Courses On Demand

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 144
  • Business and aboriginal law 25
  • Child protection 10
  • Criminal justice system 16
  • Dispute resolution 2
  • Family law 11
  • General 38
  • Indian Act 3
  • Indian residential schools 5
  • Lands and title 76
  • Litigation 27
  • Practice 19
  • Rights 53
  • Self-government 35
  • Tax issues 10
  • Treaty Negotiations 27
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 7
  • Wills and estates 3
• Access to Justice 12
  • Children 5
  • General 6
  • Indigenous child welfare 6
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
• Administrative Law 93
  • 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 1
  • Practice 32
  • Remedies 20
  • Self-represented parties 2
  • Standard of review 9
  • Tribunals 41
• ADR 128
  • Arbitration 53
  • Collaborative law 4
  • Judicial review 9
  • Mediation 58
  • Mediation--family law 32
  • Practice 22
• 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 21
  • Builders lien trusts
  • Discharging lien 1
  • Enforcement 1
  • General 2
  • Holdbacks
  • Priority of liens 1
  • Solicitors liability
  • Subcontractors
• Business Law 220
  • Acquisitions and mergers 18
  • Amalgamations 4
  • Asset purchase agreement
  • Banking law 3
  • Buying and selling a business 29
  • Cannabis
  • Capital alterations 5
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 16
  • Client Relations 15
  • Commercial litigation 22
  • Competition law 6
  • Continuations 3
  • Contracts 35
  • Corporate finance 25
  • Corporate governance 34
  • Corporate procedures 33
  • Directors 19
  • 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 7
  • Professional Responsibility 17
  • Promissory notes
  • Releases
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 22
  • Shareholder agreements 1
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shares 11
  • Statutory declaration
  • Tax issues 27
• 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 70
  • Anti-terrorism 3
  • Appeals 9
  • Charter of Rights 28
  • Client Relations 12
  • Defences 13
  • Domestic violence 2
  • Ethics 12
  • Evidence 36
  • Indigenous legal orders 6
  • Judicial interim release 8
  • Juries 3
  • Offences 30
  • Practice 24
  • Prison law 1
  • Professional Responsibility 18
  • Restorative justice 3
  • Sentencing 23
  • Trauma-informed practice 4
  • Young offenders 7
• Cultural Competency 12
  • Ethics 3
  • Professional responsibility 3
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
• Dispute Resolution 4
  • Arbitration 1
  • Choice of forum
  • Collaborative law
  • Indigenous dispute resolution 1
  • Mediation 1
  • Mediation—Family Law 2
  • Practice 1
• Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 1
  • Ethics 1
  • Professional responsibility 1
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
• Employment Law 108
  • Benefits 15
  • Client Relations 7
  • Compensation 15
  • Defamation 5
  • Discrimination 61
  • Duties and liabilities 33
  • Employment contracts 37
  • Employment standards 35
  • Ethics 4
  • General 39
  • Mandatory Retirement 9
  • Occupational health and safety 33
  • Pensions 14
  • Practice 15
  • Privacy 44
  • Professional Responsibility 7
  • Sexual harassment 20
  • Tax issues 5
  • Wrongful dismissal 41
• 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 169
  • Access to justice for children 1
  • Adoption 5
  • ADR 42
  • Advocacy 3
  • Appeals 4
  • Assessments and reports 3
  • Assisted reproductive technologies 2
  • Child abduction 1
  • Child development 2
  • Child protection 37
  • Child rights 2
  • Child support 60
  • Client Relations 40
  • Collaborative law 11
  • Common law spouses 10
  • Conflict of laws 7
  • Costs 8
  • Custody and access 53
  • Division of property 70
  • Divorce 16
  • Dispute resolution 2
  • Ethics 36
  • Evidence 41
  • Excluded property 6
  • Family law agreements 2
  • Family violence 6
  • Financial disclosure 4
  • General 33
  • Guardianship 26
  • Indigenous 2
  • 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 7
  • Self-represented Litigants 3
  • Separation agreements 21
  • Significant unfairness 6
  • Spousal support 66
  • Tax issues 16
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
  • Trusts 4
  • Unjust enrichment 1
  • Unmarried spouses
  • Unrepresented Litigants 21
  • Valuation 5
  • Views of child 3
• 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 23
  • Child welfare 5
  • Dispute resolution 4
  • Education 2
  • Elders 2
  • Family 4
  • Health 3
  • Intellectual property 2
  • International law 5
  • Lands and titles 5
  • Language 2
  • Legal orders 15
  • Natural resources 3
  • Sovereignty 8
  • Stewardship 6
  • Trauma-informed practice 5
• Insurance 93
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 11
  • Agents 5
  • Bad faith
  • Breach
  • Claims 30
  • 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 26
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 5
  • Computer software and Internet issues 9
  • Copyright 14
  • 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 97
  • 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 12
  • Family law for LSS 16
  • Foreclosures for LSS 3
  • Paralegals 2
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 11
  • PPSA for LSS 2
  • Research for LSS 7
  • Securities for LSS 7
• Litigation 478
  • Aboriginal litigation 19
  • Advocacy skills 39
  • Affidavits 4
  • Appeals 28
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
  • Causes of action 41
  • Chambers applications 58
  • Class actions 57
  • Client Relations 27
  • Commercial litigation 31
  • Conflict of laws 5
  • Constitutional 10
  • Costs 98
  • Damages 38
  • Defamation 11
  • Discovery 92
  • Economic Loss 2
  • Estate litigation 33
  • Ethics 55
  • Evidence 147
  • 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 105
  • Pre-judgment remedies 2
  • Pre-trial Procedures 49
  • Professional Responsibility 56
  • Real estate litigation 36
  • 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 26
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
  • Trials 85
  • 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 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 70
  • 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 19
  • Mediation 10
  • Medical malpractice 6
  • Motor vehicle accidents 36
  • Occupiers liability 6
  • Part 7 benefits 25
  • Practice 39
  • Professional Responsibility 12
  • Structured settlements and judgments 12
  • Tax issues 7
  • Trauma-informed practice
  • Underinsured motorist protection
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 306
  • Billing 39
  • Client development 35
  • Client Relations 101
  • Conduct and the Law Society 37
  • Document management 54
  • Employee hiring and retention 25
  • Ethics 137
  • In House Counsel 5
  • Insurance 17
  • Lawyers and the media
  • Management and organization of firms 34
  • Partnership issues 7
  • Professional Responsibility 26
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
  • Solicitor-client privilege 37
  • Technology 50
  • Trauma-informed practice 3
  • Trust accounting 13
  • Wellness 16
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 163
  • Client Relations 71
  • Ethics 132
  • Trauma-informed practice 2
• Real Estate 176
  • Affidavits 1
  • Agents and brokers 7
  • Assessment 13
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 8
  • Certificate of pending litigation 2
  • Charges on title 16
  • Client Relations 27
  • Closing procedures 24
  • Commercial leases 32
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 28
  • Construction litigation 27
  • Conveyancing practice 26
  • Development cost charges 6
  • Development--general 33
  • Development rights 9
  • Easement 1
  • Environmental issues 16
  • Ethics 30
  • Expropriation 4
  • Financing 23
  • Foreclosure 22
  • Government approvals 3
  • Indian Act conveyancing 12
  • Land Title Office 24
  • Legal proceedings 51
  • Licensees
  • Manufactured homes 6
  • Mortgages 38
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 3
  • Professional Responsibility 22
  • Purchase contract 30
  • Residential tenancies 12
  • Searches and investigations 13
  • Site development control 3
  • Statements of adjustments 5
  • Statutory declarations
  • Strata corporations 22
  • Strata plans 14
  • Strata properties--general 46
  • Structure of the developer 1
  • Subdivision 11
  • Surveys 4
  • Tax issues 53
  • Title 17
  • Undertakings 10
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 7
• School Law 13
• Secured Transactions 15
  • Chattel mortgages 1
  • Conflict of laws 2
  • Debtor protection 3
  • 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 2
  • Registration 4
  • Security agreements 6
  • Security interests 5
• Securities 46
  • Appeals 3
  • BC Securities Commission 13
  • Disclosure 28
  • Due diligence 6
  • General 27
  • 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 11
  • Public offering 11
  • Regulation 23
  • Searches 2
  • Stockbrokers 1
  • Stock exchanges 12
  • 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 12
  • Insurance 1
  • Strata Corporations 4
  • Strata Plans 5
• Tax 105
  • 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 22
  • 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 7
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 18
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 13
  • Reorganizations 3
  • Rollovers 5
  • Sales tax 16
  • Shares and shareholders 6
  • Tax litigation 6
  • Tax planning 7
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 35
• Technology Law 71
  • Intellectual property 11
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 4
  • Online contract formation 4
  • Practice 26
  • Privacy laws 21
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 5
  • Research 14
• Wills Estates and Trusts 125
  • Administration application 21
  • Adult guardianship 31
  • Charitable giving 11
  • Client Relations 33
  • Committeeship 4
  • Curative provisions 6
  • Devolution of assets 35
  • Elder care 38
  • Estate litigation 57
  • Estate planning 71
  • Ethics 22
  • Executors and trustees 37
  • Fiduciary 4
  • General 33
  • Incapacity planning and capacity issues 15
  • Life estate 1
  • Multijurisdictional estates 9
  • Passing of accounts 2
  • Pensions
  • Power of attorney 10
  • Practice 5
  • Probate application 26
  • Professional Responsibility 28
  • Rectifying wills 4
  • Representation agreement 6
  • Tax issues 49
  • Trauma-informed practice 1
  • Trust planning 65
  • Wills 46
  • Wills challenges 10
• Workers Compensation 34
  • Assessments 1
  • Benefits 5
  • Claims 20
  • General 18
  • Liability of employer 17
  • Procedure 9
  • Workers Compensation Board 7