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Online Practice Manuals

Convenient and time-saving, CLEBC’s Online Practice Manuals allow you to access your favourite CLEBC publications anytime, anywhere.

Online Practice Manuals offer you:

• fully searchable text to save you research time by eliminating the need to look through physical volumes
• direct links from the online publication to full text of case law and legislation
• document builder function for select publications to help you draft complete documents from a bank of prepared clauses

Courses on Demand

Explore an archive of 2,800+ presentations from CLEBC courses and 5,500+ course papers. Quickly look for the courses, presentations, and papers you want by title, topic, or contributor.

Online Course Materials

CLEBC’s Online Course Materials service is only a click away. Access our vault of over 4,400 papers produced for CLEBC courses held since 2001.

Written by leading BC lawyers and judges, the papers in Online Course Materials contain discussions of substantive law, extensive commentary, practice tips, and unreported trial and appellate decisions for your practice area.

We’ve designed Online Course Materials so that you can browse for what you need by practice area and search for what you want by course name, paper title, author, or keyword. Our papers are in PDF format and easily downloadable onto your desktop.

Self-Paced eLearning & Toolkits

Self-Paced eLearning offers one to two-hour programs on various topics including ethics and practice management. These short online programs are interactive, with quiz questions interspersed between video clips and reference materials about the topic covered.

CLEBC’s Toolkits provide you with online practice support and skill development. Each Toolkit contains video demonstrations, explanations, and commentary along with text resources such as practice tips, checklists, and precedents.

Advocacy Toolkit

CLEBC’s award-winning Advocacy Toolkit is designed to assist lawyers with limited recent court experience. The Advocacy Toolkit follows a single fact pattern and features short videos demonstrating effective and ineffective examples of 10 essential oral advocacy skills. Each video is annotated with commentary and explanations on how to make a more effective oral presentation. The skills demonstrated include:

• theory of the case
• opening
• chambers applications
• examination for discovery
• direct examination
• cross-examination
• refreshing memory
• objections
• impeaching the witness through prior inconsistent statement
• closing

CLEBC Precedent Collection

Save hours of drafting time with CLEBC Precedent Collection offering hundreds of regularly updated online forms and precedents in a broad range of practice areas. Quickly find the template you need by keyword searching the collection or by browsing by practice area.

With each form or precedent, you can:

• Review a short description on when and how to use the template
• Download it to your desktop in Word or PDF format
• Subscribe to an RSS feed to follow updates on the form or precedent you choose

Case Digest Connection

Timely and convenient, the Case Digest Connection service provides you with digests of cases decided by the British Columbia superior courts, selected Provincial Court decisions, and Supreme Court of Canada cases originating from BC.

Each digest includes:

• a summary of the case
• indexing terms of the legal issues involved
• names of counsel, judges, and expert witnesses
• key case authorities considered
• court information
• links directly to the judgment’s full text