  • Mining law 61
  • Oil and gas law 12
  • Water 9
  • Wildlife 10
• Personal Injury 325
  • Client Relations 27
  • Costs 7
  • Damages 98
  • Defences 43
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 24
  • Experts 7
  • Family compensation claims 9
  • Host Liability 19
  • Injuries 98
  • Insurance 30
  • Mediation 18
  • Medical malpractice 8
  • Motor vehicle accidents 91
  • Occupiers liability 11
  • Part 7 benefits 37
  • Practice 137
  • Professional Responsibility 32
  • Structured settlements and judgments 19
  • Tax issues 7
  • Trauma-informed practice 7
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 736
  • Billing 71
  • Client development 96
  • Client Relations 294
  • Conduct and the Law Society 57
  • Document management 92
  • Employee hiring and retention 74
  • Ethics 306
  • In House Counsel 10
  • Insurance 22
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 119
  • Partnership issues 27
  • Professional Responsibility 118
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 8
  • Solicitor-client privilege 83
  • Technology 101
  • Trauma-informed practice 33
  • Trust accounting 31
  • Wellness 70
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 353
  • Client Relations 183
  • Ethics 302
  • Trauma-informed practice 28
• Real Estate 534
  • Affidavits 1
  • Agents and brokers 32
  • Assessment 41
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 27
  • Certificate of pending litigation 4
  • Charges on title 31
  • Client Relations 44
  • Closing procedures 33
  • Commercial leases 59
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 4
  • Construction contracts 84
  • Construction litigation 71
  • Conveyancing practice 66
  • Development cost charges 15
  • Development--general 87
  • Development rights 17
  • Easement 2
  • Environmental issues 23
  • Ethics 53
  • Expropriation 5
  • Financing 27
  • Foreclosure 48
  • Government approvals 6
  • Indian Act conveyancing 8
  • Land Title Office 31
  • Legal proceedings 129
  • Licensees
  • Manufactured homes 11
  • Mortgages 36
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 4
  • Professional Responsibility 44
  • Purchase contract 42
  • Residential tenancies 16
  • Searches and investigations 23
  • Site development control 4
  • Statements of adjustments 3
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 32
  • Strata plans 21
  • Strata properties--general 64
  • Structure of the developer 2
  • Subdivision 30
  • Surveys 10
  • Tax issues 80
  • Title 33
  • Undertakings 12
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 10
• School Law 51
• Secured Transactions 41
  • Chattel mortgages 1
  • Conflict of laws 4
  • Debtor protection 8
  • Due diligence 9
  • Enforcement 5
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 5
  • General 23
  • Intellectual property 3
  • Loans 1
  • Mortgages 7
  • Perfection 4
  • Purchase money security interests 5
  • Receivers 1
  • Registration 14
  • Security agreements 17
  • Security interests 15
• Securities 194
  • Appeals 4
  • BC Securities Commission 36
  • Disclosure 70
  • Due diligence 9
  • General 85
  • Hearings 15
  • Investigations 22
  • Judicial review 4
  • Local Policy Statements 8
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 14
  • Offences 30
  • Orders 15
  • Practice 55
  • Private placement 14
  • Public offering 25
  • Regulation 56
  • Searches 4
  • Stockbrokers 3
  • Stock exchanges 31
  • Stock options 9
  • Takeover bids 30
  • Underwriters 4
• Solicitor 172
  • Conduct and the Law Society 42
  • Conflict of interest 36
  • Ethics 74
  • Solicitor-client privilege 59
• Strata Law 23
  • Insurance 1
  • Strata Corporations 12
  • Strata Plans 9
• Tax 168
  • Aboriginal tax issues 10
  • Anti-avoidance rules 1
  • Appeals 3
  • Audits 7
  • Buying and selling a business 7
  • Capital gains 12
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 9
  • Collection practices and procedures 2
  • Corporate 46
  • Family law tax issues 27
  • Foreign income 3
  • General 18
  • Goods and Services Tax 18
  • Income splitting and attribution rules 2
  • Income tax 22
  • Intellectual property tax issues 2
  • Lawyers and law firms 6
  • Offshore taxation 7
  • Partnership 3
  • Pensions 1
  • Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 4
  • Practice 7
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 17
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 15
  • Reorganizations 9
  • Rollovers 10
  • Sales tax 14
  • Shares and shareholders 11
  • Tax litigation 6
  • Tax planning 12
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 51
• Technology Law 149
  • Intellectual property 20
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 12
  • Online contract formation 9
  • Practice 53
  • Privacy laws 55
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 16
  • Research 37
• Wills Estates and Trusts 358
  • Administration application 32
  • Adult guardianship 68
  • Charitable giving 11
  • Client Relations 78
  • Committeeship 6
  • Curative provisions 14
  • Devolution of assets 54
  • Elder care 146
  • Estate litigation 94
  • Estate planning 160
  • Ethics 46
  • Executors and trustees 52
  • Fiduciary 5
  • General 66
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 41
  • Life estate 3
  • Multijurisdictional estates 14
  • Passing of accounts 3
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 12
  • Practice 23
  • Probate application 35
  • Professional Responsibility 58
  • Rectifying wills 5
  • Representation agreement 7
  • Tax issues 88
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
  • Trust planning 115
  • Wills 81
  • Wills challenges 12
• Workers Compensation 93
  • Assessments 4
  • Benefits 10
  • Claims 56
  • General 50
  • Liability of employer 47
  • Procedure 40
  • Workers Compensation Board 15