Relied on by a generation of lawyers and judges, British Columbia Annual Practice provides comprehensive, accurate, and highly credible expert insight on the Supreme Court Civil Rules.

Main Volume

All needed practice tools are contained in one volume that includes:

• The Supreme Court Civil Rules and Supreme Court Family Rules, fully annotated with thousands of authors' personally selected cases (both reported and unreported)
• Court of Appeal Rules, Supreme Court Act, and Court of Appeal Act also fully annotated with thousands of authors' personally selected cases (both reported and unreported)
• Practice Directions/Directives and Notices to the Profession
• An in-depth procedural guide explaining the procedures associated with the Civil Rules
• Two-way tables of concordance of the old and new Civil Rules and Family Rules

Forms and Small Claims Volume:

• Forms that relate to Supreme Court Civil Rules, Supreme Court Family Rules, Court of Appeal Rules, and Notice to Mediate Regulations
• Small Claims Act, Small Claims Rules, and Practice Directions
• The full text of 24 key statutes

New in this edition:

Legislation has been updated to British Columbia Gazette Vol. 65:6 (March 29, 2022); Federal Gazette Vol. 156:13 (June 22, 2022):

• B.C. Supreme Court Civil Rules B.C. Reg. 168/2009 is current to BC reg. 8/2022
• Small Claims Rules, B.C. Reg. 261/93 is current to B.C. Reg. 191/2021
• Effective July 18, 2022, the Court of Appeal Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 77 was repealed and replaced by the Court of Appeal Act, S.B.C. 2021, c.6.
• Effective July 18, 2022, the Court of Appeal Rules, B.C. Reg. 297/2001, have been repealed and replaced by the Court of Appeal Rules B.C. Reg.20/2022.

Two concordances have been added to this edition: 1) correlates the sections of the repealed Court of Appeal Act with the sections of the new Court of Appeal Act, and 2) correlates to the provisions of the repealed Court of Appeal Rules with the provisions of the new Court of Appeal Rules

Updated Notices, Practice Directions, and Practice Directives

Updated Procedural Guide

Updated Case Law, including:

• Civil Rules 23-1(1) Registry Operations – Copy of Document Filed in Registry - Sherman Estate v. Donovan, 2021 SCC 25 – Reviews the two-step test set out in Sierra Club of Canada v. Canada (Minister of Finance), 2002 SCC 41
• Civil Rule 3-3 Responding to notice of Civil Claim, Civil Rule 3-4 Counterclaim, Civil Rule 3(5) Third Party Claims, Civil Rule 3-7 Pleadings Generally - Mercantile Office Systems Private Limited v. Worldwide Warranty Life Services Inc., 2021 BCCA 362 – Discusses what can be included in materials that are filed with the court.
• Civil Rule 6-1 Amendment of Pleadings - Kwikwetlem First Nation v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 2021 BCCA 311 – Reviews the principles to consider in applications to amend pleadings.
• Civil Rule 7-7 Admissions - Findlay v. George, 2021 BCCA 12 – Considers Notice to Admit as proof of the truth of the contents of one or more documents.
• Civil Rule 9-7 Summary Trial, Civil Rule 16-1 Petitions - Cepuran v. Carleton, 2022 BCCA 76 – The case reviews the scope of the summary trial procedure and also reviews petitions and summary procedures
• Civil Rule 10-4 Injunctions - Teal Cedar Products Ltd. v. Rainforest Flying Squad, 2022 BCCA 26 – Reviews “enforcement gap principle” (the lack of other mechanisms of achieving the goal of the injunctive relief)