Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 152
  • Business and aboriginal law 30
  • Child protection 12
  • Criminal justice system 16
  • Dispute resolution 2
  • Family law 13
  • General 41
  • Indian Act 5
  • Indian residential schools 5
  • Lands and title 80
  • Litigation 29
  • Practice 21
  • Rights 56
  • Self-government 37
  • Tax issues 10
  • Treaty Negotiations 29
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 7
  • Wills and estates 4
• Access to Justice 15
  • Children 7
  • General 6
  • Indigenous child welfare 9
  • Trauma-informed practice 5
• Administrative Law 95
  • Abuse of discretion 6
  • Appellate review 18
  • Bias and impartiality 1
  • Charter cases 23
  • Choice of forum
  • Discipline proceedings 11
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 9
  • Judicial review 63
  • Jurisdiction 24
  • Natural justice 17
  • Parties 2
  • Practice 33
  • Remedies 20
  • Self-represented parties 2
  • Standard of review 9
  • Tribunals 42
• ADR 130
  • Arbitration 54
  • Collaborative law 4
  • Judicial review 9
  • Mediation 59
  • Mediation--family law 32
  • Practice 24
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 39
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 8
  • Appeals 3
  • Directors liability 12
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 7
  • General 26
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 9
  • Priorities 18
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 13
  • Receiving orders 5
  • Settlements and preferences 10
  • Trustees 6
• Builders Liens 22
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien 2
  • Enforcement 2
  • General 3
  • Holdbacks 1
  • Priority of liens 2
  • Solicitors liability 1
  • Subcontractors 1
• Business Law 227
  • Acquisitions and mergers 18
  • Amalgamations 4
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law 4
  • Buying and selling a business 29
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 5
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 16
  • Client Relations 16
  • Commercial litigation 22
  • Competition law 6
  • Continuations 3
  • Contracts 37
  • Corporate finance 25
  • Corporate governance 34
  • Corporate procedures 33
  • Directors 20
  • Dissolution and restoration 3
  • Ethics 14
  • Extra-provincial companies 3
  • Fiduciary 7
  • Franchising 4
  • Fraud 11
  • Incorporation and organization 22
  • International 7
  • Partnerships 12
  • Practice 23
  • Privacy 7
  • Professional Responsibility 18
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 22
  • Shareholder agreements 1
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 11
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 28
• Childrens Law 8
  • Access to justice for children 4
  • Child development 2
  • Child protection 4
  • Child rights 5
  • Indigenous child welfare 5
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
• Communications Law 1
• Constitutional Law 2
  • Charter 1
  • Division of powers
  • Indigenous 1
• Creditors Remedies 44
  • Acting for the creditor 20
  • Acting for the debtor 17
  • Assets subject to attachment 11
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 12
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 4
  • Consumer Protection 1
  • Equitable remedies 8
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 13
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 7
  • Postjudgment remedies 13
  • Prejudgment garnishment 8
  • Priorities 13
  • Proceeding to judgment 4
  • Promissory notes
  • Repairers liens 2
  • Searches 5
• Criminal Law 72
  • Anti-terrorism 3
  • Appeals 9
  • Charter of Rights 28
  • Client Relations 12
  • Defences 14
  • Domestic violence 3
  • Ethics 13
  • Evidence 37
  • Indigenous legal orders 7
  • Judicial interim release 8
  • Juries 3
  • Offences 30
  • Practice 25
  • Prison law 1
  • Professional Responsibility 19
  • Restorative justice 3
  • Sentencing 23
  • Trauma-informed practice 5
  • Young offenders 7
• Cultural Competency 14
  • Ethics 3
  • Professional responsibility 4
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
• Dispute Resolution 7
  • Arbitration 3
  • Choice of forum 2
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution 3
  • Mediation 3
  • Mediation—Family Law 2
  • Practice 3
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 3
  • Ethics 1
  • Professional responsibility 2
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
• Employment Law 109
  • Benefits 16
  • Client Relations 8
  • Compensation 15
  • Defamation 5
  • Discrimination 61
  • Duties and liabilities 34
  • Employment contracts 38
  • Employment standards 36
  • Ethics 5
  • General 40
  • Mandatory Retirement 9
  • Occupational health and safety 33
  • Pensions 14
  • Practice 16
  • Privacy 44
  • Professional Responsibility 8
  • Sexual harassment 20
  • Tax issues 5
  • Wrongful dismissal 42
• Environmental Law 39
  • Climate change 3
  • Conservation covenants 3
  • Contaminated sites 13
  • Endangered species 3
  • Environmental assessment 13
  • Environmental protection 18
  • Forest practices 4
  • Indigenous 4
  • Insurance 4
  • Liability 13
  • Waste management 2
• Family Law 181
  • Access to justice for children 1
  • Adoption 5
  • ADR 42
  • Advocacy 4
  • Appeals 4
  • Assessments and reports 4
  • Assisted reproductive technologies 2
  • Child abduction 1
  • Child development 2
  • Child protection 40
  • Child rights 4
  • Child support 61
  • Client Relations 43
  • Collaborative law 11
  • Common law spouses 10
  • Conflict of laws 7
  • Costs 8
  • Custody and access 55
  • Division of property 73
  • Divorce 16
  • Dispute resolution 3
  • Ethics 37
  • Evidence 43
  • Excluded property 9
  • Family law agreements 8
  • Family violence 9
  • Financial disclosure 6
  • General 34
  • Guardianship 26
  • Indigenous 2
  • Indigenous child welfare 5
  • Interim relief 24
  • Marriage 9
  • Marriage agreements 22
  • Mediation 25
  • Multiculturalism 10
  • Naming children 2
  • Orders 24
  • Parental alienation 4
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact 10
  • Pensions 12
  • Pleadings 40
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 12
  • Professional Responsibility 34
  • Property Agreements 12
  • Property Agreements 9
  • References to Registrar 2
  • Same-sex couples 7
  • Self-represented Litigants 4
  • Separation agreements 21
  • Significant unfairness 7
  • Spousal support 67
  • Tax issues 17
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Trusts 5
  • Unjust enrichment 1
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 21
  • Valuation 6
  • Views of child 4
• FOI and Privacy 68
• Health Law 23
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 123
  • BCHRA 32
  • Charter 56
  • CHRA 9
  • Client Relations 6
  • Discrimination 77
  • Ethics 7
  • Ethics 5
  • General 38
  • Indigenous human rights 3
  • Procedure 25
  • Professional Responsibility 7
  • Remedies 13
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
• Immigration 55
  • Admission 34
  • Appeals 22
  • Business immigrants 17
  • Citizenship 15
  • Client Relations 9
  • Detention 4
  • Ethics 8
  • Extradition 14
  • Labour market impact assessment 3
  • Permanent residency 20
  • Policy 21
  • Practice 30
  • Professional Responsibility 8
  • Provincial nominee program 1
  • Refugees 28
  • Tax issues 6
  • Visas 15
  • Work permits 3
• Indigenous Legal Orders 27
  • Child welfare 6
  • Dispute resolution 5
  • Education 2
  • Elders 4
  • Family 6
  • Health 4
  • Intellectual property 2
  • International law 6
  • Lands and titles 7
  • Language 2
  • Legal orders 17
  • Natural resources 4
  • Sovereignty 9
  • Stewardship 7
  • Trauma-informed practice 7
• Insurance 94
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 11
  • Agents 5
  • Bad faith
  • Breach
  • Claims 31
  • Contracts 30
  • Damages 13
  • Defences 21
  • Directors and officers insurance 8
  • Duties and liabilities 12
  • Exclusions 20
  • Fire insurance 5
  • Homeowners insurance 16
  • Lawyers liability insurance 8
  • Liability insurance generally 35
  • Life insurance 9
  • Litigation 35
  • Local government
  • Motor vehicle insurance 20
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 5
  • Property and loss of income insurance 7
  • Strata 1
  • Subrogation 17
• Intellectual Property 27
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 5
  • Computer software and Internet issues 9
  • Copyright 15
  • Disputes 1
  • Licensing 6
  • Litigation 1
  • Patents 9
  • Remedies 8
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 16
  • Trade secrets 12
• Labour Law 42
  • Arbitration 26
  • Certification and decertification 10
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 16
  • Industrial disputes 3
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 17
  • Picketing 4
  • Practice 9
  • Successorship 5
  • Unfair labour practices 8
  • Unions 22
• Legal Research and Writing 11
• Legal Support Staff 100
  • 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 13
  • Family law for LSS 17
  • Foreclosures for LSS 3
  • Paralegals 4
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 11
  • PPSA for LSS 2
  • Research for LSS 8
  • Securities for LSS 7
• Litigation 495
  • Aboriginal litigation 19
  • Advocacy skills 45
  • Affidavits 5
  • Appeals 30
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 8
  • Causes of action 42
  • Chambers applications 59
  • Class actions 60
  • Client Relations 31
  • Commercial litigation 31
  • Conflict of laws 5
  • Constitutional 10
  • Costs 101
  • Damages 39
  • Defamation 11
  • Discovery 92
  • Economic Loss 2
  • Estate litigation 33
  • Ethics 57
  • Evidence 152
  • Experts 111
  • Host Liability 3
  • Infants 6
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
  • Intellectual property litigation 7
  • Juries 22
  • Jurisdiction 42
  • Labour and employment litigation 18
  • Law Reform 14
  • Limitation of actions 11
  • Limitation Periods 17
  • Local government 1
  • Municipal 11
  • Orders 18
  • Pleadings 85
  • Practice 115
  • Pre-judgment remedies 3
  • Pre-trial Procedures 51
  • Professional Responsibility 62
  • Real estate litigation 38
  • Registrar practice 2
  • Releases
  • Remedies 6
  • Reviews 7
  • Securities litigation 7
  • Self-represented litigants 3
  • Settlement 62
  • Summary trials 27
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 3
  • Torts 28
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
  • Trials 87
  • Unrepresented Litigants 46
  • Vicarious liability 15
• Local Government 3
  • Building regulation
  • Bylaws 2
  • Contracts 1
  • Councils
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General
  • Land use planning
  • Licensing
  • Litigation 1
  • Taxation
  • Zoning 1
• Maritime Law 2
• Municipal Law 26
  • Actions by and against municipalities 5
  • Bylaws 10
  • Contracts 8
  • Development cost charges 1
  • Financial management 3
  • General 9
  • Land use planning 9
  • Licensing 2
  • Litigation 10
  • Municipal councils 5
  • Powers of municipality 11
  • Subdivision 3
  • Zoning 6
• Natural Resources 26
  • Aboriginal rights 12
  • Fisheries law 7
  • Forestry law 10
  • General 7
  • Indigenous legal orders 2
  • Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship 4
  • Mining law 12
  • Oil and gas law 5
  • Water 4
  • Wildlife 3
• Personal Injury 73
  • Client Relations 13
  • Costs 3
  • Damages 38
  • Defences 22
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 12
  • Experts 2
  • Family compensation claims 6
  • Host Liability 6
  • Injuries 38
  • Insurance 19
  • Mediation 11
  • Medical malpractice 6
  • Motor vehicle accidents 37
  • Occupiers liability 6
  • Part 7 benefits 25
  • Practice 42
  • Professional Responsibility 14
  • Structured settlements and judgments 12
  • Tax issues 7
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 327
  • Billing 40
  • Client development 40
  • Client Relations 108
  • Conduct and the Law Society 37
  • Document management 54
  • Employee hiring and retention 26
  • Ethics 143
  • In House Counsel 5
  • Insurance 18
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 38
  • Partnership issues 9
  • Professional Responsibility 32
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
  • Solicitor-client privilege 39
  • Technology 55
  • Trauma-informed practice 6
  • Trust accounting 15
  • Wellness 19
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 167
  • Client Relations 73
  • Ethics 133
  • Trauma-informed practice 3
• Real Estate 186
  • Affidavits 1
  • Agents and brokers 8
  • Assessment 14
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 9
  • Certificate of pending litigation 2
  • Charges on title 16
  • Client Relations 31
  • Closing procedures 25
  • Commercial leases 33
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 28
  • Construction litigation 28
  • Conveyancing practice 27
  • Development cost charges 6
  • Development--general 35
  • Development rights 11
  • Easement 2
  • Environmental issues 16
  • Ethics 31
  • Expropriation 5
  • Financing 26
  • Foreclosure 23
  • Government approvals 4
  • Indian Act conveyancing 14
  • Land Title Office 25
  • Legal proceedings 54
  • Licensees 1
  • Manufactured homes 6
  • Mortgages 40
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 4
  • Professional Responsibility 25
  • Purchase contract 31
  • Residential tenancies 12
  • Searches and investigations 15
  • Site development control 4
  • Statements of adjustments 6
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 24
  • Strata plans 14
  • Strata properties--general 48
  • Structure of the developer 2
  • Subdivision 12
  • Surveys 4
  • Tax issues 57
  • Title 17
  • Undertakings 11
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 8
• School Law 13
• 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 48
  • Appeals 3
  • BC Securities Commission 15
  • Disclosure 29
  • Due diligence 6
  • General 29
  • Hearings 4
  • Investigations 6
  • Judicial review 5
  • Local Policy Statements 4
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 4
  • Offences 12
  • Orders 7
  • Practice 12
  • Private placement 12
  • Public offering 11
  • Regulation 24
  • Searches 2
  • Stockbrokers 1
  • Stock exchanges 13
  • Stock options 5
  • Takeover bids 15
  • Underwriters 2
• Solicitor 89
  • Conduct and the Law Society 29
  • Conflict of interest 27
  • Ethics 40
  • Solicitor-client privilege 30
• Strata Law 13
  • Insurance 2
  • Strata Corporations 5
  • Strata Plans 6
• Tax 110
  • Aboriginal tax issues 7
  • Anti-avoidance rules 2
  • Appeals 3
  • Audits 7
  • Buying and selling a business 7
  • Capital gains 8
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 4
  • Collection practices and procedures 1
  • Corporate 20
  • Family law tax issues 10
  • Foreign income 3
  • General 8
  • Goods and Services Tax 23
  • Income splitting and attribution rules 2
  • Income tax 10
  • 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 3
  • Practice 8
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 20
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 14
  • Reorganizations 3
  • Rollovers 5
  • Sales tax 17
  • Shares and shareholders 7
  • Tax litigation 7
  • Tax planning 8
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 36
• Technology Law 72
  • Intellectual property 12
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 5
  • Online contract formation 4
  • Practice 27
  • Privacy laws 21
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 6
  • Research 14
• Wills Estates and Trusts 132
  • Administration application 22
  • Adult guardianship 34
  • Charitable giving 12
  • Client Relations 39
  • Committeeship 4
  • Curative provisions 7
  • Devolution of assets 39
  • Elder care 40
  • Estate litigation 60
  • Estate planning 76
  • Ethics 25
  • Executors and trustees 41
  • Fiduciary 4
  • General 34
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 21
  • Life estate 1
  • Multijurisdictional estates 9
  • Passing of accounts 4
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 12
  • Practice 8
  • Probate application 29
  • Professional Responsibility 31
  • Rectifying wills 4
  • Representation agreement 8
  • Tax issues 53
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Trust planning 70
  • Wills 51
  • Wills challenges 12
• Workers Compensation 35
  • Assessments 1
  • Benefits 5
  • Claims 20
  • General 19
  • Liability of employer 17
  • Procedure 9
  • Workers Compensation Board 7