Practice Areas
-
Aboriginal Law
432
- Business and aboriginal law 84
- Child protection 72
- Criminal justice system 43
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 57
- General 174
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools
- Lands and title 191
- Litigation 74
- Practice 95
- Rights 212
- Self-government 128
- Tax issues 16
- Treaty Negotiations 54
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations 19
- Wills and estates 2
- Access to Justice
-
Administrative Law
285
- Abuse of discretion 11
- Appellate review 27
- Bias and impartiality
- Charter cases 21
- Choice of forum
- Discipline proceedings 48
- Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 21
- Judicial review 129
- Jurisdiction 35
- Natural justice 25
- Parties
- Practice 102
- Remedies 37
- Self-represented parties
- Standard of review
- Tribunals 92
- ADR 300
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 77
- Builders Liens 27
-
Business Law
574
- Acquisitions and mergers 69
- Amalgamations 11
- Asset purchase agreement
- Banking law 10
- Buying and selling a business 65
- Cannabis
- Capital alterations 6
- Charities and non-profit organizations 65
- Client Relations 32
- Commercial litigation 96
- Competition law 22
- Continuations 5
- Contracts 94
- Corporate finance 36
- Corporate governance 102
- Corporate procedures 43
- Directors 41
- Dissolution and restoration 3
- Ethics 26
- Extra-provincial companies 3
- Fiduciary 10
- Franchising 8
- Fraud 14
- Incorporation and organization 39
- International 15
- Partnerships 29
- Practice 69
- Privacy 10
- Professional Responsibility 48
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 47
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 17
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 46
- Childrens Law
- Communications Law 20
- Constitutional Law
-
Creditors Remedies
96
- Acting for the creditor 45
- Acting for the debtor 36
- Assets subject to attachment 16
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 22
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
- Consumer Protection 1
- Equitable remedies 6
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 16
- Injunctions and preservation orders 10
- Postjudgment remedies 13
- Prejudgment garnishment 5
- Priorities 28
- Proceeding to judgment 5
- Promissory notes
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 5
-
Criminal Law
315
- Anti-terrorism 15
- Appeals 17
- Charter of Rights 79
- Client Relations 22
- Defences 43
- Domestic violence
- Ethics 22
- Evidence 142
- Indigenous legal orders
- Judicial interim release 16
- Juries 5
- Offences 80
- Practice 93
- Prison law
- Professional Responsibility 55
- Restorative justice
- Sentencing 71
- Trauma-informed practice
- Young offenders 29
- Cultural Competency
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism
-
Employment Law
432
- Benefits 34
- Client Relations 14
- Compensation 42
- Defamation 9
- 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 100
- Professional Responsibility 20
- Sexual harassment 32
- Tax issues 8
- Wrongful dismissal 145
- Environmental Law 114
-
Family Law
542
- Access to justice for children
- Adoption 33
- ADR 83
- Advocacy
- Appeals 8
- Assessments and reports
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Child abduction
- Child development
- Child protection 171
- Child rights
- Child support 110
- Client Relations 136
- Collaborative law 18
- Common law spouses 20
- Conflict of laws 16
- Costs 10
- Custody and access 148
- Division of property 141
- Divorce 32
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 103
- Evidence 95
- Excluded property
- Family law agreements
- Family violence
- Financial disclosure
- General 143
- Guardianship 100
- Indigenous
- Indigenous child welfare
- Interim relief 35
- Marriage 10
- Marriage agreements 29
- Mediation 54
- Multiculturalism 54
- Naming children 4
- Orders 52
- Parental alienation
- Parenting responsibilities and contact
- Pensions 8
- Pleadings 96
- Pre-nuptial agreements 18
- Professional Responsibility 90
- Property Agreements 20
- Property Agreements 14
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 17
- Self-represented Litigants
- Separation agreements 42
- Significant unfairness
- Spousal support 118
- Tax issues 35
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trusts
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 61
- Valuation
- Views of child
- FOI and Privacy 139
- Health Law 76
- Human Rights 407
- Immigration 217
- Indigenous Legal Orders 19
-
Insurance
229
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 25
- Agents 8
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 69
- Contracts 54
- Damages 19
- Defences 38
- Directors and officers insurance 10
- Duties and liabilities 23
- Exclusions 41
- Fire insurance 9
- Homeowners insurance 24
- Lawyers liability insurance 10
- Liability insurance generally 63
- Life insurance 17
- Litigation 78
- Local government
- Motor vehicle insurance 34
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 9
- Property and loss of income insurance 14
- Strata
- Subrogation 31
- Intellectual Property 54
- Labour Law 155
- Legal Research and Writing 46
-
Legal Support Staff
297
- Business law for LSS 20
- Civil litigation for LSS 75
- Collections for LSS 10
- Conveyancing for LSS 24
- Corporate records for LSS 11
- Estate administration for LSS 23
- Family law for LSS 48
- Foreclosures for LSS 14
- Paralegals
- Personal injury practice for LSS 65
- PPSA for LSS 10
- Research for LSS 7
- Securities for LSS 25
-
Litigation
1406
- Aboriginal litigation 47
- Advocacy skills 104
- Affidavits
- Appeals 60
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 16
- Causes of action 123
- Chambers applications 102
- Class actions 115
- Client Relations 62
- Commercial litigation 130
- Conflict of laws 21
- Constitutional 30
- Costs 117
- Damages 75
- Defamation 33
- Discovery 184
- Economic Loss 2
- Estate litigation 63
- Ethics 119
- Evidence 427
- Experts 254
- Host Liability 8
- Infants 21
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
- Intellectual property litigation 12
- Juries 26
- Jurisdiction 84
- Labour and employment litigation 57
- Law Reform 49
- Limitation of actions 27
- Limitation Periods 42
- Local government
- Municipal 15
- Orders 29
- Pleadings 177
- Practice 318
- Pre-judgment remedies
- Pre-trial Procedures 116
- Professional Responsibility 147
- Real estate litigation 109
- Registrar practice
- Releases
- Remedies 28
- Reviews 10
- Securities litigation 33
- Self-represented litigants
- Settlement 94
- Summary trials 48
- Tax issues for litigators 1
- Tax litigation 4
- Torts 79
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trials 207
- Unrepresented Litigants 72
- Vicarious liability 21
- Local Government
- Maritime Law 3
- Municipal Law 66
- Natural Resources 134
-
Personal Injury
296
- Client Relations 26
- Costs
- Damages 91
- Defences 37
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 24
- Experts
- Family compensation claims 9
- Host Liability 19
- Injuries 81
- Insurance 25
- Mediation 18
- Medical malpractice 9
- Motor vehicle accidents 80
- Occupiers liability 10
- Part 7 benefits 35
- Practice 120
- Professional Responsibility 33
- Structured settlements and judgments 19
- Tax issues 7
- Trauma-informed practice
- Underinsured motorist protection
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
608
- Billing 65
- Client development 73
- Client Relations 235
- Conduct and the Law Society 51
- Document management 91
- Employee hiring and retention 52
- Ethics 265
- In House Counsel 5
- Insurance 18
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 76
- Partnership issues 20
- Professional Responsibility 35
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 8
- Solicitor-client privilege 76
- Technology 73
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust accounting 18
- Wellness
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 324
-
Real Estate
504
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers 26
- Assessment 44
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 20
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title 19
- Client Relations 38
- Closing procedures 30
- Commercial leases 55
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 4
- Construction contracts 77
- Construction litigation 59
- Conveyancing practice 56
- Development cost charges 14
- Development--general 83
- Development rights 16
- Easement
- Environmental issues 20
- Ethics 51
- Expropriation 5
- Financing 21
- Foreclosure 46
- Government approvals 6
- Indian Act conveyancing 8
- Land Title Office 29
- Legal proceedings 120
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 11
- Mortgages 31
- Owner developers and strata corporations 3
- Professional Responsibility 41
- Purchase contract 37
- Residential tenancies 18
- Searches and investigations 18
- Site development control 4
- Statements of adjustments 3
- Statutory declarations
- Strata corporations 26
- Strata plans 20
- Strata properties--general 59
- Structure of the developer 2
- Subdivision 30
- Surveys 7
- Tax issues 80
- Title 31
- Undertakings 11
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 7
- School Law 43
- Secured Transactions 33
-
Securities
183
- Appeals 4
- BC Securities Commission 27
- Disclosure 59
- Due diligence 7
- General 80
- Hearings 15
- Investigations 17
- Judicial review 4
- Local Policy Statements 6
- National Registration Database 1
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 11
- Offences 29
- Orders 9
- Practice 52
- Private placement 14
- Public offering 23
- Regulation 55
- Searches 4
- Stockbrokers 3
- Stock exchanges 28
- Stock options 9
- Takeover bids 27
- Underwriters 2
- Solicitor 180
- Strata Law
-
Tax
158
- 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 9
- 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) 20
- 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 128
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
324
- Administration application 29
- Adult guardianship 65
- Charitable giving 9
- Client Relations 60
- Committeeship
- Curative provisions 1
- Devolution of assets 47
- Elder care 134
- Estate litigation 82
- Estate planning 153
- Ethics 42
- Executors and trustees 43
- Fiduciary 5
- General 64
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues
- Life estate
- Multijurisdictional estates 14
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney
- Practice 1
- Probate application 28
- Professional Responsibility 52
- Rectifying wills
- Representation agreement
- Tax issues 74
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 102
- Wills 70
- Wills challenges 1
- Workers Compensation 75
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PRACTICE AREA
-
Aboriginal Law
432
- Business and aboriginal law 84
- Child protection 72
- Criminal justice system 43
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 57
- General 174
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools
- Lands and title 191
- Litigation 74
- Practice 95
- Rights 212
- Self-government 128
- Tax issues 16
- Treaty Negotiations 54
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations 19
- Wills and estates 2
- Access to Justice
-
Administrative Law
285
- Abuse of discretion 11
- Appellate review 27
- Bias and impartiality
- Charter cases 21
- Choice of forum
- Discipline proceedings 48
- Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 21
- Judicial review 129
- Jurisdiction 35
- Natural justice 25
- Parties
- Practice 102
- Remedies 37
- Self-represented parties
- Standard of review
- Tribunals 92
- ADR 300
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 77
- Builders Liens 27
-
Business Law
574
- Acquisitions and mergers 69
- Amalgamations 11
- Asset purchase agreement
- Banking law 10
- Buying and selling a business 65
- Cannabis
- Capital alterations 6
- Charities and non-profit organizations 65
- Client Relations 32
- Commercial litigation 96
- Competition law 22
- Continuations 5
- Contracts 94
- Corporate finance 36
- Corporate governance 102
- Corporate procedures 43
- Directors 41
- Dissolution and restoration 3
- Ethics 26
- Extra-provincial companies 3
- Fiduciary 10
- Franchising 8
- Fraud 14
- Incorporation and organization 39
- International 15
- Partnerships 29
- Practice 69
- Privacy 10
- Professional Responsibility 48
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 47
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 17
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 46
- Childrens Law
- Communications Law 20
- Constitutional Law
-
Creditors Remedies
96
- Acting for the creditor 45
- Acting for the debtor 36
- Assets subject to attachment 16
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 22
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
- Consumer Protection 1
- Equitable remedies 6
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 16
- Injunctions and preservation orders 10
- Postjudgment remedies 13
- Prejudgment garnishment 5
- Priorities 28
- Proceeding to judgment 5
- Promissory notes
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 5
-
Criminal Law
315
- Anti-terrorism 15
- Appeals 17
- Charter of Rights 79
- Client Relations 22
- Defences 43
- Domestic violence
- Ethics 22
- Evidence 142
- Indigenous legal orders
- Judicial interim release 16
- Juries 5
- Offences 80
- Practice 93
- Prison law
- Professional Responsibility 55
- Restorative justice
- Sentencing 71
- Trauma-informed practice
- Young offenders 29
- Cultural Competency
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism
-
Employment Law
432
- Benefits 34
- Client Relations 14
- Compensation 42
- Defamation 9
- 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 100
- Professional Responsibility 20
- Sexual harassment 32
- Tax issues 8
- Wrongful dismissal 145
- Environmental Law 114
-
Family Law
542
- Access to justice for children
- Adoption 33
- ADR 83
- Advocacy
- Appeals 8
- Assessments and reports
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Child abduction
- Child development
- Child protection 171
- Child rights
- Child support 110
- Client Relations 136
- Collaborative law 18
- Common law spouses 20
- Conflict of laws 16
- Costs 10
- Custody and access 148
- Division of property 141
- Divorce 32
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 103
- Evidence 95
- Excluded property
- Family law agreements
- Family violence
- Financial disclosure
- General 143
- Guardianship 100
- Indigenous
- Indigenous child welfare
- Interim relief 35
- Marriage 10
- Marriage agreements 29
- Mediation 54
- Multiculturalism 54
- Naming children 4
- Orders 52
- Parental alienation
- Parenting responsibilities and contact
- Pensions 8
- Pleadings 96
- Pre-nuptial agreements 18
- Professional Responsibility 90
- Property Agreements 20
- Property Agreements 14
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 17
- Self-represented Litigants
- Separation agreements 42
- Significant unfairness
- Spousal support 118
- Tax issues 35
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trusts
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 61
- Valuation
- Views of child
- FOI and Privacy 139
- Health Law 76
- Human Rights 407
- Immigration 217
- Indigenous Legal Orders 19
-
Insurance
229
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 25
- Agents 8
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 69
- Contracts 54
- Damages 19
- Defences 38
- Directors and officers insurance 10
- Duties and liabilities 23
- Exclusions 41
- Fire insurance 9
- Homeowners insurance 24
- Lawyers liability insurance 10
- Liability insurance generally 63
- Life insurance 17
- Litigation 78
- Local government
- Motor vehicle insurance 34
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 9
- Property and loss of income insurance 14
- Strata
- Subrogation 31
- Intellectual Property 54
- Labour Law 155
- Legal Research and Writing 46
-
Legal Support Staff
297
- Business law for LSS 20
- Civil litigation for LSS 75
- Collections for LSS 10
- Conveyancing for LSS 24
- Corporate records for LSS 11
- Estate administration for LSS 23
- Family law for LSS 48
- Foreclosures for LSS 14
- Paralegals
- Personal injury practice for LSS 65
- PPSA for LSS 10
- Research for LSS 7
- Securities for LSS 25
-
Litigation
1406
- Aboriginal litigation 47
- Advocacy skills 104
- Affidavits
- Appeals 60
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 16
- Causes of action 123
- Chambers applications 102
- Class actions 115
- Client Relations 62
- Commercial litigation 130
- Conflict of laws 21
- Constitutional 30
- Costs 117
- Damages 75
- Defamation 33
- Discovery 184
- Economic Loss 2
- Estate litigation 63
- Ethics 119
- Evidence 427
- Experts 254
- Host Liability 8
- Infants 21
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
- Intellectual property litigation 12
- Juries 26
- Jurisdiction 84
- Labour and employment litigation 57
- Law Reform 49
- Limitation of actions 27
- Limitation Periods 42
- Local government
- Municipal 15
- Orders 29
- Pleadings 177
- Practice 318
- Pre-judgment remedies
- Pre-trial Procedures 116
- Professional Responsibility 147
- Real estate litigation 109
- Registrar practice
- Releases
- Remedies 28
- Reviews 10
- Securities litigation 33
- Self-represented litigants
- Settlement 94
- Summary trials 48
- Tax issues for litigators 1
- Tax litigation 4
- Torts 79
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trials 207
- Unrepresented Litigants 72
- Vicarious liability 21
- Local Government
- Maritime Law 3
- Municipal Law 66
- Natural Resources 134
-
Personal Injury
296
- Client Relations 26
- Costs
- Damages 91
- Defences 37
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 24
- Experts
- Family compensation claims 9
- Host Liability 19
- Injuries 81
- Insurance 25
- Mediation 18
- Medical malpractice 9
- Motor vehicle accidents 80
- Occupiers liability 10
- Part 7 benefits 35
- Practice 120
- Professional Responsibility 33
- Structured settlements and judgments 19
- Tax issues 7
- Trauma-informed practice
- Underinsured motorist protection
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
608
- Billing 65
- Client development 73
- Client Relations 235
- Conduct and the Law Society 51
- Document management 91
- Employee hiring and retention 52
- Ethics 265
- In House Counsel 5
- Insurance 18
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 76
- Partnership issues 20
- Professional Responsibility 35
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 8
- Solicitor-client privilege 76
- Technology 73
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust accounting 18
- Wellness
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 324
-
Real Estate
504
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers 26
- Assessment 44
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 20
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title 19
- Client Relations 38
- Closing procedures 30
- Commercial leases 55
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 4
- Construction contracts 77
- Construction litigation 59
- Conveyancing practice 56
- Development cost charges 14
- Development--general 83
- Development rights 16
- Easement
- Environmental issues 20
- Ethics 51
- Expropriation 5
- Financing 21
- Foreclosure 46
- Government approvals 6
- Indian Act conveyancing 8
- Land Title Office 29
- Legal proceedings 120
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 11
- Mortgages 31
- Owner developers and strata corporations 3
- Professional Responsibility 41
- Purchase contract 37
- Residential tenancies 18
- Searches and investigations 18
- Site development control 4
- Statements of adjustments 3
- Statutory declarations
- Strata corporations 26
- Strata plans 20
- Strata properties--general 59
- Structure of the developer 2
- Subdivision 30
- Surveys 7
- Tax issues 80
- Title 31
- Undertakings 11
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 7
- School Law 43
- Secured Transactions 33
-
Securities
183
- Appeals 4
- BC Securities Commission 27
- Disclosure 59
- Due diligence 7
- General 80
- Hearings 15
- Investigations 17
- Judicial review 4
- Local Policy Statements 6
- National Registration Database 1
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 11
- Offences 29
- Orders 9
- Practice 52
- Private placement 14
- Public offering 23
- Regulation 55
- Searches 4
- Stockbrokers 3
- Stock exchanges 28
- Stock options 9
- Takeover bids 27
- Underwriters 2
- Solicitor 180
- Strata Law
-
Tax
158
- 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 9
- 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) 20
- 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 128
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
324
- Administration application 29
- Adult guardianship 65
- Charitable giving 9
- Client Relations 60
- Committeeship
- Curative provisions 1
- Devolution of assets 47
- Elder care 134
- Estate litigation 82
- Estate planning 153
- Ethics 42
- Executors and trustees 43
- Fiduciary 5
- General 64
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues
- Life estate
- Multijurisdictional estates 14
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney
- Practice 1
- Probate application 28
- Professional Responsibility 52
- Rectifying wills
- Representation agreement
- Tax issues 74
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 102
- Wills 70
- Wills challenges 1
- Workers Compensation 75
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