Resources
Below you can find a list of useful resources for legal
information available for free on the internet:
Law Society of British Columbia
PLTC Notes
If
you're not afraid to get your hands dirty, the Law Society of
British Columbia has recently started publishing its Professional
Legal
Training Course materials on the internet.
PLTC, often referred to as Bar School,
is a 10-week super intensive course every aspiring lawyer must pass to
be licensed for practice in BC. The information is available
in Adobe pdf format (accessible via free Adobe
Reader software), and
covers a wide range of legal topics including:
- Civil
Litigation
-
Creditors Remedies
- Criminal
Procedure
- Family
-
Commercial
- Company
- Estates
- Real
Estate
-
Law Practice Management
- Lawyer Standards of Professional
Responsibility
Take your
time browsing through it.... the information is designed for
junior lawyers, so it's not easy reading, but there's nowhere else on
the internet where you'll
find such a wealth of updated, organized, annotated (reference to case
law) legal information for free. Please remember to review the Law Society of BC's Terms of Use regarding content on its web site.
The Law
Society of British Columbia
To contact the organization entrusted with training,
licensing and regulating all lawyers in British Columbia, please see
the Law Society of
BC website.
British
Columbia Courthouse Library
If
you would like to do some additional research, you should consider
the British
Columbia Courthouse Library, where all court cases and
statutes can be accessed by the public for free. This is where lawyers,
including me, do all our research!
BC
Court Services
For
information on BC's various law courts, including rules,
forms, fees, addresses and contact information, please see the
Ministry
of Attorney General of BC Court Services website.
BC Provincial, Supreme
Court and Court of Appeal Judgment Database
You can also search and read recent BC Provincial (Small
Claims)
Court, Supreme Court and Court of Appeal judgments
online at the Courts
of British
Columbia website.
Land
Title and Survey Authority of BC
Registry
fees and other information for Residential Conveyancing can be
found on the Land
Title and Survey Authority of BC website.
Citizenship
and Immigration Canada and HRSDC
For
information on immigration, Citizenship
and Immigration Canada's
website is truly the best resource... it is thorough and easy to
navigate. Additional information on work permits and corresponding
exemptions, as well as Arranged Offers of Employment, can be found on Human Resources
and Social Development
Canada's website.
Personal
Property Registry
For information on how the Personal
Property Registry works, in regards to personal property security
liens, please see the Ministry
of Labour and Citizens' Services website.
I will post
additional resources as they become available.
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