Practice Areas
-
Aboriginal Law
127
- Business and aboriginal law 20
- Child protection 10
- Criminal justice system 13
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 10
- General 32
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools
- Lands and title 74
- Litigation 24
- Practice 15
- Rights 46
- Self-government 31
- Tax issues 10
- Treaty Negotiations 25
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations 7
- Wills and estates 3
- Access to Justice 3
-
Administrative Law
83
- Abuse of discretion 5
- Appellate review 16
- Bias and impartiality
- Charter cases 19
- Choice of forum
- Discipline proceedings 11
- Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 8
- Judicial review 58
- Jurisdiction 18
- Natural justice 15
- Parties
- Practice 28
- Remedies 19
- Self-represented parties
- Standard of review 1
- Tribunals 37
- ADR 124
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 36
- Builders Liens 18
-
Business Law
219
- Acquisitions and mergers 18
- Amalgamations 5
- Asset purchase agreement
- Banking law 3
- Buying and selling a business 29
- Cannabis
- Capital alterations 4
- Charities and non-profit organizations 15
- Client Relations 15
- Commercial litigation 22
- Competition law 6
- Continuations 3
- Contracts 33
- Corporate finance 24
- Corporate governance 32
- Corporate procedures 34
- Directors 18
- Dissolution and restoration 3
- Ethics 13
- Extra-provincial companies 3
- Fiduciary 7
- Franchising 4
- Fraud 12
- Incorporation and organization 21
- International 7
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 21
- Privacy 7
- Professional Responsibility 17
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 19
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 11
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 25
- Childrens Law 2
- Communications Law 1
- Constitutional Law
-
Creditors Remedies
39
- Acting for the creditor 18
- Acting for the debtor 15
- Assets subject to attachment 9
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 10
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 3
- Consumer Protection 1
- Equitable remedies 6
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 11
- Injunctions and preservation orders 7
- Postjudgment remedies 12
- Prejudgment garnishment 7
- Priorities 12
- Proceeding to judgment 4
- Promissory notes
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 4
-
Criminal Law
61
- Anti-terrorism 3
- Appeals 8
- Charter of Rights 26
- Client Relations 8
- Defences 11
- Domestic violence 1
- Ethics 11
- Evidence 33
- Indigenous legal orders 2
- Judicial interim release 7
- Juries 3
- Offences 25
- Practice 20
- Prison law 1
- Professional Responsibility 16
- Restorative justice 1
- Sentencing 20
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Young offenders 5
- Cultural Competency 2
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 1
-
Employment Law
100
- Benefits 15
- Client Relations 7
- Compensation 14
- Defamation 5
- Discrimination 58
- Duties and liabilities 32
- Employment contracts 34
- Employment standards 34
- Ethics 4
- General 34
- Mandatory Retirement 9
- Occupational health and safety 30
- Pensions 14
- Practice 13
- Privacy 42
- Professional Responsibility 7
- Sexual harassment 17
- Tax issues 5
- Wrongful dismissal 39
- Environmental Law 33
-
Family Law
155
- Access to justice for children 1
- Adoption 5
- ADR 41
- Advocacy
- Appeals 6
- Assessments and reports
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Child abduction
- Child development 1
- Child protection 35
- Child rights 1
- Child support 55
- Client Relations 33
- Collaborative law 11
- Common law spouses 10
- Conflict of laws 7
- Costs 7
- Custody and access 53
- Division of property 64
- Divorce 14
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 34
- Evidence 36
- Excluded property
- Family law agreements
- Family violence
- Financial disclosure
- General 32
- Guardianship 26
- Indigenous
- Indigenous child welfare 1
- Interim relief 22
- Marriage 7
- Marriage agreements 21
- Mediation 23
- Multiculturalism 10
- Naming children 2
- Orders 19
- Parental alienation
- Parenting responsibilities and contact
- Pensions 9
- Pleadings 36
- Pre-nuptial agreements 12
- Professional Responsibility 29
- Property Agreements 9
- Property Agreements 8
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 6
- Self-represented Litigants
- Separation agreements 19
- Significant unfairness
- Spousal support 59
- Tax issues 14
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Trusts
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 22
- Valuation
- Views of child
- FOI and Privacy 64
- Health Law 22
- Human Rights 117
- Immigration 52
- Indigenous Legal Orders 5
-
Insurance
89
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 11
- Agents 4
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 27
- Contracts 28
- Damages 11
- Defences 20
- Directors and officers insurance 8
- Duties and liabilities 12
- Exclusions 17
- Fire insurance 5
- Homeowners insurance 16
- Lawyers liability insurance 7
- Liability insurance generally 31
- Life insurance 9
- Litigation 32
- Local government
- Motor vehicle insurance 19
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 5
- Property and loss of income insurance 7
- Strata
- Subrogation 17
- Intellectual Property 25
- Labour Law 38
- Legal Research and Writing 11
-
Legal Support Staff
95
- Business law for LSS 15
- Civil litigation for LSS 20
- Collections for LSS 3
- Conveyancing for LSS 8
- Corporate records for LSS 7
- Estate administration for LSS 10
- Family law for LSS 16
- Foreclosures for LSS 3
- Paralegals
- Personal injury practice for LSS 11
- PPSA for LSS 2
- Research for LSS 7
- Securities for LSS 7
-
Litigation
453
- Aboriginal litigation 18
- Advocacy skills 34
- Affidavits
- Appeals 25
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
- Causes of action 39
- Chambers applications 55
- Class actions 53
- Client Relations 27
- Commercial litigation 30
- Conflict of laws 6
- Constitutional 9
- Costs 98
- Damages 35
- Defamation 8
- Discovery 89
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 31
- Ethics 54
- Evidence 139
- Experts 105
- Host Liability 3
- Infants 6
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
- Intellectual property litigation 6
- Juries 22
- Jurisdiction 39
- Labour and employment litigation 18
- Law Reform 13
- Limitation of actions 11
- Limitation Periods 16
- Local government
- Municipal 11
- Orders 16
- Pleadings 81
- Practice 98
- Pre-judgment remedies
- Pre-trial Procedures 49
- Professional Responsibility 56
- Real estate litigation 34
- Registrar practice
- Releases
- Remedies 5
- Reviews 6
- Securities litigation 6
- Self-represented litigants
- Settlement 62
- Summary trials 26
- Tax issues for litigators 1
- Tax litigation 3
- Torts 23
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trials 86
- Unrepresented Litigants 46
- Vicarious liability 13
- Local Government
- Maritime Law 2
- Municipal Law 24
- Natural Resources 23
-
Personal Injury
67
- Client Relations 12
- Costs 1
- Damages 34
- Defences 19
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 10
- Experts
- Family compensation claims 6
- Host Liability 6
- Injuries 34
- Insurance 18
- Mediation 10
- Medical malpractice 5
- Motor vehicle accidents 34
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 25
- Practice 37
- Professional Responsibility 13
- Structured settlements and judgments 12
- Tax issues 7
- Trauma-informed practice
- Underinsured motorist protection
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
284
- Billing 37
- Client development 32
- Client Relations 96
- Conduct and the Law Society 37
- Document management 53
- Employee hiring and retention 21
- Ethics 129
- In House Counsel 4
- Insurance 16
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 30
- Partnership issues 6
- Professional Responsibility 13
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
- Solicitor-client privilege 34
- Technology 39
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Trust accounting 10
- Wellness 2
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 165
-
Real Estate
165
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers 5
- Assessment 12
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 7
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title 13
- Client Relations 23
- Closing procedures 22
- Commercial leases 31
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 27
- Construction litigation 25
- Conveyancing practice 23
- Development cost charges 5
- Development--general 31
- Development rights 9
- Easement
- Environmental issues 14
- Ethics 28
- Expropriation 4
- Financing 20
- Foreclosure 20
- Government approvals 3
- Indian Act conveyancing 12
- Land Title Office 22
- Legal proceedings 48
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 6
- Mortgages 33
- Owner developers and strata corporations 2
- Professional Responsibility 20
- Purchase contract 27
- Residential tenancies 10
- Searches and investigations 10
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 4
- Statutory declarations
- Strata corporations 19
- Strata plans 11
- Strata properties--general 41
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 10
- Surveys 3
- Tax issues 48
- Title 14
- Undertakings 7
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 4
- School Law 12
- Secured Transactions 14
-
Securities
43
- Appeals 3
- BC Securities Commission 11
- Disclosure 25
- Due diligence 5
- General 25
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 5
- Judicial review 5
- Local Policy Statements 3
- National Registration Database 1
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 12
- Orders 6
- Practice 11
- Private placement 11
- Public offering 11
- Regulation 21
- Searches 2
- Stockbrokers 1
- Stock exchanges 11
- Stock options 5
- Takeover bids 13
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 88
- Strata Law
-
Tax
99
- Aboriginal tax issues 7
- Anti-avoidance rules 1
- Appeals 3
- Audits 5
- Buying and selling a business 6
- Capital gains 7
- Charities and non-profit organizations 3
- Collection practices and procedures 1
- Corporate 18
- Family law tax issues 10
- Foreign income 3
- General 5
- Goods and Services Tax 18
- Income splitting and attribution rules 2
- Income tax 8
- Intellectual property tax issues 2
- Lawyers and law firms 6
- Offshore taxation 4
- Partnership 2
- Pensions 1
- Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 3
- Practice 6
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 15
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 11
- Reorganizations 3
- Rollovers 5
- Sales tax 13
- Shares and shareholders 5
- Tax litigation 5
- Tax planning 6
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 34
- Technology Law 69
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
114
- Administration application 20
- Adult guardianship 29
- Charitable giving 9
- Client Relations 28
- Committeeship
- Curative provisions 1
- Devolution of assets 30
- Elder care 36
- Estate litigation 51
- Estate planning 65
- Ethics 20
- Executors and trustees 33
- Fiduciary 4
- General 32
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues
- Life estate
- Multijurisdictional estates 9
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney
- Practice 1
- Probate application 23
- Professional Responsibility 25
- Rectifying wills
- Representation agreement
- Tax issues 44
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 59
- Wills 40
- Wills challenges 1
- Workers Compensation 31
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PRACTICE AREA
-
Aboriginal Law
127
- Business and aboriginal law 20
- Child protection 10
- Criminal justice system 13
- Dispute resolution
- Family law 10
- General 32
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools
- Lands and title 74
- Litigation 24
- Practice 15
- Rights 46
- Self-government 31
- Tax issues 10
- Treaty Negotiations 25
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations 7
- Wills and estates 3
- Access to Justice 3
-
Administrative Law
83
- Abuse of discretion 5
- Appellate review 16
- Bias and impartiality
- Charter cases 19
- Choice of forum
- Discipline proceedings 11
- Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 8
- Judicial review 58
- Jurisdiction 18
- Natural justice 15
- Parties
- Practice 28
- Remedies 19
- Self-represented parties
- Standard of review 1
- Tribunals 37
- ADR 124
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 36
- Builders Liens 18
-
Business Law
219
- Acquisitions and mergers 18
- Amalgamations 5
- Asset purchase agreement
- Banking law 3
- Buying and selling a business 29
- Cannabis
- Capital alterations 4
- Charities and non-profit organizations 15
- Client Relations 15
- Commercial litigation 22
- Competition law 6
- Continuations 3
- Contracts 33
- Corporate finance 24
- Corporate governance 32
- Corporate procedures 34
- Directors 18
- Dissolution and restoration 3
- Ethics 13
- Extra-provincial companies 3
- Fiduciary 7
- Franchising 4
- Fraud 12
- Incorporation and organization 21
- International 7
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 21
- Privacy 7
- Professional Responsibility 17
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders 19
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares 11
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues 25
- Childrens Law 2
- Communications Law 1
- Constitutional Law
-
Creditors Remedies
39
- Acting for the creditor 18
- Acting for the debtor 15
- Assets subject to attachment 9
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 10
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 3
- Consumer Protection 1
- Equitable remedies 6
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 11
- Injunctions and preservation orders 7
- Postjudgment remedies 12
- Prejudgment garnishment 7
- Priorities 12
- Proceeding to judgment 4
- Promissory notes
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 4
-
Criminal Law
61
- Anti-terrorism 3
- Appeals 8
- Charter of Rights 26
- Client Relations 8
- Defences 11
- Domestic violence 1
- Ethics 11
- Evidence 33
- Indigenous legal orders 2
- Judicial interim release 7
- Juries 3
- Offences 25
- Practice 20
- Prison law 1
- Professional Responsibility 16
- Restorative justice 1
- Sentencing 20
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Young offenders 5
- Cultural Competency 2
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 1
-
Employment Law
100
- Benefits 15
- Client Relations 7
- Compensation 14
- Defamation 5
- Discrimination 58
- Duties and liabilities 32
- Employment contracts 34
- Employment standards 34
- Ethics 4
- General 34
- Mandatory Retirement 9
- Occupational health and safety 30
- Pensions 14
- Practice 13
- Privacy 42
- Professional Responsibility 7
- Sexual harassment 17
- Tax issues 5
- Wrongful dismissal 39
- Environmental Law 33
-
Family Law
155
- Access to justice for children 1
- Adoption 5
- ADR 41
- Advocacy
- Appeals 6
- Assessments and reports
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Child abduction
- Child development 1
- Child protection 35
- Child rights 1
- Child support 55
- Client Relations 33
- Collaborative law 11
- Common law spouses 10
- Conflict of laws 7
- Costs 7
- Custody and access 53
- Division of property 64
- Divorce 14
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 34
- Evidence 36
- Excluded property
- Family law agreements
- Family violence
- Financial disclosure
- General 32
- Guardianship 26
- Indigenous
- Indigenous child welfare 1
- Interim relief 22
- Marriage 7
- Marriage agreements 21
- Mediation 23
- Multiculturalism 10
- Naming children 2
- Orders 19
- Parental alienation
- Parenting responsibilities and contact
- Pensions 9
- Pleadings 36
- Pre-nuptial agreements 12
- Professional Responsibility 29
- Property Agreements 9
- Property Agreements 8
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 6
- Self-represented Litigants
- Separation agreements 19
- Significant unfairness
- Spousal support 59
- Tax issues 14
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Trusts
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 22
- Valuation
- Views of child
- FOI and Privacy 64
- Health Law 22
- Human Rights 117
- Immigration 52
- Indigenous Legal Orders 5
-
Insurance
89
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 11
- Agents 4
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 27
- Contracts 28
- Damages 11
- Defences 20
- Directors and officers insurance 8
- Duties and liabilities 12
- Exclusions 17
- Fire insurance 5
- Homeowners insurance 16
- Lawyers liability insurance 7
- Liability insurance generally 31
- Life insurance 9
- Litigation 32
- Local government
- Motor vehicle insurance 19
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 5
- Property and loss of income insurance 7
- Strata
- Subrogation 17
- Intellectual Property 25
- Labour Law 38
- Legal Research and Writing 11
-
Legal Support Staff
95
- Business law for LSS 15
- Civil litigation for LSS 20
- Collections for LSS 3
- Conveyancing for LSS 8
- Corporate records for LSS 7
- Estate administration for LSS 10
- Family law for LSS 16
- Foreclosures for LSS 3
- Paralegals
- Personal injury practice for LSS 11
- PPSA for LSS 2
- Research for LSS 7
- Securities for LSS 7
-
Litigation
453
- Aboriginal litigation 18
- Advocacy skills 34
- Affidavits
- Appeals 25
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
- Causes of action 39
- Chambers applications 55
- Class actions 53
- Client Relations 27
- Commercial litigation 30
- Conflict of laws 6
- Constitutional 9
- Costs 98
- Damages 35
- Defamation 8
- Discovery 89
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 31
- Ethics 54
- Evidence 139
- Experts 105
- Host Liability 3
- Infants 6
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
- Intellectual property litigation 6
- Juries 22
- Jurisdiction 39
- Labour and employment litigation 18
- Law Reform 13
- Limitation of actions 11
- Limitation Periods 16
- Local government
- Municipal 11
- Orders 16
- Pleadings 81
- Practice 98
- Pre-judgment remedies
- Pre-trial Procedures 49
- Professional Responsibility 56
- Real estate litigation 34
- Registrar practice
- Releases
- Remedies 5
- Reviews 6
- Securities litigation 6
- Self-represented litigants
- Settlement 62
- Summary trials 26
- Tax issues for litigators 1
- Tax litigation 3
- Torts 23
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trials 86
- Unrepresented Litigants 46
- Vicarious liability 13
- Local Government
- Maritime Law 2
- Municipal Law 24
- Natural Resources 23
-
Personal Injury
67
- Client Relations 12
- Costs 1
- Damages 34
- Defences 19
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 10
- Experts
- Family compensation claims 6
- Host Liability 6
- Injuries 34
- Insurance 18
- Mediation 10
- Medical malpractice 5
- Motor vehicle accidents 34
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 25
- Practice 37
- Professional Responsibility 13
- Structured settlements and judgments 12
- Tax issues 7
- Trauma-informed practice
- Underinsured motorist protection
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
284
- Billing 37
- Client development 32
- Client Relations 96
- Conduct and the Law Society 37
- Document management 53
- Employee hiring and retention 21
- Ethics 129
- In House Counsel 4
- Insurance 16
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 30
- Partnership issues 6
- Professional Responsibility 13
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
- Solicitor-client privilege 34
- Technology 39
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Trust accounting 10
- Wellness 2
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 165
-
Real Estate
165
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers 5
- Assessment 12
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 7
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title 13
- Client Relations 23
- Closing procedures 22
- Commercial leases 31
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 27
- Construction litigation 25
- Conveyancing practice 23
- Development cost charges 5
- Development--general 31
- Development rights 9
- Easement
- Environmental issues 14
- Ethics 28
- Expropriation 4
- Financing 20
- Foreclosure 20
- Government approvals 3
- Indian Act conveyancing 12
- Land Title Office 22
- Legal proceedings 48
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes 6
- Mortgages 33
- Owner developers and strata corporations 2
- Professional Responsibility 20
- Purchase contract 27
- Residential tenancies 10
- Searches and investigations 10
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 4
- Statutory declarations
- Strata corporations 19
- Strata plans 11
- Strata properties--general 41
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 10
- Surveys 3
- Tax issues 48
- Title 14
- Undertakings 7
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 4
- School Law 12
- Secured Transactions 14
-
Securities
43
- Appeals 3
- BC Securities Commission 11
- Disclosure 25
- Due diligence 5
- General 25
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 5
- Judicial review 5
- Local Policy Statements 3
- National Registration Database 1
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 12
- Orders 6
- Practice 11
- Private placement 11
- Public offering 11
- Regulation 21
- Searches 2
- Stockbrokers 1
- Stock exchanges 11
- Stock options 5
- Takeover bids 13
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 88
- Strata Law
-
Tax
99
- Aboriginal tax issues 7
- Anti-avoidance rules 1
- Appeals 3
- Audits 5
- Buying and selling a business 6
- Capital gains 7
- Charities and non-profit organizations 3
- Collection practices and procedures 1
- Corporate 18
- Family law tax issues 10
- Foreign income 3
- General 5
- Goods and Services Tax 18
- Income splitting and attribution rules 2
- Income tax 8
- Intellectual property tax issues 2
- Lawyers and law firms 6
- Offshore taxation 4
- Partnership 2
- Pensions 1
- Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 3
- Practice 6
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 15
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 11
- Reorganizations 3
- Rollovers 5
- Sales tax 13
- Shares and shareholders 5
- Tax litigation 5
- Tax planning 6
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 34
- Technology Law 69
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
114
- Administration application 20
- Adult guardianship 29
- Charitable giving 9
- Client Relations 28
- Committeeship
- Curative provisions 1
- Devolution of assets 30
- Elder care 36
- Estate litigation 51
- Estate planning 65
- Ethics 20
- Executors and trustees 33
- Fiduciary 4
- General 32
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues
- Life estate
- Multijurisdictional estates 9
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney
- Practice 1
- Probate application 23
- Professional Responsibility 25
- Rectifying wills
- Representation agreement
- Tax issues 44
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning 59
- Wills 40
- Wills challenges 1
- Workers Compensation 31
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