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  2. Peter A. Allard School of Law - Wikipedia

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    The Peter A. Allard School of Law (abbreviated as Allard Law) is the law school of the University of British Columbia. [3] The faculty offers the Juris Doctor degree. The faculty features courses on business law, tax law, environmental and natural resource law, indigenous law, Pacific Rim issues, and feminist legal theory.

  3. Uniform Building Code - Wikipedia

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    The UBC was first published in 1927 by the International Conference of Building Officials, which was based in Whittier, California.It was intended to promote public safety and provided standardized requirements for safe construction which would not vary from city to city as had previously been the case.

  4. University of British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada.With an annual research budget of $893 million, UBC funds 9,992 projects annually in various fields of study within the industrial sector, as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations.

  5. List of law schools in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Quebec law schools, including the dual-curriculum, bilingual McGill University Faculty of Law, do not require applicants to write the LSAT, although any scores are generally taken into account; nor do the French-language common-law programs at the Université de Moncton École de droit and University of Ottawa Faculty of Law.

  6. Admission to practice law - Wikipedia

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    Admission requirements to law school vary between those of common law jurisdictions, which comprise all but one of Canada's provinces and territories, and the province of Quebec, which is a civil law jurisdiction. For common law schools, students must have already completed an undergraduate degree before being admitted to an LLB or JD programme ...

  7. Continuing legal education - Wikipedia

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    In British Columbia, CPD is mandatory [12] and lawyers are required to annually report their continuing legal education activities to the Law Society of British Columbia. The Continuing Legal Education Society of BC [13] provides tools to facilitate compliance with these requirements. Practicing lawyers must complete a minimum of 12 hours of ...

  8. Seismic code - Wikipedia

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    In January 1928, the first edition of the Uniform Building Code (UBC) was published, and included an appendix with non-mandatory matter with §2311 recommending a minimum lateral design force for earthquake resistance of V = 0.075W for buildings on foundations with allowable bearing pressures of 4,000 psf or more, and 0.10 W for all other ...

  9. Law Society of British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    The society's primary mandate under the Legal Profession Act [2] is to uphold and protect the public interest in the administration of justice by preserving and protecting the rights and freedoms of all persons, ensuring the independence, integrity, honour and competence of lawyers, establishing standards and programs for the education, professional responsibility and competence of BC lawyers.