Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 574
  • Business and aboriginal law 121
  • Child protection 105
  • Criminal justice system 98
  • Dispute resolution 9
  • Family law 79
  • General 213
  • Indian Act 32
  • Indian residential schools 14
  • Lands and title 223
  • Litigation 95
  • Practice 110
  • Rights 283
  • Self-government 163
  • Tax issues 18
  • Treaty Negotiations 61
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 17
  • Wills and estates 8
• Access to Justice 122
  • Children 55
  • General 47
  • Indigenous child welfare 65
  • Trauma-informed practice 74
• Administrative Law 348
  • Abuse of discretion 17
  • Appellate review 32
  • Bias and impartiality 1
  • Charter cases 34
  • Choice of forum 2
  • Discipline proceedings 60
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 21
  • Judicial review 147
  • Jurisdiction 55
  • Natural justice 31
  • Parties 6
  • Practice 128
  • Remedies 43
  • Self-represented parties 3
  • Standard of review 22
  • Tribunals 115
• ADR 356
  • Arbitration 133
  • Collaborative law 12
  • Judicial review 22
  • Mediation 123
  • Mediation--family law 65
  • Practice 139
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 101
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 25
  • Appeals 6
  • Directors liability 20
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 14
  • General 80
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 24
  • Priorities 30
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 28
  • Receiving orders 8
  • Settlements and preferences 20
  • Trustees 19
• Builders Liens 51
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien 1
  • Enforcement 9
  • General 18
  • Holdbacks 4
  • Priority of liens 4
  • Solicitors liability 3
  • Subcontractors 5
• Business Law 647
  • Acquisitions and mergers 84
  • Amalgamations 7
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law 17
  • 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 124
  • Corporate finance 44
  • Corporate governance 114
  • Corporate procedures 42
  • Directors 49
  • Dissolution and restoration 3
  • Ethics 29
  • Extra-provincial companies 5
  • Fiduciary 10
  • Franchising 8
  • Fraud 17
  • Incorporation and organization 44
  • International 12
  • Partnerships 48
  • Practice 93
  • Privacy 10
  • Professional Responsibility 52
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 51
  • Shareholder agreements 2
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 16
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 59
• Childrens Law 52
  • Access to justice for children 28
  • Child development 11
  • Child protection 36
  • Child rights 27
  • Indigenous child welfare 39
  • Trauma-informed practice 34
• Communications Law 18
• Constitutional Law 12
  • Charter 4
  • Division of powers 4
  • Indigenous 4
• Creditors Remedies 134
  • Acting for the creditor 66
  • Acting for the debtor 56
  • Assets subject to attachment 19
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 46
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 21
  • Consumer Protection 1
  • Equitable remedies 14
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 20
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 13
  • Postjudgment remedies 14
  • Prejudgment garnishment 14
  • Priorities 45
  • Proceeding to judgment 8
  • Promissory notes
  • Repairers liens 2
  • Searches 6
• Criminal Law 414
  • Anti-terrorism 19
  • Appeals 50
  • Charter of Rights 127
  • Client Relations 87
  • Defences 108
  • Domestic violence 36
  • Ethics 51
  • Evidence 180
  • Indigenous legal orders 49
  • Judicial interim release 38
  • Juries 26
  • Offences 135
  • Practice 197
  • Prison law 21
  • Professional Responsibility 107
  • Restorative justice 53
  • Sentencing 132
  • Trauma-informed practice 54
  • Young offenders 63
• Cultural Competency 61
  • Ethics 39
  • Professional responsibility 41
  • Trauma-informed practice 28
• Dispute Resolution 43
  • Arbitration 29
  • Choice of forum 7
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution 12
  • Mediation 15
  • Mediation—Family Law 3
  • Practice 25
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 33
  • Ethics 21
  • Professional responsibility 24
  • Trauma-informed practice 28
• Employment Law 526
  • Benefits 36
  • Client Relations 19
  • Compensation 46
  • Defamation 12
  • Discrimination 156
  • Duties and liabilities 110
  • Employment contracts 142
  • Employment standards 104
  • Ethics 12
  • General 215
  • Mandatory Retirement 11
  • Occupational health and safety 97
  • Pensions 27
  • Practice 123
  • Privacy 108
  • Professional Responsibility 26
  • Sexual harassment 49
  • Tax issues 8
  • Wrongful dismissal 173
• Environmental Law 168
  • Climate change 37
  • Conservation covenants 6
  • Contaminated sites 34
  • Endangered species 5
  • Environmental assessment 53
  • Environmental protection 109
  • Forest practices 8
  • Indigenous 40
  • Insurance 7
  • Liability 55
  • Waste management 3
• Family Law 643
  • Access to justice for children 10
  • Adoption 33
  • ADR 87
  • Advocacy 10
  • Appeals 7
  • Assessments and reports 15
  • Assisted reproductive technologies 12
  • Child abduction 1
  • Child development 6
  • Child protection 196
  • Child rights 15
  • Child support 118
  • Client Relations 162
  • Collaborative law 18
  • Common law spouses 20
  • Conflict of laws 15
  • Costs 10
  • Custody and access 149
  • Division of property 168
  • Divorce 38
  • Dispute resolution 10
  • Ethics 109
  • Evidence 102
  • Excluded property 16
  • Family law agreements 15
  • Family violence 22
  • Financial disclosure 13
  • General 143
  • Guardianship 103
  • Indigenous 5
  • Indigenous child welfare 31
  • Interim relief 36
  • Marriage 17
  • Marriage agreements 30
  • Mediation 52
  • Multiculturalism 54
  • Naming children 4
  • Orders 65
  • Parental alienation 6
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact 51
  • Pensions 14
  • Pleadings 111
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 18
  • Professional Responsibility 103
  • Property Agreements 22
  • Property Agreements 14
  • References to Registrar 4
  • Same-sex couples 21
  • Self-represented Litigants 8
  • Separation agreements 44
  • Significant unfairness 12
  • Spousal support 130
  • Tax issues 45
  • Trauma-informed practice 19
  • Trusts 14
  • Unjust enrichment 2
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 53
  • Valuation 17
  • Views of child 13
• FOI and Privacy 145
• Health Law 72
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 494
  • BCHRA 123
  • Charter 174
  • CHRA 33
  • Client Relations 33
  • Discrimination 256
  • Ethics 28
  • Ethics 17
  • General 223
  • Indigenous human rights 33
  • Procedure 90
  • Professional Responsibility 38
  • Remedies 49
  • Trauma-informed practice 12
• Immigration 245
  • Admission 114
  • Appeals 75
  • Business immigrants 61
  • Citizenship 25
  • Client Relations 45
  • Detention 15
  • Ethics 30
  • Extradition 20
  • Labour market impact assessment 15
  • Permanent residency 40
  • Policy 75
  • Practice 135
  • Professional Responsibility 31
  • Provincial nominee program 5
  • Refugees 94
  • Tax issues 7
  • Visas 45
  • Work permits 21
• Indigenous Legal Orders 209
  • Child welfare 49
  • Dispute resolution 57
  • Education 17
  • Elders 22
  • Family 30
  • Health 30
  • Intellectual property 18
  • International law 29
  • Lands and titles 44
  • Language 22
  • Legal orders 68
  • Natural resources 41
  • Sovereignty 74
  • Stewardship 49
  • Trauma-informed practice 58
• Insurance 259
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 25
  • Agents 13
  • Bad faith
  • Breach 1
  • Claims 84
  • Contracts 62
  • Damages 23
  • Defences 43
  • Directors and officers insurance 10
  • Duties and liabilities 27
  • Exclusions 46
  • Fire insurance 9
  • Homeowners insurance 24
  • Lawyers liability insurance 13
  • Liability insurance generally 67
  • Life insurance 15
  • Litigation 98
  • Local government
  • Motor vehicle insurance 37
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 10
  • Property and loss of income insurance 14
  • Strata 1
  • Subrogation 32
• Intellectual Property 64
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 17
  • Computer software and Internet issues 10
  • Copyright 22
  • Disputes 13
  • Licensing 12
  • Litigation 9
  • Patents 15
  • Remedies 11
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 23
  • Trade secrets 25
• Labour Law 185
  • Arbitration 95
  • Certification and decertification 15
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 27
  • Industrial disputes 7
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 38
  • Picketing 11
  • Practice 55
  • Successorship 9
  • Unfair labour practices 13
  • Unions 70
• Legal Research and Writing 46
• Legal Support Staff 317
  • Business law for LSS 19
  • Civil litigation for LSS 86
  • Collections for LSS 10
  • Conveyancing for LSS 28
  • Corporate records for LSS 11
  • Estate administration for LSS 26
  • Family law for LSS 51
  • Foreclosures for LSS 14
  • Paralegals 31
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 64
  • PPSA for LSS 10
  • Research for LSS 8
  • Securities for LSS 25
• Litigation 1641
  • Aboriginal litigation 50
  • Advocacy skills 166
  • Affidavits 11
  • Appeals 78
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 36
  • Causes of action 141
  • Chambers applications 104
  • Class actions 129
  • Client Relations 76
  • Commercial litigation 155
  • Conflict of laws 20
  • Constitutional 32
  • Costs 125
  • Damages 96
  • Defamation 36
  • Discovery 202
  • Economic Loss 3
  • Estate litigation 67
  • Ethics 141
  • Evidence 465
  • Experts 286
  • Host Liability 8
  • Infants 19
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
  • Intellectual property litigation 22
  • Juries 26
  • Jurisdiction 84
  • Labour and employment litigation 57
  • Law Reform 55
  • Limitation of actions 27
  • Limitation Periods 47
  • Local government 3
  • Municipal 23
  • Orders 33
  • Pleadings 194
  • Practice 423
  • Pre-judgment remedies 8
  • Pre-trial Procedures 124
  • Professional Responsibility 181
  • Real estate litigation 131
  • Registrar practice 7
  • Releases
  • Remedies 37
  • Reviews 15
  • Securities litigation 50
  • Self-represented litigants 7
  • Settlement 95
  • Summary trials 55
  • Tax issues for litigators 3
  • Tax litigation 4
  • Torts 110
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
  • Trials 215
  • Unrepresented Litigants 58
  • Vicarious liability 34
• Local Government 12
  • Building regulation
  • Bylaws 5
  • Contracts 1
  • Councils
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General 7
  • Land use planning 2
  • Licensing
  • Litigation 3
  • Taxation 1
  • Zoning 5
• Maritime Law 3
• Municipal Law 83
  • Actions by and against municipalities 7
  • Bylaws 16
  • Contracts 19
  • Development cost charges 1
  • Financial management 3
  • General 33
  • Land use planning 16
  • Licensing 6
  • Litigation 26
  • Municipal councils 12
  • Powers of municipality 26
  • Subdivision 15
  • Zoning 17
• 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 345
  • Client Relations 27
  • Costs 7
  • Damages 105
  • Defences 44
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 27
  • Experts 19
  • Family compensation claims 9
  • Host Liability 19
  • Injuries 98
  • Insurance 30
  • Mediation 20
  • Medical malpractice 8
  • Motor vehicle accidents 91
  • Occupiers liability 11
  • Part 7 benefits 37
  • Practice 146
  • Professional Responsibility 35
  • Structured settlements and judgments 18
  • Tax issues 7
  • Trauma-informed practice 7
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 816
  • Billing 74
  • Client development 102
  • Client Relations 306
  • Conduct and the Law Society 70
  • Document management 94
  • Employee hiring and retention 80
  • Ethics 345
  • In House Counsel 10
  • Insurance 22
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 126
  • Partnership issues 30
  • Professional Responsibility 130
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 8
  • Solicitor-client privilege 88
  • Technology 120
  • Trauma-informed practice 42
  • Trust accounting 33
  • Wellness 86
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 372
  • Client Relations 190
  • Ethics 304
  • Trauma-informed practice 35
• Real Estate 576
  • Affidavits 9
  • Agents and brokers 43
  • Assessment 41
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 28
  • Certificate of pending litigation 4
  • Charges on title 36
  • Client Relations 82
  • Closing procedures 36
  • Commercial leases 63
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 4
  • Construction contracts 92
  • Construction litigation 86
  • Conveyancing practice 84
  • Development cost charges 16
  • Development--general 105
  • Development rights 23
  • Easement 8
  • Environmental issues 24
  • Ethics 59
  • Expropriation 9
  • Financing 43
  • Foreclosure 53
  • Government approvals 13
  • Indian Act conveyancing 20
  • Land Title Office 43
  • Legal proceedings 136
  • Licensees 5
  • Manufactured homes 11
  • Mortgages 49
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 6
  • Professional Responsibility 65
  • Purchase contract 47
  • Residential tenancies 18
  • Searches and investigations 26
  • Site development control 4
  • Statements of adjustments 4
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 41
  • Strata plans 21
  • Strata properties--general 73
  • Structure of the developer 10
  • Subdivision 35
  • Surveys 10
  • Tax issues 86
  • Title 35
  • Undertakings 14
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 14
• School Law 53
• 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 215
  • Appeals 4
  • BC Securities Commission 43
  • Disclosure 81
  • Due diligence 9
  • General 102
  • Hearings 15
  • Investigations 25
  • Judicial review 4
  • Local Policy Statements 11
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 14
  • Offences 33
  • Orders 15
  • Practice 65
  • Private placement 22
  • Public offering 27
  • Regulation 65
  • Searches 4
  • Stockbrokers 7
  • Stock exchanges 34
  • Stock options 9
  • Takeover bids 31
  • Underwriters 4
• Solicitor 175
  • Conduct and the Law Society 42
  • Conflict of interest 37
  • Ethics 76
  • Solicitor-client privilege 59
• Strata Law 31
  • Insurance 2
  • Strata Corporations 19
  • Strata Plans 10
• Tax 181
  • Aboriginal tax issues 12
  • Anti-avoidance rules 3
  • Appeals 4
  • Audits 10
  • Buying and selling a business 8
  • Capital gains 12
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 9
  • Collection practices and procedures 2
  • Corporate 48
  • Family law tax issues 27
  • Foreign income 3
  • General 27
  • Goods and Services Tax 19
  • Income splitting and attribution rules 2
  • Income tax 23
  • Intellectual property tax issues 2
  • Lawyers and law firms 8
  • 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) 20
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 17
  • Reorganizations 9
  • Rollovers 10
  • Sales tax 15
  • Shares and shareholders 12
  • Tax litigation 8
  • Tax planning 14
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 51
• Technology Law 152
  • Intellectual property 23
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 13
  • Online contract formation 9
  • Practice 57
  • Privacy laws 55
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 18
  • Research 37
• Wills Estates and Trusts 416
  • Administration application 33
  • Adult guardianship 73
  • Charitable giving 12
  • Client Relations 93
  • Committeeship 12
  • Curative provisions 21
  • Devolution of assets 68
  • Elder care 165
  • Estate litigation 105
  • Estate planning 174
  • Ethics 50
  • Executors and trustees 62
  • Fiduciary 5
  • General 68
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 74
  • Life estate 3
  • Multijurisdictional estates 14
  • Passing of accounts 7
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 23
  • Practice 40
  • Probate application 36
  • Professional Responsibility 66
  • Rectifying wills 5
  • Representation agreement 14
  • Tax issues 99
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
  • Trust planning 129
  • Wills 94
  • Wills challenges 26
• Workers Compensation 101
  • Assessments 4
  • Benefits 10
  • Claims 58
  • General 55
  • Liability of employer 49
  • Procedure 42
  • Workers Compensation Board 16