Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 171
  • Business and aboriginal law 36
  • Child protection 16
  • Criminal justice system 18
  • Dispute resolution 3
  • Family law 17
  • General 47
  • Indian Act 10
  • Indian residential schools 6
  • Lands and title 87
  • Litigation 34
  • Practice 27
  • Rights 63
  • Self-government 42
  • Tax issues 11
  • Treaty Negotiations 29
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 7
  • Wills and estates 4
• Access to Justice 22
  • Children 9
  • General 8
  • Indigenous child welfare 13
  • Trauma-informed practice 8
• Administrative Law 105
  • Abuse of discretion 7
  • Appellate review 19
  • Bias and impartiality 2
  • Charter cases 25
  • Choice of forum 1
  • Discipline proceedings 12
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 9
  • Judicial review 70
  • Jurisdiction 28
  • Natural justice 18
  • Parties 3
  • Practice 37
  • Remedies 24
  • Self-represented parties 3
  • Standard of review 13
  • Tribunals 49
• ADR 138
  • Arbitration 57
  • Collaborative law 5
  • Judicial review 9
  • Mediation 65
  • Mediation--family law 34
  • Practice 26
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 46
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 9
  • Appeals 3
  • Directors liability 13
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 7
  • General 29
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 10
  • Priorities 19
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 14
  • Receiving orders 7
  • Settlements and preferences 11
  • Trustees 7
• Builders Liens 26
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien 2
  • Enforcement 3
  • General 5
  • Holdbacks 1
  • Priority of liens 2
  • Solicitors liability 1
  • Subcontractors 1
• Business Law 245
  • Acquisitions and mergers 21
  • Amalgamations 4
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law 5
  • Buying and selling a business 32
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 5
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 16
  • Client Relations 19
  • Commercial litigation 22
  • Competition law 6
  • Continuations 3
  • Contracts 42
  • Corporate finance 26
  • Corporate governance 37
  • Corporate procedures 34
  • Directors 22
  • Dissolution and restoration 4
  • Ethics 17
  • Extra-provincial companies 4
  • Fiduciary 8
  • Franchising 4
  • Fraud 12
  • Incorporation and organization 22
  • International 7
  • Partnerships 14
  • Practice 28
  • Privacy 7
  • Professional Responsibility 20
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 24
  • Shareholder agreements 2
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 12
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 32
• Childrens Law 12
  • Access to justice for children 5
  • Child development 2
  • Child protection 5
  • Child rights 8
  • Indigenous child welfare 8
  • Trauma-informed practice 6
• Communications Law 1
• Constitutional Law 5
  • Charter 2
  • Division of powers 2
  • Indigenous 2
• Creditors Remedies 49
  • Acting for the creditor 23
  • Acting for the debtor 20
  • Assets subject to attachment 12
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 14
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 5
  • Consumer Protection 1
  • Equitable remedies 9
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 14
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 8
  • Postjudgment remedies 15
  • Prejudgment garnishment 10
  • Priorities 18
  • Proceeding to judgment 5
  • Promissory notes
  • Repairers liens 2
  • Searches 5
• Criminal Law 79
  • Anti-terrorism 3
  • Appeals 9
  • Charter of Rights 30
  • Client Relations 14
  • Defences 18
  • Domestic violence 4
  • Ethics 15
  • Evidence 39
  • Indigenous legal orders 8
  • Judicial interim release 8
  • Juries 3
  • Offences 34
  • Practice 30
  • Prison law 1
  • Professional Responsibility 20
  • Restorative justice 4
  • Sentencing 27
  • Trauma-informed practice 6
  • Young offenders 7
• Cultural Competency 16
  • Ethics 4
  • Professional responsibility 5
  • Trauma-informed practice 3
• Dispute Resolution 10
  • Arbitration 5
  • Choice of forum 2
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution 3
  • Mediation 6
  • Mediation—Family Law 3
  • Practice 4
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 4
  • Ethics 1
  • Professional responsibility 2
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
• Employment Law 122
  • Benefits 16
  • Client Relations 10
  • Compensation 16
  • Defamation 6
  • Discrimination 63
  • Duties and liabilities 36
  • Employment contracts 42
  • Employment standards 39
  • Ethics 6
  • General 47
  • Mandatory Retirement 9
  • Occupational health and safety 35
  • Pensions 14
  • Practice 20
  • Privacy 47
  • Professional Responsibility 8
  • Sexual harassment 22
  • Tax issues 5
  • Wrongful dismissal 44
• Environmental Law 42
  • Climate change 4
  • Conservation covenants 3
  • Contaminated sites 13
  • Endangered species 3
  • Environmental assessment 14
  • Environmental protection 20
  • Forest practices 4
  • Indigenous 5
  • Insurance 4
  • Liability 15
  • Waste management 2
• Family Law 200
  • Access to justice for children 3
  • Adoption 5
  • ADR 42
  • Advocacy 6
  • Appeals 4
  • Assessments and reports 6
  • Assisted reproductive technologies 2
  • Child abduction 2
  • Child development 2
  • Child protection 42
  • Child rights 5
  • Child support 62
  • Client Relations 47
  • Collaborative law 13
  • Common law spouses 10
  • Conflict of laws 7
  • Costs 9
  • Custody and access 57
  • Division of property 78
  • Divorce 18
  • Dispute resolution 5
  • Ethics 39
  • Evidence 44
  • Excluded property 10
  • Family law agreements 10
  • Family violence 9
  • Financial disclosure 11
  • General 35
  • Guardianship 28
  • Indigenous 2
  • Indigenous child welfare 8
  • Interim relief 25
  • Marriage 9
  • Marriage agreements 22
  • Mediation 27
  • Multiculturalism 10
  • Naming children 2
  • Orders 27
  • Parental alienation 4
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact 12
  • Pensions 12
  • Pleadings 44
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 12
  • Professional Responsibility 38
  • Property Agreements 12
  • Property Agreements 9
  • References to Registrar 3
  • Same-sex couples 7
  • Self-represented Litigants 4
  • Separation agreements 21
  • Significant unfairness 8
  • Spousal support 68
  • Tax issues 19
  • Trauma-informed practice 3
  • Trusts 8
  • Unjust enrichment 1
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 21
  • Valuation 8
  • Views of child 7
• FOI and Privacy 68
• Health Law 23
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 130
  • BCHRA 35
  • Charter 57
  • CHRA 12
  • Client Relations 6
  • Discrimination 81
  • Ethics 7
  • Ethics 5
  • General 42
  • Indigenous human rights 6
  • Procedure 27
  • Professional Responsibility 9
  • Remedies 16
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
• Immigration 59
  • Admission 37
  • Appeals 24
  • Business immigrants 18
  • Citizenship 15
  • Client Relations 12
  • Detention 6
  • Ethics 11
  • Extradition 14
  • Labour market impact assessment 5
  • Permanent residency 20
  • Policy 22
  • Practice 33
  • Professional Responsibility 10
  • Provincial nominee program 2
  • Refugees 30
  • Tax issues 6
  • Visas 15
  • Work permits 5
• Indigenous Legal Orders 41
  • Child welfare 10
  • Dispute resolution 7
  • Education 3
  • Elders 7
  • Family 9
  • Health 5
  • Intellectual property 3
  • International law 8
  • Lands and titles 11
  • Language 4
  • Legal orders 22
  • Natural resources 7
  • Sovereignty 11
  • Stewardship 9
  • Trauma-informed practice 10
• Insurance 100
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 11
  • Agents 7
  • Bad faith
  • Breach 1
  • Claims 35
  • Contracts 33
  • Damages 14
  • Defences 22
  • Directors and officers insurance 8
  • Duties and liabilities 14
  • Exclusions 22
  • Fire insurance 5
  • Homeowners insurance 17
  • Lawyers liability insurance 8
  • Liability insurance generally 36
  • Life insurance 9
  • Litigation 39
  • Local government
  • Motor vehicle insurance 20
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 6
  • Property and loss of income insurance 7
  • Strata 1
  • Subrogation 19
• Intellectual Property 29
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 5
  • Computer software and Internet issues 10
  • Copyright 16
  • Disputes 3
  • Licensing 6
  • Litigation 2
  • Patents 10
  • Remedies 9
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 17
  • Trade secrets 13
• Labour Law 46
  • Arbitration 27
  • Certification and decertification 12
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 16
  • Industrial disputes 4
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 18
  • Picketing 4
  • Practice 12
  • Successorship 5
  • Unfair labour practices 8
  • Unions 24
• Legal Research and Writing 14
• Legal Support Staff 102
  • Business law for LSS 14
  • Civil litigation for LSS 21
  • Collections for LSS 3
  • Conveyancing for LSS 9
  • Corporate records for LSS 7
  • Estate administration for LSS 14
  • Family law for LSS 18
  • Foreclosures for LSS 3
  • Paralegals 5
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 11
  • PPSA for LSS 2
  • Research for LSS 8
  • Securities for LSS 7
• Litigation 538
  • Aboriginal litigation 21
  • Advocacy skills 55
  • Affidavits 8
  • Appeals 32
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 10
  • Causes of action 48
  • Chambers applications 60
  • Class actions 62
  • Client Relations 40
  • Commercial litigation 36
  • Conflict of laws 6
  • Constitutional 10
  • Costs 105
  • Damages 44
  • Defamation 12
  • Discovery 96
  • Economic Loss 2
  • Estate litigation 34
  • Ethics 68
  • Evidence 162
  • Experts 121
  • Host Liability 3
  • Infants 6
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 4
  • Intellectual property litigation 8
  • Juries 23
  • Jurisdiction 45
  • Labour and employment litigation 18
  • Law Reform 15
  • Limitation of actions 11
  • Limitation Periods 17
  • Local government 1
  • Municipal 13
  • Orders 19
  • Pleadings 89
  • Practice 135
  • Pre-judgment remedies 5
  • Pre-trial Procedures 58
  • Professional Responsibility 76
  • Real estate litigation 43
  • Registrar practice 4
  • Releases
  • Remedies 9
  • Reviews 7
  • Securities litigation 10
  • Self-represented litigants 4
  • Settlement 62
  • Summary trials 29
  • Tax issues for litigators 2
  • Tax litigation 3
  • Torts 30
  • Trauma-informed practice 3
  • Trials 89
  • Unrepresented Litigants 46
  • Vicarious liability 16
• Local Government 5
  • Building regulation
  • Bylaws 3
  • Contracts 1
  • Councils
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General 1
  • Land use planning 1
  • Licensing
  • Litigation 3
  • Taxation 1
  • Zoning 2
• Maritime Law 2
• Municipal Law 30
  • Actions by and against municipalities 5
  • Bylaws 11
  • Contracts 10
  • Development cost charges 1
  • Financial management 3
  • General 10
  • Land use planning 9
  • Licensing 2
  • Litigation 14
  • Municipal councils 5
  • Powers of municipality 11
  • Subdivision 3
  • Zoning 7
• Natural Resources 28
  • Aboriginal rights 14
  • Fisheries law 7
  • Forestry law 11
  • General 8
  • Indigenous legal orders 2
  • Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship 6
  • Mining law 13
  • Oil and gas law 5
  • Water 4
  • Wildlife 3
• Personal Injury 74
  • Client Relations 13
  • Costs 3
  • Damages 39
  • Defences 23
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 13
  • Experts 3
  • Family compensation claims 6
  • Host Liability 6
  • Injuries 39
  • Insurance 19
  • Mediation 11
  • Medical malpractice 6
  • Motor vehicle accidents 38
  • Occupiers liability 7
  • Part 7 benefits 25
  • Practice 43
  • Professional Responsibility 15
  • Structured settlements and judgments 12
  • Tax issues 7
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 369
  • Billing 44
  • Client development 47
  • Client Relations 119
  • Conduct and the Law Society 42
  • Document management 59
  • Employee hiring and retention 35
  • Ethics 153
  • In House Counsel 6
  • Insurance 19
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 47
  • Partnership issues 13
  • Professional Responsibility 41
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
  • Solicitor-client privilege 40
  • Technology 62
  • Trauma-informed practice 7
  • Trust accounting 18
  • Wellness 31
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 176
  • Client Relations 77
  • Ethics 138
  • Trauma-informed practice 3
• Real Estate 202
  • Affidavits 3
  • Agents and brokers 11
  • Assessment 15
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 10
  • Certificate of pending litigation 2
  • Charges on title 18
  • Client Relations 38
  • Closing procedures 28
  • Commercial leases 35
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 33
  • Construction litigation 33
  • Conveyancing practice 30
  • Development cost charges 7
  • Development--general 40
  • Development rights 11
  • Easement 3
  • Environmental issues 17
  • Ethics 35
  • Expropriation 6
  • Financing 29
  • Foreclosure 26
  • Government approvals 4
  • Indian Act conveyancing 19
  • Land Title Office 30
  • Legal proceedings 58
  • Licensees 1
  • Manufactured homes 6
  • Mortgages 44
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 4
  • Professional Responsibility 31
  • Purchase contract 34
  • Residential tenancies 15
  • Searches and investigations 18
  • Site development control 4
  • Statements of adjustments 7
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 25
  • Strata plans 14
  • Strata properties--general 51
  • Structure of the developer 3
  • Subdivision 12
  • Surveys 4
  • Tax issues 63
  • Title 22
  • Undertakings 14
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 9
• School Law 14
• Secured Transactions 16
  • Chattel mortgages 1
  • Conflict of laws 2
  • Debtor protection 3
  • Due diligence 5
  • Enforcement 6
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 6
  • General 7
  • Intellectual property 2
  • Loans 1
  • Mortgages 5
  • Perfection 2
  • Purchase money security interests 3
  • Receivers 2
  • Registration 4
  • Security agreements 6
  • Security interests 5
• Securities 52
  • Appeals 3
  • BC Securities Commission 17
  • Disclosure 31
  • Due diligence 6
  • General 31
  • Hearings 4
  • Investigations 7
  • Judicial review 5
  • Local Policy Statements 5
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 4
  • Offences 13
  • Orders 7
  • Practice 14
  • Private placement 13
  • Public offering 13
  • Regulation 26
  • Searches 2
  • Stockbrokers 2
  • Stock exchanges 14
  • Stock options 5
  • Takeover bids 16
  • Underwriters 2
• Solicitor 94
  • Conduct and the Law Society 30
  • Conflict of interest 29
  • Ethics 42
  • Solicitor-client privilege 31
• Strata Law 17
  • Insurance 2
  • Strata Corporations 7
  • Strata Plans 6
• Tax 118
  • Aboriginal tax issues 9
  • Anti-avoidance rules 2
  • Appeals 4
  • Audits 8
  • Buying and selling a business 7
  • Capital gains 8
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 4
  • Collection practices and procedures 1
  • Corporate 19
  • Family law tax issues 10
  • Foreign income 3
  • General 9
  • Goods and Services Tax 24
  • Income splitting and attribution rules 2
  • Income tax 11
  • Intellectual property tax issues 2
  • Lawyers and law firms 8
  • Offshore taxation 5
  • Partnership 3
  • Pensions 1
  • Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 3
  • Practice 8
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 21
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 17
  • Reorganizations 3
  • Rollovers 5
  • Sales tax 18
  • Shares and shareholders 6
  • Tax litigation 7
  • Tax planning 8
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 36
• Technology Law 75
  • Intellectual property 13
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 5
  • Online contract formation 4
  • Practice 29
  • Privacy laws 21
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 6
  • Research 14
• Wills Estates and Trusts 143
  • Administration application 23
  • Adult guardianship 36
  • Charitable giving 13
  • Client Relations 43
  • Committeeship 7
  • Curative provisions 10
  • Devolution of assets 44
  • Elder care 42
  • Estate litigation 65
  • Estate planning 83
  • Ethics 27
  • Executors and trustees 44
  • Fiduciary 4
  • General 35
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 25
  • Life estate 1
  • Multijurisdictional estates 10
  • Passing of accounts 6
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 16
  • Practice 13
  • Probate application 31
  • Professional Responsibility 36
  • Rectifying wills 4
  • Representation agreement 12
  • Tax issues 58
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Trust planning 78
  • Wills 56
  • Wills challenges 18
• Workers Compensation 40
  • Assessments 1
  • Benefits 5
  • Claims 21
  • General 23
  • Liability of employer 19
  • Procedure 10
  • Workers Compensation Board 9