Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 395
  • Business and aboriginal law 52
  • Child protection 60
  • Criminal justice system 30
  • Family law 54
  • General 127
  • Lands and title 181
  • Litigation 76
  • Practice 74
  • Rights 170
  • Self-government 96
  • Tax issues 17
  • Treaty Negotiations 56
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 19
  • Wills and estates 2
• Administrative Law 294
  • Abuse of discretion 12
  • Appellate review 31
  • Charter cases 28
  • Discipline proceedings 48
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 26
  • Judicial review 132
  • Jurisdiction 31
  • Natural justice 26
  • Practice 102
  • Remedies 34
  • Tribunals 87
• ADR 288
  • Arbitration 112
  • Collaborative law 12
  • Judicial review 16
  • Mediation 97
  • Mediation--family law 60
  • Practice 69
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 76
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 13
  • Appeals 6
  • Directors liability 12
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 14
  • General 60
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 10
  • Priorities 26
  • Proposals 21
  • Receiving orders 7
  • Settlements and preferences 17
  • Trustees 11
• Builders Liens 27
• Business Law 590
  • Acquisitions and mergers 88
  • Amalgamations 8
  • Banking law 10
  • Buying and selling a business 68
  • Capital alterations 5
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 67
  • Client Relations 18
  • Commercial litigation 96
  • Competition law 23
  • Continuations 2
  • Contracts 87
  • Corporate finance 39
  • Corporate governance 100
  • Corporate procedures 40
  • Directors 33
  • Dissolution and restoration 2
  • Ethics 21
  • Extra-provincial companies 3
  • Fiduciary 10
  • Franchising 6
  • Fraud 11
  • Incorporation and organization 41
  • International 16
  • Partnerships 29
  • Practice 70
  • Privacy 21
  • Professional Responsibility 38
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 48
  • Shares 17
  • Tax issues 51
• Communications Law 20
• Creditors Remedies 85
  • Acting for the creditor 43
  • Acting for the debtor 35
  • Assets subject to attachment 13
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 19
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 1
  • Consumer Protection 1
  • Equitable remedies 6
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 15
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 4
  • Postjudgment remedies 10
  • Prejudgment garnishment 5
  • Priorities 26
  • Proceeding to judgment 3
  • Repairers liens
  • Searches 5
• Criminal Law 314
  • Anti-terrorism 1
  • Appeals 17
  • Charter of Rights 77
  • Client Relations 16
  • Defences 44
  • Ethics 25
  • Evidence 140
  • Judicial interim release 13
  • Juries 5
  • Offences 81
  • Practice 102
  • Professional Responsibility 52
  • Sentencing 72
  • Young offenders 30
• Employment Law 421
  • Benefits 24
  • Client Relations 12
  • Compensation 26
  • Defamation 9
  • Discrimination 141
  • Duties and liabilities 90
  • Employment contracts 103
  • Employment standards 76
  • Ethics 6
  • General 116
  • Mandatory Retirement 11
  • Occupational health and safety 78
  • Pensions 25
  • Practice 48
  • Privacy 101
  • Professional Responsibility 13
  • Sexual harassment 26
  • Tax issues 6
  • Wrongful dismissal 143
• Environmental Law 86
  • Conservation covenants 2
  • Contaminated sites 36
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 26
  • Environmental protection 35
  • Forest practices 4
  • Insurance 7
  • Liability 31
  • Waste management 3
• Family Law 523
  • Adoption 20
  • ADR 79
  • Advocacy 1
  • Appeals 4
  • Child protection 156
  • Child support 101
  • Client Relations 125
  • Collaborative law 20
  • Common law spouses 21
  • Conflict of laws 18
  • Costs 12
  • Custody and access 127
  • Division of property 130
  • Divorce 13
  • Ethics 89
  • Evidence 83
  • General 148
  • Guardianship 89
  • Interim relief 36
  • Marriage 7
  • Marriage agreements 29
  • Mediation 52
  • Multiculturalism 39
  • Naming children 4
  • Orders 42
  • Pensions 10
  • Pleadings 86
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 18
  • Professional Responsibility 82
  • Property Agreements 22
  • Property Agreements 14
  • References to Registrar 1
  • Same-sex couples 17
  • Separation agreements 29
  • Spousal support 106
  • Tax issues 35
  • Unrepresented Litigants 31
• FOI and Privacy 148
• Health Law 78
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 382
  • BCHRA 67
  • Charter 169
  • CHRA 23
  • Client Relations 5
  • Discrimination 189
  • Ethics 5
  • Ethics 3
  • General 112
  • Procedure 56
  • Professional Responsibility 4
  • Remedies 31
• Immigration 211
  • Admission 108
  • Appeals 56
  • Business immigrants 77
  • Citizenship 30
  • Client Relations 31
  • Ethics 31
  • Extradition 24
  • Permanent residency 29
  • Policy 79
  • Practice 101
  • Professional Responsibility 18
  • Refugees 84
  • Tax issues 14
  • Visas 43
• Insurance 220
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 21
  • Agents 8
  • Claims 59
  • Contracts 51
  • Damages 12
  • Defences 38
  • Directors and officers insurance 8
  • Duties and liabilities 26
  • Exclusions 34
  • Fire insurance 4
  • Homeowners insurance 21
  • Lawyers liability insurance 9
  • Liability insurance generally 62
  • Life insurance 18
  • Litigation 71
  • Motor vehicle insurance 37
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 10
  • Property and loss of income insurance 12
  • Subrogation 34
• Intellectual Property 59
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 19
  • Computer software and Internet issues 8
  • Copyright 19
  • Licensing 13
  • Patents 14
  • Remedies 11
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 23
  • Trade secrets 26
• Labour Law 159
  • Arbitration 91
  • Certification and decertification 11
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 23
  • Industrial disputes 3
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 33
  • Picketing 11
  • Practice 27
  • Successorship 7
  • Unfair labour practices 14
  • Unions 56
• Legal Research and Writing 47
• Legal Support Staff 301
  • Business law for LSS 20
  • Civil litigation for LSS 72
  • Collections for LSS 10
  • Conveyancing for LSS 24
  • Corporate records for LSS 11
  • Estate administration for LSS 23
  • Family law for LSS 55
  • Foreclosures for LSS 14
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 67
  • PPSA for LSS 10
  • Research for LSS 7
  • Securities for LSS 25
• Litigation 1426
  • Aboriginal litigation 47
  • Advocacy skills 95
  • Appeals 58
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 16
  • Causes of action 132
  • Chambers applications 87
  • Class actions 121
  • Client Relations 70
  • Commercial litigation 127
  • Conflict of laws 21
  • Constitutional 35
  • Costs 123
  • Damages 76
  • Defamation 35
  • Discovery 192
  • Economic Loss 3
  • Estate litigation 63
  • Ethics 117
  • Evidence 424
  • Experts 257
  • Host Liability 8
  • Infants 24
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 2
  • Intellectual property litigation 12
  • Juries 26
  • Jurisdiction 98
  • Labour and employment litigation 59
  • Law Reform 50
  • Limitation of actions 27
  • Limitation Periods 42
  • Municipal 15
  • Orders 29
  • Pleadings 180
  • Practice 338
  • Pre-trial Procedures 111
  • Professional Responsibility 141
  • Real estate litigation 103
  • Remedies 28
  • Reviews 10
  • Securities litigation 36
  • Settlement 98
  • Summary trials 55
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 4
  • Torts 83
  • Trials 207
  • Unrepresented Litigants 78
  • Vicarious liability 21
• Maritime Law 3
• Municipal Law 61
  • Actions by and against municipalities 5
  • Bylaws 11
  • Contracts 10
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management 3
  • General 27
  • Land use planning 12
  • Licensing 6
  • Litigation 16
  • Municipal councils 14
  • Powers of municipality 26
  • Subdivision 12
  • Zoning 8
• Natural Resources 110
  • Aboriginal rights 28
  • Fisheries law 3
  • Forestry law 29
  • General 20
  • Mining law 58
  • Oil and gas law 13
  • Water 3
  • Wildlife 2
• Personal Injury 307
  • Client Relations 26
  • Damages 93
  • Defences 37
  • Ethics 24
  • Family compensation claims 9
  • Host Liability 19
  • Injuries 88
  • Insurance 26
  • Mediation 18
  • Medical malpractice 9
  • Motor vehicle accidents 81
  • Occupiers liability 10
  • Part 7 benefits 35
  • Practice 127
  • Professional Responsibility 33
  • Structured settlements and judgments 20
  • Tax issues 8
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 539
  • Billing 67
  • Client development 45
  • Client Relations 203
  • Conduct and the Law Society 44
  • Document management 91
  • Employee hiring and retention 31
  • Ethics 235
  • In House Counsel 5
  • Insurance 15
  • Management and organization of firms 61
  • Partnership issues 21
  • Professional Responsibility 19
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 7
  • Solicitor-client privilege 67
  • Technology 64
  • Trust accounting 20
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 303
  • Client Relations 136
  • Ethics 262
• Real Estate 501
  • Agents and brokers 26
  • Assessment 44
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 14
  • Charges on title 15
  • Client Relations 42
  • Closing procedures 23
  • Commercial leases 48
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 76
  • Construction litigation 65
  • Conveyancing practice 44
  • Development cost charges 14
  • Development--general 95
  • Development rights 16
  • Environmental issues 20
  • Ethics 53
  • Expropriation 4
  • Financing 24
  • Foreclosure 43
  • Government approvals 4
  • Indian Act conveyancing 9
  • Land Title Office 29
  • Legal proceedings 114
  • Manufactured homes 7
  • Mortgages 31
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 3
  • Professional Responsibility 31
  • Purchase contract 34
  • Residential tenancies 19
  • Searches and investigations 16
  • Site development control 1
  • Statements of adjustments 1
  • Strata corporations 23
  • Strata plans 14
  • Strata properties--general 56
  • Structure of the developer 3
  • Subdivision 36
  • Surveys 10
  • Tax issues 81
  • Title 26
  • Undertakings 6
  • 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 12
  • 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 184
  • Appeals 4
  • BC Securities Commission 32
  • Disclosure 47
  • Due diligence 5
  • General 79
  • Hearings 14
  • Investigations 14
  • Judicial review 4
  • Local Policy Statements 4
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 11
  • Offences 29
  • Orders 6
  • Practice 49
  • Private placement 14
  • Public offering 21
  • Regulation 48
  • Searches 4
  • Stockbrokers 3
  • Stock exchanges 29
  • Stock options 9
  • Takeover bids 22
  • Underwriters 2
• Solicitor 183
  • Conduct and the Law Society 47
  • Conflict of interest 35
  • Ethics 74
  • Solicitor-client privilege 69
• Tax 162
  • Aboriginal tax issues 10
  • Anti-avoidance rules 1
  • Appeals 3
  • Audits 6
  • Buying and selling a business 8
  • Capital gains 12
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 5
  • Collection practices and procedures 3
  • Corporate 46
  • Family law tax issues 27
  • Foreign income 4
  • General 20
  • Goods and Services Tax 19
  • 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 2
  • Practice 14
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 18
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 14
  • Reorganizations 10
  • Rollovers 9
  • Sales tax 17
  • Shares and shareholders 12
  • Tax litigation 5
  • Tax planning 11
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 49
• Technology Law 136
  • Intellectual property 20
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 7
  • Online contract formation 6
  • Practice 56
  • Privacy laws 38
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 18
  • Research 31
• Wills Estates and Trusts 317
  • Administration application 31
  • Adult guardianship 64
  • Charitable giving 8
  • Client Relations 54
  • Devolution of assets 41
  • Elder care 126
  • Estate litigation 81
  • Estate planning 146
  • Ethics 36
  • Executors and trustees 41
  • Fiduciary 3
  • General 64
  • Multijurisdictional estates 15
  • Probate application 30
  • Professional Responsibility 50
  • Tax issues 70
  • Trust planning 102
  • Wills 65
• Workers Compensation 69
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 5
  • Claims 36
  • General 28
  • Liability of employer 39
  • Procedure 28
  • Workers Compensation Board 11