Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 113
  • Business and aboriginal law 15
  • Child protection 7
  • Criminal justice system 8
  • Family law 9
  • General 23
  • Lands and title 70
  • Litigation 22
  • Practice 10
  • Rights 36
  • Self-government 26
  • Tax issues 10
  • Treaty Negotiations 24
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 7
  • Wills and estates 1
• Administrative Law 77
  • Abuse of discretion 5
  • Appellate review 15
  • Charter cases 19
  • Discipline proceedings 9
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 9
  • Judicial review 52
  • Jurisdiction 14
  • Natural justice 14
  • Practice 26
  • Remedies 17
  • Tribunals 32
• ADR 116
  • Arbitration 49
  • Collaborative law 4
  • Judicial review 7
  • Mediation 52
  • Mediation--family law 29
  • Practice 18
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 32
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 6
  • Appeals 3
  • Directors liability 10
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 7
  • General 21
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 4
  • Priorities 15
  • Proposals 10
  • Receiving orders 4
  • Settlements and preferences 8
  • Trustees 6
• Builders Liens 18
• Business Law 211
  • Acquisitions and mergers 19
  • Amalgamations 4
  • Banking law 3
  • Buying and selling a business 30
  • Capital alterations 3
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 15
  • Client Relations 8
  • Commercial litigation 19
  • Competition law 5
  • Continuations 2
  • Contracts 29
  • Corporate finance 25
  • Corporate governance 32
  • Corporate procedures 32
  • Directors 16
  • Dissolution and restoration 2
  • Ethics 11
  • Extra-provincial companies 3
  • Fiduciary 7
  • Franchising 3
  • Fraud 9
  • Incorporation and organization 22
  • International 7
  • Partnerships 8
  • Practice 18
  • Privacy 8
  • Professional Responsibility 13
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 15
  • Shares 10
  • Tax issues 30
• Communications Law 1
• Creditors Remedies 34
  • Acting for the creditor 15
  • Acting for the debtor 13
  • Assets subject to attachment 7
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 6
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 1
  • Consumer Protection 1
  • Equitable remedies 5
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 9
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 5
  • Postjudgment remedies 10
  • Prejudgment garnishment 6
  • Priorities 10
  • Proceeding to judgment 3
  • Repairers liens
  • Searches 4
• Criminal Law 59
  • Anti-terrorism 1
  • Appeals 7
  • Charter of Rights 24
  • Client Relations 6
  • Defences 11
  • Ethics 10
  • Evidence 31
  • Judicial interim release 5
  • Juries 2
  • Offences 25
  • Practice 17
  • Professional Responsibility 14
  • Sentencing 18
  • Young offenders 5
• Employment Law 95
  • Benefits 13
  • Client Relations 7
  • Compensation 10
  • Defamation 5
  • Discrimination 55
  • Duties and liabilities 31
  • Employment contracts 34
  • Employment standards 31
  • Ethics 3
  • General 29
  • Mandatory Retirement 9
  • Occupational health and safety 28
  • Pensions 13
  • Practice 11
  • Privacy 40
  • Professional Responsibility 4
  • Sexual harassment 13
  • Tax issues 4
  • Wrongful dismissal 37
• Environmental Law 27
  • Conservation covenants 2
  • Contaminated sites 11
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 10
  • Environmental protection 12
  • Forest practices 3
  • Insurance 4
  • Liability 10
  • Waste management 2
• Family Law 146
  • Adoption 4
  • ADR 40
  • Advocacy 1
  • Appeals 5
  • Child protection 30
  • Child support 53
  • Client Relations 29
  • Collaborative law 11
  • Common law spouses 10
  • Conflict of laws 7
  • Costs 8
  • Custody and access 50
  • Division of property 64
  • Divorce 11
  • Ethics 31
  • Evidence 34
  • General 34
  • Guardianship 25
  • Interim relief 20
  • Marriage 7
  • Marriage agreements 20
  • Mediation 22
  • Multiculturalism 8
  • Naming children 2
  • Orders 19
  • Pensions 11
  • Pleadings 35
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 11
  • Professional Responsibility 27
  • Property Agreements 8
  • Property Agreements 8
  • References to Registrar 2
  • Same-sex couples 6
  • Separation agreements 18
  • Spousal support 55
  • Tax issues 14
  • Unrepresented Litigants 19
• FOI and Privacy 63
• Health Law 22
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 110
  • BCHRA 28
  • Charter 52
  • CHRA 8
  • Client Relations 2
  • Discrimination 68
  • Ethics 3
  • Ethics 2
  • General 30
  • Procedure 20
  • Professional Responsibility 3
  • Remedies 10
• Immigration 49
  • Admission 32
  • Appeals 19
  • Business immigrants 16
  • Citizenship 15
  • Client Relations 10
  • Ethics 10
  • Extradition 14
  • Permanent residency 17
  • Policy 20
  • Practice 27
  • Professional Responsibility 6
  • Refugees 24
  • Tax issues 7
  • Visas 15
• Insurance 83
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 9
  • Agents 4
  • Claims 23
  • Contracts 26
  • Damages 8
  • Defences 19
  • Directors and officers insurance 7
  • Duties and liabilities 11
  • Exclusions 14
  • Fire insurance 3
  • Homeowners insurance 15
  • Lawyers liability insurance 6
  • Liability insurance generally 28
  • Life insurance 9
  • Litigation 28
  • Motor vehicle insurance 20
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 6
  • Property and loss of income insurance 5
  • Subrogation 19
• Intellectual Property 28
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 6
  • Computer software and Internet issues 7
  • Copyright 15
  • Licensing 5
  • Patents 10
  • Remedies 7
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 16
  • Trade secrets 12
• Labour Law 38
  • Arbitration 23
  • Certification and decertification 8
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 14
  • Industrial disputes 2
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 15
  • Picketing 4
  • Practice 8
  • Successorship 4
  • Unfair labour practices 8
  • Unions 19
• Legal Research and Writing 10
• Legal Support Staff 94
  • Business law for LSS 15
  • Civil litigation for LSS 19
  • Collections for LSS 3
  • Conveyancing for LSS 9
  • Corporate records for LSS 7
  • Estate administration for LSS 9
  • Family law for LSS 16
  • Foreclosures for LSS 3
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 11
  • PPSA for LSS 2
  • Research for LSS 7
  • Securities for LSS 7
• Litigation 435
  • Aboriginal litigation 18
  • Advocacy skills 32
  • Appeals 23
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
  • Causes of action 40
  • Chambers applications 52
  • Class actions 51
  • Client Relations 27
  • Commercial litigation 27
  • Conflict of laws 6
  • Constitutional 9
  • Costs 97
  • Damages 37
  • Defamation 8
  • Discovery 90
  • Economic Loss 2
  • Estate litigation 30
  • Ethics 54
  • Evidence 133
  • Experts 102
  • Host Liability 3
  • Infants 7
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 2
  • Intellectual property litigation 6
  • Juries 22
  • Jurisdiction 40
  • Labour and employment litigation 18
  • Law Reform 13
  • Limitation of actions 11
  • Limitation Periods 16
  • Municipal 11
  • Orders 16
  • Pleadings 83
  • Practice 97
  • Pre-trial Procedures 48
  • Professional Responsibility 53
  • Real estate litigation 31
  • Remedies 5
  • Reviews 5
  • Securities litigation 6
  • Settlement 58
  • Summary trials 27
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 3
  • Torts 24
  • Trials 83
  • Unrepresented Litigants 47
  • Vicarious liability 13
• Maritime Law 2
• Municipal Law 22
  • Actions by and against municipalities 4
  • Bylaws 8
  • Contracts 7
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management 3
  • General 6
  • Land use planning 8
  • Licensing 2
  • Litigation 10
  • Municipal councils 5
  • Powers of municipality 10
  • Subdivision 2
  • Zoning 4
• Natural Resources 19
  • Aboriginal rights 7
  • Fisheries law 2
  • Forestry law 6
  • General 3
  • Mining law 10
  • Oil and gas law 4
  • Water 2
  • Wildlife 1
• Personal Injury 64
  • Client Relations 11
  • Damages 33
  • Defences 17
  • Ethics 10
  • Family compensation claims 6
  • Host Liability 6
  • Injuries 30
  • Insurance 17
  • Mediation 11
  • Medical malpractice 5
  • Motor vehicle accidents 33
  • Occupiers liability 5
  • Part 7 benefits 23
  • Practice 34
  • Professional Responsibility 13
  • Structured settlements and judgments 11
  • Tax issues 8
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 244
  • Billing 35
  • Client development 22
  • Client Relations 83
  • Conduct and the Law Society 29
  • Document management 49
  • Employee hiring and retention 12
  • Ethics 101
  • In House Counsel 3
  • Insurance 14
  • Management and organization of firms 19
  • Partnership issues 4
  • Professional Responsibility 10
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 4
  • Solicitor-client privilege 27
  • Technology 29
  • Trust accounting 8
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 139
  • Client Relations 56
  • Ethics 108
• Real Estate 154
  • Agents and brokers 6
  • Assessment 12
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 6
  • Charges on title 11
  • Client Relations 25
  • Closing procedures 17
  • Commercial leases 27
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 2
  • Construction contracts 25
  • Construction litigation 24
  • Conveyancing practice 20
  • Development cost charges 5
  • Development--general 32
  • Development rights 7
  • Environmental issues 15
  • Ethics 28
  • Expropriation 4
  • Financing 19
  • Foreclosure 17
  • Government approvals 2
  • Indian Act conveyancing 12
  • Land Title Office 21
  • Legal proceedings 42
  • Manufactured homes 4
  • Mortgages 28
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 2
  • Professional Responsibility 16
  • Purchase contract 24
  • Residential tenancies 10
  • Searches and investigations 10
  • Site development control 1
  • Statements of adjustments 3
  • Strata corporations 16
  • Strata plans 10
  • Strata properties--general 37
  • Structure of the developer 2
  • Subdivision 11
  • Surveys 5
  • Tax issues 47
  • Title 14
  • Undertakings 5
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 3
• School Law 12
• Secured Transactions 14
  • Chattel mortgages 1
  • Conflict of laws 1
  • Debtor protection 2
  • Due diligence 4
  • Enforcement 5
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 5
  • General 5
  • Intellectual property 2
  • Loans 1
  • Mortgages 5
  • Perfection 1
  • Purchase money security interests 2
  • Receivers 1
  • Registration 3
  • Security agreements 5
  • Security interests 4
• Securities 39
  • Appeals 2
  • BC Securities Commission 9
  • Disclosure 21
  • Due diligence 4
  • General 24
  • Hearings 3
  • Investigations 4
  • Judicial review 5
  • Local Policy Statements 1
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
  • Offences 10
  • Orders 5
  • Practice 10
  • Private placement 11
  • Public offering 9
  • Regulation 19
  • Searches 2
  • Stockbrokers 1
  • Stock exchanges 9
  • Stock options 5
  • Takeover bids 11
  • Underwriters 1
• Solicitor 87
  • Conduct and the Law Society 28
  • Conflict of interest 26
  • Ethics 39
  • Solicitor-client privilege 31
• Tax 101
  • Aboriginal tax issues 7
  • Anti-avoidance rules 1
  • Appeals 3
  • Audits 5
  • Buying and selling a business 7
  • Capital gains 7
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 4
  • Collection practices and procedures 1
  • Corporate 19
  • Family law tax issues 10
  • Foreign income 4
  • General 6
  • Goods and Services Tax 17
  • 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 2
  • Practice 7
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 14
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 10
  • Reorganizations 4
  • Rollovers 5
  • Sales tax 12
  • Shares and shareholders 6
  • Tax litigation 5
  • Tax planning 6
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 34
• Technology Law 67
  • Intellectual property 9
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 2
  • Online contract formation 3
  • Practice 25
  • Privacy laws 17
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 5
  • Research 13
• Wills Estates and Trusts 103
  • Administration application 19
  • Adult guardianship 24
  • Charitable giving 8
  • Client Relations 22
  • Devolution of assets 26
  • Elder care 28
  • Estate litigation 42
  • Estate planning 58
  • Ethics 18
  • Executors and trustees 27
  • Fiduciary 3
  • General 32
  • Multijurisdictional estates 9
  • Probate application 19
  • Professional Responsibility 24
  • Tax issues 37
  • Trust planning 52
  • Wills 31
• Workers Compensation 27
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 4
  • Claims 15
  • General 12
  • Liability of employer 13
  • Procedure 6
  • Workers Compensation Board 6