Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 126
  • Business and aboriginal law 18
  • Child protection 9
  • Criminal justice system 12
  • Dispute resolution
  • Family law 10
  • General 30
  • Indian Act
  • Indian residential schools 1
  • Lands and title 72
  • Litigation 23
  • Practice 15
  • Rights 46
  • Self-government 30
  • Tax issues 9
  • Treaty Negotiations 25
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 7
  • Wills and estates 3
• Access to Justice 5
  • Children 3
  • General 3
  • Indigenous child welfare 4
  • Trauma-informed practice 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 1
  • Standard of review 6
  • Tribunals 36
• ADR 124
  • Arbitration 54
  • Collaborative law 7
  • Judicial review 7
  • Mediation 56
  • Mediation--family law 30
  • Practice 21
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 35
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 8
  • Appeals 3
  • Directors liability 11
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 7
  • General 23
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 6
  • Priorities 17
  • Promissory notes
  • Proposals 12
  • Receiving orders 4
  • Settlements and preferences 9
  • 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 210
  • Acquisitions and mergers 16
  • Amalgamations 4
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law 3
  • Buying and selling a business 29
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 4
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 15
  • Client Relations 14
  • Commercial litigation 22
  • Competition law 6
  • Continuations 3
  • Contracts 33
  • Corporate finance 23
  • Corporate governance 30
  • Corporate procedures 33
  • Directors 18
  • Dissolution and restoration 3
  • Ethics 12
  • Extra-provincial companies 3
  • Fiduciary 7
  • Franchising 4
  • Fraud 11
  • Incorporation and organization 21
  • International 7
  • Partnerships 9
  • Practice 18
  • Privacy 6
  • Professional Responsibility 15
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 19
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 10
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 25
• Childrens Law 2
  • Access to justice for children 2
  • Child development 1
  • Child protection 1
  • Child rights 1
  • Indigenous child welfare 2
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
• Communications Law 1
• Constitutional Law
  • Charter
  • Division of powers
  • Indigenous
• 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 6
  • Postjudgment remedies 11
  • Prejudgment garnishment 6
  • Priorities 11
  • Proceeding to judgment 3
  • 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 3
  • 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 4
  • Ethics 3
  • Professional responsibility 3
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
• Dispute Resolution
  • Arbitration
  • Choice of forum
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution
  • Mediation
  • Mediation—Family Law
  • Practice
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 1
  • Ethics 1
  • Professional responsibility 1
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
• Employment Law 99
  • Benefits 15
  • Client Relations 7
  • Compensation 14
  • Defamation 4
  • 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
  • Climate change
  • Conservation covenants 2
  • Contaminated sites 12
  • Endangered species 3
  • Environmental assessment 12
  • Environmental protection 14
  • Forest practices 4
  • Indigenous 2
  • Insurance 4
  • Liability 11
  • Waste management 2
• Family Law 154
  • Access to justice for children 1
  • Adoption 5
  • ADR 41
  • Advocacy 1
  • Appeals 4
  • Assessments and reports 2
  • Assisted reproductive technologies
  • Child abduction
  • Child development 1
  • Child protection 35
  • Child rights 2
  • Child support 56
  • Client Relations 34
  • Collaborative law 11
  • Common law spouses 10
  • Conflict of laws 7
  • Costs 7
  • Custody and access 50
  • Division of property 65
  • Divorce 14
  • Dispute resolution
  • Ethics 35
  • Evidence 37
  • Excluded property 3
  • Family law agreements
  • Family violence 3
  • Financial disclosure 1
  • General 30
  • Guardianship 25
  • Indigenous 1
  • Indigenous child welfare 2
  • Interim relief 22
  • Marriage 7
  • Marriage agreements 20
  • Mediation 24
  • Multiculturalism 10
  • Naming children 2
  • Orders 20
  • Parental alienation 1
  • Parenting responsibilities and contact 7
  • 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 1
  • Separation agreements 19
  • Significant unfairness 2
  • Spousal support 60
  • Tax issues 15
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Trusts 2
  • Unjust enrichment
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 20
  • Valuation 1
  • Views of child 2
• FOI and Privacy 64
• Health Law 22
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 117
  • BCHRA 30
  • Charter 54
  • CHRA 8
  • Client Relations 5
  • Discrimination 74
  • Ethics 6
  • Ethics 4
  • General 34
  • Indigenous human rights
  • Procedure 22
  • Professional Responsibility 6
  • Remedies 12
  • Trauma-informed practice
• Immigration 52
  • Admission 32
  • Appeals 20
  • Business immigrants 15
  • Citizenship 15
  • Client Relations 7
  • Detention 2
  • Ethics 7
  • Extradition 14
  • Labour market impact assessment 1
  • Permanent residency 18
  • Policy 21
  • Practice 27
  • Professional Responsibility 6
  • Provincial nominee program 1
  • Refugees 26
  • Tax issues 6
  • Visas 14
  • Work permits 1
• Indigenous Legal Orders 8
  • Child welfare 4
  • Dispute resolution 2
  • Education 1
  • Elders 1
  • Family 2
  • Health 2
  • Intellectual property 1
  • International law 2
  • Lands and titles 3
  • Language 1
  • Legal orders 2
  • Natural resources 2
  • Sovereignty 3
  • Stewardship 2
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
• Insurance 88
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 11
  • Agents 4
  • Bad faith
  • Breach
  • Claims 27
  • Contracts 27
  • 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 24
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 5
  • Computer software and Internet issues 8
  • Copyright 13
  • Disputes
  • Licensing 4
  • Litigation
  • Patents 8
  • Remedies 8
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 15
  • Trade secrets 11
• 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 7
  • Successorship 4
  • Unfair labour practices 8
  • Unions 19
• Legal Research and Writing 11
• Legal Support Staff 93
  • Business law for LSS 14
  • 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 15
  • Foreclosures for LSS 3
  • Paralegals
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 11
  • PPSA for LSS 2
  • Research for LSS 7
  • Securities for LSS 7
• Litigation 448
  • Aboriginal litigation 18
  • Advocacy skills 30
  • Affidavits
  • Appeals 25
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
  • Causes of action 36
  • Chambers applications 54
  • Class actions 52
  • Client Relations 25
  • Commercial litigation 30
  • Conflict of laws 5
  • Constitutional 9
  • Costs 97
  • Damages 35
  • Defamation 8
  • Discovery 88
  • Economic Loss 1
  • Estate litigation 31
  • Ethics 51
  • Evidence 139
  • Experts 105
  • Host Liability 3
  • Infants 6
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
  • Intellectual property litigation 6
  • Juries 21
  • Jurisdiction 38
  • Labour and employment litigation 18
  • Law Reform 11
  • Limitation of actions 11
  • Limitation Periods 16
  • Local government
  • Municipal 11
  • Orders 16
  • Pleadings 81
  • Practice 93
  • Pre-judgment remedies
  • Pre-trial Procedures 46
  • Professional Responsibility 50
  • Real estate litigation 33
  • Registrar practice
  • Releases
  • Remedies 5
  • Reviews 6
  • Securities litigation 6
  • Self-represented litigants
  • Settlement 61
  • Summary trials 25
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 3
  • Torts 23
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trials 83
  • Unrepresented Litigants 45
  • Vicarious liability 13
• Local Government
  • Building regulation
  • Bylaws
  • Contracts
  • Councils
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General
  • Land use planning
  • Licensing
  • Litigation
  • Taxation
  • Zoning
• Maritime Law 2
• Municipal Law 24
  • Actions by and against municipalities 4
  • Bylaws 8
  • Contracts 7
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management 3
  • General 8
  • Land use planning 9
  • Licensing 2
  • Litigation 10
  • Municipal councils 5
  • Powers of municipality 10
  • Subdivision 2
  • Zoning 5
• Natural Resources 22
  • Aboriginal rights 10
  • Fisheries law 4
  • Forestry law 9
  • General 5
  • Indigenous legal orders 2
  • Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship 3
  • Mining law 10
  • Oil and gas law 4
  • Water 3
  • Wildlife 2
• Personal Injury 66
  • Client Relations 11
  • 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 11
  • Structured settlements and judgments 12
  • Tax issues 7
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 270
  • Billing 37
  • Client development 32
  • Client Relations 92
  • Conduct and the Law Society 35
  • Document management 53
  • Employee hiring and retention 21
  • Ethics 128
  • In House Counsel 4
  • Insurance 16
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 29
  • Partnership issues 5
  • Professional Responsibility 12
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
  • Solicitor-client privilege 34
  • Technology 39
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Trust accounting 10
  • Wellness 3
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 158
  • Client Relations 69
  • Ethics 128
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
• 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 30
  • Development rights 9
  • Easement
  • Environmental issues 14
  • Ethics 27
  • Expropriation 4
  • Financing 20
  • Foreclosure 20
  • Government approvals 3
  • Indian Act conveyancing 12
  • Land Title Office 21
  • Legal proceedings 48
  • Licensees
  • Manufactured homes 6
  • Mortgages 33
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 2
  • Professional Responsibility 19
  • 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 10
  • Strata properties--general 40
  • Structure of the developer 1
  • Subdivision 9
  • Surveys 3
  • Tax issues 48
  • Title 13
  • Undertakings 7
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 4
• 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 42
  • Appeals 3
  • BC Securities Commission 10
  • 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 10
  • Private placement 11
  • Public offering 10
  • Regulation 21
  • Searches 2
  • Stockbrokers 1
  • Stock exchanges 11
  • Stock options 5
  • Takeover bids 13
  • Underwriters 1
• Solicitor 88
  • Conduct and the Law Society 29
  • Conflict of interest 26
  • Ethics 39
  • Solicitor-client privilege 30
• Strata Law 6
  • Insurance
  • Strata Corporations 1
  • Strata Plans 2
• 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) 14
  • 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 65
  • Intellectual property 10
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 3
  • Online contract formation 3
  • Practice 24
  • Privacy laws 18
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 5
  • Research 13
• Wills Estates and Trusts 113
  • Administration application 20
  • Adult guardianship 29
  • Charitable giving 9
  • Client Relations 28
  • Committeeship 3
  • Curative provisions 5
  • Devolution of assets 30
  • Elder care 36
  • Estate litigation 51
  • Estate planning 63
  • Ethics 20
  • Executors and trustees 33
  • Fiduciary 4
  • General 32
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 8
  • Life estate 1
  • Multijurisdictional estates 9
  • Passing of accounts
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 6
  • Practice 1
  • Probate application 23
  • Professional Responsibility 25
  • Rectifying wills 3
  • Representation agreement 3
  • Tax issues 44
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Trust planning 59
  • Wills 40
  • Wills challenges 6
• Workers Compensation 31
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 4
  • Claims 19
  • General 16
  • Liability of employer 15
  • Procedure 7
  • Workers Compensation Board 6