Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 118
  • Business and aboriginal law 18
  • Child protection 9
  • Criminal justice system 11
  • Family law 10
  • General 29
  • Lands and title 69
  • Litigation 23
  • Practice 13
  • Rights 42
  • Self-government 29
  • Tax issues 10
  • Treaty Negotiations 25
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 7
  • Wills and estates 2
• Administrative Law 75
  • Abuse of discretion 5
  • Appellate review 16
  • Charter cases 18
  • Discipline proceedings 10
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 8
  • Judicial review 52
  • Jurisdiction 17
  • Natural justice 15
  • Practice 26
  • Remedies 18
  • Tribunals 35
• ADR 121
  • Arbitration 52
  • Collaborative law 7
  • Judicial review 7
  • Mediation 57
  • Mediation--family law 29
  • Practice 21
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 31
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 7
  • Appeals 3
  • Directors liability 11
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 7
  • General 21
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 6
  • Priorities 16
  • Proposals 11
  • Receiving orders 4
  • Settlements and preferences 9
  • Trustees 6
• Builders Liens 18
• Business Law 202
  • Acquisitions and mergers 15
  • Amalgamations 4
  • Banking law 3
  • Buying and selling a business 26
  • Capital alterations 3
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 15
  • Client Relations 13
  • Commercial litigation 21
  • Competition law 5
  • Continuations 3
  • Contracts 32
  • Corporate finance 20
  • Corporate governance 29
  • Corporate procedures 33
  • Directors 18
  • Dissolution and restoration 3
  • Ethics 11
  • Extra-provincial companies 3
  • Fiduciary 7
  • Franchising 4
  • Fraud 10
  • Incorporation and organization 21
  • International 5
  • Partnerships 9
  • Practice 18
  • Privacy 7
  • Professional Responsibility 15
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 16
  • Shares 10
  • Tax issues 25
• Communications Law 1
• Creditors Remedies 35
  • Acting for the creditor 16
  • Acting for the debtor 14
  • Assets subject to attachment 8
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 8
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 3
  • Consumer Protection 1
  • Equitable remedies 6
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 10
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 5
  • Postjudgment remedies 10
  • Prejudgment garnishment 6
  • Priorities 9
  • Proceeding to judgment 2
  • Repairers liens 1
  • Searches 4
• Criminal Law 55
  • Anti-terrorism 1
  • Appeals 7
  • Charter of Rights 23
  • Client Relations 6
  • Defences 10
  • Ethics 9
  • Evidence 28
  • Judicial interim release 6
  • Juries 2
  • Offences 22
  • Practice 17
  • Professional Responsibility 13
  • Sentencing 18
  • Young offenders 4
• Employment Law 99
  • Benefits 15
  • Client Relations 7
  • Compensation 13
  • Defamation 5
  • Discrimination 58
  • Duties and liabilities 31
  • Employment contracts 33
  • Employment standards 33
  • Ethics 4
  • General 33
  • Mandatory Retirement 9
  • Occupational health and safety 30
  • Pensions 14
  • Practice 12
  • Privacy 42
  • Professional Responsibility 7
  • Sexual harassment 16
  • Tax issues 4
  • Wrongful dismissal 38
• Environmental Law 29
  • Conservation covenants 2
  • Contaminated sites 11
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 11
  • Environmental protection 13
  • Forest practices 3
  • Insurance 4
  • Liability 11
  • Waste management 2
• Family Law 141
  • Adoption 5
  • ADR 39
  • Advocacy
  • Appeals 4
  • Child protection 33
  • Child support 53
  • Client Relations 31
  • Collaborative law 11
  • Common law spouses 10
  • Conflict of laws 6
  • Costs 7
  • Custody and access 51
  • Division of property 58
  • Divorce 12
  • Ethics 33
  • Evidence 34
  • General 29
  • Guardianship 24
  • Interim relief 22
  • Marriage 7
  • Marriage agreements 19
  • Mediation 23
  • Multiculturalism 10
  • Naming children 2
  • Orders 17
  • Pensions 8
  • Pleadings 34
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 11
  • Professional Responsibility 27
  • Property Agreements 9
  • Property Agreements 8
  • References to Registrar 1
  • Same-sex couples 6
  • Separation agreements 17
  • Spousal support 56
  • Tax issues 14
  • Unrepresented Litigants 21
• FOI and Privacy 64
• Health Law 22
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 113
  • BCHRA 30
  • Charter 53
  • CHRA 8
  • Client Relations 5
  • Discrimination 72
  • Ethics 6
  • Ethics 4
  • General 33
  • Procedure 22
  • Professional Responsibility 6
  • Remedies 12
• Immigration 52
  • Admission 32
  • Appeals 20
  • Business immigrants 15
  • Citizenship 15
  • Client Relations 7
  • Ethics 7
  • Extradition 14
  • Permanent residency 17
  • Policy 21
  • Practice 27
  • Professional Responsibility 6
  • Refugees 26
  • Tax issues 6
  • Visas 14
• Insurance 85
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 11
  • Agents 4
  • Claims 27
  • Contracts 28
  • 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 8
  • Litigation 31
  • Motor vehicle insurance 17
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 5
  • Property and loss of income insurance 6
  • Subrogation 17
• Intellectual Property 22
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 5
  • Computer software and Internet issues 8
  • Copyright 13
  • Licensing 4
  • Patents 8
  • Remedies 8
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 14
  • 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 6
  • Successorship 4
  • Unfair labour practices 8
  • Unions 18
• Legal Research and Writing 11
• Legal Support Staff 88
  • Business law for LSS 12
  • Civil litigation for LSS 19
  • Collections for LSS 3
  • Conveyancing for LSS 7
  • Corporate records for LSS 7
  • Estate administration for LSS 10
  • Family law for LSS 14
  • 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 17
  • Advocacy skills 27
  • Appeals 25
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
  • Causes of action 36
  • Chambers applications 54
  • Class actions 50
  • Client Relations 25
  • Commercial litigation 30
  • Conflict of laws 5
  • Constitutional 8
  • Costs 97
  • Damages 35
  • Defamation 7
  • Discovery 88
  • Economic Loss 1
  • Estate litigation 30
  • Ethics 53
  • Evidence 134
  • Experts 103
  • 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 10
  • Limitation of actions 11
  • Limitation Periods 16
  • Municipal 10
  • Orders 16
  • Pleadings 80
  • Practice 92
  • Pre-trial Procedures 44
  • Professional Responsibility 53
  • Real estate litigation 33
  • Remedies 5
  • Reviews 5
  • Securities litigation 6
  • Settlement 59
  • Summary trials 25
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 3
  • Torts 23
  • Trials 81
  • Unrepresented Litigants 44
  • Vicarious liability 13
• Maritime Law 2
• Municipal Law 21
  • Actions by and against municipalities 4
  • Bylaws 7
  • Contracts 6
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management 3
  • General 6
  • Land use planning 8
  • Licensing 2
  • Litigation 10
  • Municipal councils 5
  • Powers of municipality 9
  • Subdivision 1
  • Zoning 4
• Natural Resources 19
  • Aboriginal rights 8
  • Fisheries law 2
  • Forestry law 7
  • General 4
  • Mining law 10
  • Oil and gas law 4
  • Water 2
  • Wildlife 1
• Personal Injury 63
  • Client Relations 11
  • Damages 32
  • Defences 18
  • Ethics 10
  • Family compensation claims 6
  • Host Liability 6
  • Injuries 31
  • Insurance 17
  • Mediation 10
  • Medical malpractice 5
  • Motor vehicle accidents 32
  • Occupiers liability 5
  • Part 7 benefits 23
  • Practice 35
  • Professional Responsibility 13
  • Structured settlements and judgments 11
  • Tax issues 7
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 268
  • Billing 37
  • Client development 30
  • Client Relations 91
  • Conduct and the Law Society 36
  • Document management 50
  • Employee hiring and retention 21
  • Ethics 122
  • In House Counsel 3
  • Insurance 16
  • Management and organization of firms 30
  • Partnership issues 5
  • Professional Responsibility 9
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
  • Solicitor-client privilege 34
  • Technology 37
  • Trust accounting 9
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 154
  • Client Relations 63
  • Ethics 122
• Real Estate 156
  • Agents and brokers 5
  • Assessment 9
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 6
  • Charges on title 13
  • Client Relations 20
  • Closing procedures 20
  • Commercial leases 28
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 26
  • Construction litigation 21
  • Conveyancing practice 18
  • Development cost charges 5
  • Development--general 26
  • Development rights 8
  • Environmental issues 13
  • Ethics 23
  • Expropriation 3
  • Financing 16
  • Foreclosure 18
  • Government approvals 3
  • Indian Act conveyancing 11
  • Land Title Office 15
  • Legal proceedings 45
  • Manufactured homes 6
  • Mortgages 29
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 2
  • Professional Responsibility 15
  • Purchase contract 24
  • Residential tenancies 10
  • Searches and investigations 8
  • Site development control 3
  • Statements of adjustments 2
  • Strata corporations 18
  • Strata plans 8
  • Strata properties--general 36
  • Structure of the developer 1
  • Subdivision 8
  • Surveys 2
  • Tax issues 44
  • Title 11
  • Undertakings 6
  • 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 11
  • Disclosure 24
  • Due diligence 5
  • General 24
  • 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 31
• Tax 95
  • Aboriginal tax issues 7
  • Anti-avoidance rules
  • 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 4
  • 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 9
  • 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 58
  • Intellectual property 9
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 3
  • Online contract formation 3
  • Practice 22
  • Privacy laws 16
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 5
  • Research 13
• Wills Estates and Trusts 105
  • Administration application 19
  • Adult guardianship 26
  • Charitable giving 8
  • Client Relations 27
  • Devolution of assets 26
  • Elder care 33
  • Estate litigation 47
  • Estate planning 59
  • Ethics 19
  • Executors and trustees 30
  • Fiduciary 3
  • General 29
  • Multijurisdictional estates 9
  • Probate application 20
  • Professional Responsibility 23
  • Tax issues 41
  • Trust planning 56
  • Wills 34
• Workers Compensation 30
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 4
  • Claims 18
  • General 15
  • Liability of employer 15
  • Procedure 6
  • Workers Compensation Board 6