Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 137
  • Business and aboriginal law 21
  • Child protection 10
  • Criminal justice system 15
  • Dispute resolution 1
  • Family law 11
  • General 34
  • Indian Act 2
  • Indian residential schools 3
  • Lands and title 75
  • Litigation 25
  • Practice 17
  • Rights 51
  • Self-government 33
  • Tax issues 9
  • Treaty Negotiations 26
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 7
  • Wills and estates 3
• Access to Justice 11
  • Children 5
  • General 5
  • Indigenous child welfare 6
  • Trauma-informed practice 3
• Administrative Law 88
  • Abuse of discretion 5
  • Appellate review 17
  • Bias and impartiality 1
  • Charter cases 21
  • Choice of forum
  • Discipline proceedings 11
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 9
  • Judicial review 60
  • Jurisdiction 22
  • Natural justice 15
  • Parties 1
  • Practice 29
  • Remedies 19
  • Self-represented parties 2
  • Standard of review 8
  • Tribunals 38
• ADR 126
  • Arbitration 52
  • Collaborative law 4
  • Judicial review 9
  • Mediation 56
  • Mediation--family law 31
  • Practice 20
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 38
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 8
  • Appeals 3
  • Directors liability 12
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 7
  • General 26
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 8
  • Priorities 18
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 13
  • Receiving orders 5
  • Settlements and preferences 10
  • Trustees 6
• Builders Liens 19
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien 1
  • Enforcement 1
  • General 1
  • Holdbacks
  • Priority of liens 1
  • Solicitors liability
  • Subcontractors
• Business Law 215
  • Acquisitions and mergers 17
  • Amalgamations 4
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law 3
  • Buying and selling a business 29
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 4
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 16
  • Client Relations 15
  • Commercial litigation 22
  • Competition law 6
  • Continuations 3
  • Contracts 33
  • Corporate finance 24
  • Corporate governance 33
  • Corporate procedures 33
  • Directors 18
  • Dissolution and restoration 3
  • Ethics 13
  • Extra-provincial companies 3
  • Fiduciary 7
  • Franchising 4
  • Fraud 11
  • Incorporation and organization 21
  • International 7
  • Partnerships 10
  • Practice 20
  • Privacy 6
  • Professional Responsibility 17
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 21
  • Shareholder agreements 1
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 11
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 26
• Childrens Law 6
  • Access to justice for children 3
  • Child development 1
  • Child protection 2
  • Child rights 4
  • Indigenous child welfare 4
  • Trauma-informed practice 3
• Communications Law 1
• Constitutional Law 1
  • Charter 1
  • Division of powers
  • Indigenous
• Creditors Remedies 41
  • Acting for the creditor 19
  • Acting for the debtor 16
  • Assets subject to attachment 10
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 11
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 4
  • Consumer Protection 1
  • Equitable remedies 7
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 12
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 7
  • Postjudgment remedies 12
  • Prejudgment garnishment 7
  • Priorities 12
  • Proceeding to judgment 4
  • Promissory notes
  • Repairers liens 2
  • Searches 4
• Criminal Law 67
  • Anti-terrorism 3
  • Appeals 9
  • Charter of Rights 27
  • Client Relations 11
  • Defences 12
  • Domestic violence 2
  • Ethics 11
  • Evidence 34
  • Indigenous legal orders 5
  • Judicial interim release 8
  • Juries 3
  • Offences 28
  • Practice 23
  • Prison law 1
  • Professional Responsibility 17
  • Restorative justice 3
  • Sentencing 23
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
  • Young offenders 7
• Cultural Competency 4
  • Ethics 3
  • Professional responsibility 3
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
• Dispute Resolution 2
  • Arbitration
  • Choice of forum
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution
  • Mediation
  • Mediation—Family Law 2
  • Practice
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 1
  • Ethics 1
  • Professional responsibility 1
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
• Employment Law 104
  • Benefits 15
  • Client Relations 7
  • Compensation 14
  • Defamation 4
  • Discrimination 60
  • Duties and liabilities 33
  • Employment contracts 36
  • Employment standards 35
  • Ethics 4
  • General 37
  • Mandatory Retirement 9
  • Occupational health and safety 31
  • Pensions 14
  • Practice 15
  • Privacy 44
  • Professional Responsibility 7
  • Sexual harassment 19
  • Tax issues 5
  • Wrongful dismissal 41
• Environmental Law 36
  • Climate change 1
  • Conservation covenants 3
  • Contaminated sites 13
  • Endangered species 3
  • Environmental assessment 13
  • Environmental protection 17
  • Forest practices 4
  • Indigenous 4
  • Insurance 4
  • Liability 12
  • Waste management 2
• Family Law 165
  • Access to justice for children 1
  • Adoption 5
  • ADR 42
  • Advocacy 3
  • Appeals 4
  • Assessments and reports 3
  • Assisted reproductive technologies 1
  • Child abduction
  • Child development 2
  • Child protection 36
  • Child rights 2
  • Child support 60
  • Client Relations 39
  • Collaborative law 11
  • Common law spouses 10
  • Conflict of laws 7
  • Costs 8
  • Custody and access 52
  • Division of property 70
  • Divorce 16
  • Dispute resolution 2
  • Ethics 35
  • Evidence 41
  • Excluded property 6
  • Family law agreements 2
  • Family violence 5
  • Financial disclosure 3
  • General 32
  • Guardianship 25
  • Indigenous 1
  • Indigenous child welfare 3
  • Interim relief 23
  • Marriage 9
  • Marriage agreements 21
  • Mediation 25
  • Multiculturalism 10
  • Naming children 2
  • Orders 22
  • Parental alienation 3
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact 9
  • Pensions 10
  • Pleadings 38
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 12
  • Professional Responsibility 31
  • Property Agreements 9
  • Property Agreements 8
  • References to Registrar 2
  • Same-sex couples 6
  • Self-represented Litigants 3
  • Separation agreements 20
  • Significant unfairness 6
  • Spousal support 66
  • Tax issues 16
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Trusts 3
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 21
  • Valuation 5
  • Views of child 3
• FOI and Privacy 66
• Health Law 23
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 122
  • BCHRA 32
  • Charter 55
  • CHRA 9
  • Client Relations 6
  • Discrimination 76
  • Ethics 7
  • Ethics 5
  • General 37
  • Indigenous human rights 2
  • Procedure 24
  • Professional Responsibility 7
  • Remedies 13
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Immigration 54
  • Admission 33
  • Appeals 21
  • Business immigrants 16
  • Citizenship 15
  • Client Relations 8
  • Detention 3
  • Ethics 7
  • Extradition 14
  • Labour market impact assessment 3
  • Permanent residency 19
  • Policy 21
  • Practice 28
  • Professional Responsibility 6
  • Provincial nominee program 1
  • Refugees 27
  • Tax issues 6
  • Visas 15
  • Work permits 3
• Indigenous Legal Orders 16
  • Child welfare 5
  • Dispute resolution 3
  • Education 2
  • Elders 2
  • Family 3
  • Health 3
  • Intellectual property 2
  • International law 3
  • Lands and titles 4
  • Language 2
  • Legal orders 4
  • Natural resources 2
  • Sovereignty 6
  • Stewardship 4
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
• Insurance 91
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 11
  • Agents 4
  • Bad faith
  • Breach
  • Claims 28
  • Contracts 29
  • Damages 12
  • Defences 21
  • Directors and officers insurance 8
  • Duties and liabilities 12
  • Exclusions 19
  • Fire insurance 5
  • Homeowners insurance 16
  • Lawyers liability insurance 8
  • Liability insurance generally 34
  • Life insurance 9
  • Litigation 34
  • Local government
  • Motor vehicle insurance 20
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 5
  • Property and loss of income insurance 7
  • Strata
  • Subrogation 17
• Intellectual Property 25
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 5
  • Computer software and Internet issues 9
  • Copyright 14
  • Disputes 1
  • Licensing 5
  • Litigation 1
  • Patents 9
  • Remedies 8
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 16
  • Trade secrets 12
• Labour Law 41
  • Arbitration 25
  • Certification and decertification 9
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 16
  • Industrial disputes 2
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 16
  • Picketing 4
  • Practice 8
  • Successorship 5
  • Unfair labour practices 8
  • Unions 21
• Legal Research and Writing 11
• Legal Support Staff 96
  • Business law for LSS 14
  • Civil litigation for LSS 21
  • Collections for LSS 3
  • Conveyancing for LSS 8
  • Corporate records for LSS 7
  • Estate administration for LSS 11
  • Family law for LSS 16
  • Foreclosures for LSS 3
  • Paralegals 1
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 11
  • PPSA for LSS 2
  • Research for LSS 7
  • Securities for LSS 7
• Litigation 466
  • Aboriginal litigation 18
  • Advocacy skills 36
  • Affidavits 2
  • Appeals 26
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
  • Causes of action 40
  • Chambers applications 55
  • Class actions 55
  • Client Relations 26
  • Commercial litigation 31
  • Conflict of laws 5
  • Constitutional 9
  • Costs 97
  • Damages 37
  • Defamation 11
  • Discovery 91
  • Economic Loss 2
  • Estate litigation 31
  • Ethics 53
  • Evidence 142
  • Experts 107
  • Host Liability 3
  • Infants 6
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
  • Intellectual property litigation 7
  • Juries 21
  • Jurisdiction 39
  • Labour and employment litigation 18
  • Law Reform 12
  • Limitation of actions 11
  • Limitation Periods 16
  • Local government 1
  • Municipal 11
  • Orders 17
  • Pleadings 82
  • Practice 100
  • Pre-judgment remedies 2
  • Pre-trial Procedures 48
  • Professional Responsibility 53
  • Real estate litigation 34
  • Registrar practice 2
  • Releases
  • Remedies 6
  • Reviews 6
  • Securities litigation 7
  • Self-represented litigants
  • Settlement 61
  • Summary trials 25
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 3
  • Torts 25
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
  • Trials 84
  • Unrepresented Litigants 45
  • 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 25
  • Aboriginal rights 11
  • Fisheries law 6
  • Forestry law 9
  • General 6
  • Indigenous legal orders 2
  • Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship 4
  • Mining law 11
  • Oil and gas law 4
  • Water 4
  • Wildlife 3
• Personal Injury 69
  • Client Relations 11
  • Costs 2
  • Damages 35
  • Defences 21
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 10
  • Experts 1
  • Family compensation claims 6
  • Host Liability 6
  • Injuries 36
  • Insurance 18
  • Mediation 10
  • Medical malpractice 6
  • Motor vehicle accidents 35
  • Occupiers liability 6
  • Part 7 benefits 25
  • Practice 39
  • Professional Responsibility 11
  • Structured settlements and judgments 12
  • Tax issues 7
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 293
  • Billing 37
  • Client development 34
  • Client Relations 98
  • Conduct and the Law Society 37
  • Document management 54
  • Employee hiring and retention 24
  • Ethics 133
  • In House Counsel 5
  • Insurance 17
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 34
  • Partnership issues 7
  • Professional Responsibility 21
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
  • Solicitor-client privilege 36
  • Technology 45
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Trust accounting 12
  • Wellness 15
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 160
  • Client Relations 70
  • Ethics 129
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
• Real Estate 173
  • Affidavits
  • Agents and brokers 5
  • Assessment 13
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 7
  • Certificate of pending litigation
  • Charges on title 14
  • Client Relations 25
  • Closing procedures 22
  • Commercial leases 31
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 28
  • Construction litigation 26
  • Conveyancing practice 24
  • Development cost charges 6
  • Development--general 31
  • Development rights 9
  • Easement
  • Environmental issues 14
  • Ethics 29
  • Expropriation 4
  • Financing 21
  • Foreclosure 22
  • Government approvals 3
  • Indian Act conveyancing 12
  • Land Title Office 22
  • Legal proceedings 49
  • Licensees
  • Manufactured homes 6
  • Mortgages 36
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 3
  • Professional Responsibility 20
  • Purchase contract 29
  • Residential tenancies 11
  • Searches and investigations 11
  • Site development control 3
  • Statements of adjustments 4
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 21
  • Strata plans 13
  • Strata properties--general 46
  • Structure of the developer 1
  • Subdivision 10
  • Surveys 3
  • Tax issues 51
  • Title 15
  • Undertakings 8
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 6
• School Law 13
• Secured Transactions 15
  • Chattel mortgages 1
  • Conflict of laws 2
  • Debtor protection 2
  • Due diligence 5
  • Enforcement 6
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 6
  • General 6
  • Intellectual property 2
  • Loans 1
  • Mortgages 5
  • Perfection 2
  • Purchase money security interests 3
  • Receivers 1
  • Registration 4
  • Security agreements 6
  • Security interests 5
• Securities 43
  • Appeals 3
  • BC Securities Commission 11
  • Disclosure 26
  • Due diligence 6
  • General 26
  • Hearings 4
  • Investigations 5
  • Judicial review 5
  • Local Policy Statements 4
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 4
  • Offences 12
  • Orders 6
  • Practice 11
  • Private placement 11
  • Public offering 11
  • Regulation 22
  • Searches 2
  • Stockbrokers 1
  • Stock exchanges 12
  • Stock options 5
  • Takeover bids 14
  • Underwriters 2
• Solicitor 88
  • Conduct and the Law Society 29
  • Conflict of interest 26
  • Ethics 39
  • Solicitor-client privilege 30
• Strata Law 10
  • Insurance 1
  • Strata Corporations 4
  • Strata Plans 4
• Tax 103
  • Aboriginal tax issues 7
  • Anti-avoidance rules 1
  • Appeals 3
  • Audits 6
  • Buying and selling a business 6
  • 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 6
  • Goods and Services Tax 20
  • Income splitting and attribution rules 2
  • Income tax 9
  • 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 7
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 16
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 11
  • Reorganizations 3
  • Rollovers 5
  • Sales tax 14
  • Shares and shareholders 6
  • Tax litigation 5
  • Tax planning 7
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 35
• Technology Law 68
  • Intellectual property 10
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 3
  • Online contract formation 3
  • Practice 25
  • Privacy laws 20
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 5
  • Research 13
• Wills Estates and Trusts 121
  • Administration application 20
  • Adult guardianship 30
  • Charitable giving 10
  • Client Relations 33
  • Committeeship 4
  • Curative provisions 5
  • Devolution of assets 33
  • Elder care 38
  • Estate litigation 55
  • Estate planning 67
  • Ethics 21
  • Executors and trustees 34
  • Fiduciary 4
  • General 32
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 13
  • Life estate 1
  • Multijurisdictional estates 9
  • Passing of accounts
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 8
  • Practice 2
  • Probate application 24
  • Professional Responsibility 28
  • Rectifying wills 3
  • Representation agreement 5
  • Tax issues 47
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trust planning 62
  • Wills 43
  • Wills challenges 8
• Workers Compensation 32
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 4
  • Claims 19
  • General 17
  • Liability of employer 15
  • Procedure 7
  • Workers Compensation Board 6