Welcome to the Acheson Sweeney Foley Sahota personal injury case law database.

Our firm has collected and organized a number of personal injury court decisions in a publicly-accessible database, for use as a resource by law students, other lawyers and firms, as well as the general public. This database will include some of our firm’s results, as well as results from many other lawyers. For information about results from this firm only, please click here.

The British Columbia Supreme Court and the British Columbia Court of Appeal are the sources for all of the cases in this database; these cases are not official versions of the material produced, and were not made in affiliation with or the endorsement of the British Columbia Superior Courts.




Meghji v. Lee

           On January 22, 2003, a vehicle operated by the defendant, Jamin Lee, struck the plaintiff, Selina Meghji, while she was walking across the intersection of Blanshard Street and Cloverdale Avenue in Victoria, B.C....

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Singh v. McHatten

             The defendants bring this Rule 9-7 summary trial for an order dismissing the plaintiff’s claim for damages arising out of a motor vehicle accident that occurred on July 29, 2006. The plaintiff brought an action and obtained a judgment in the Provincial Court of British Columbia (Small Claims Division) relating to the same accident and the defendants contend the plaintiff is therefore precluded from claiming again in relation to the same accident on the basis of res judicata.THE LAW...

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Wong v. Lee

             This action arose in relation to a motor vehicle collision in which the plaintiff sustained injuries. The collision occurred on August 29, 2003 on the Interstate-5 in Washington State. At the time of the collision, the defendant Miranda Lee, who is the plaintiff’s wife, was operating the vehicle in which the plaintiff was a passenger. The defendant Stephen Louie, was one of the lessors of the vehicle. The vehicle was owned by the defendant, MKA Leasing Ltd. Both liability and the extent and consequences of the plaintiff’s injuries were issues in the action....

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Robbins v. Webb

             This was a trial to determine liability for damages resulting from a motor vehicle accident. The essential question is: who reacted to whom in commencing the chain of events that led to the impact?I.        Background...

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Quartey-Harrison v. Klusiewich

             On April 18, 2007, Mr. Quartey-Harrison was driving his vehicle southbound on 200th Street in Langley.  He had entered the intersection at 200th Street and 92nd Avenue on a green light and was proceeding through the intersection when his vehicle was struck on the right passenger side by a vehicle driven by the defendant Darren Klusiewich.  ...

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Thomas v. Thompson

             The plaintiff in this personal injury action represented himself at trial, and reasons were given on September 16, 2010. No order has yet been entered, in part because of my invitation to the plaintiff and counsel for the defendants to address the issue of costs of future medication. No present-value calculation had been tendered by the plaintiff (who, of course, has the burden of proof)....

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Harrington v. Sangha

             At approximately 11:30 a.m. on January 18, 2007, Mr. Hardip Sangha (“Sangha”) lost control of a tractor trailer he was driving north on Highway 97 at an “S” turn in the highway, near Sales Road, about 20 km south of Quesnel. He felt his vehicle slide across the road as the trailer swung around the tractor. As this occurred, Mr. Raoul Thiels (“Thiels”) was approaching the same location driving a tractor trailer south, toward Williams Lake. When he saw the Sangha truck sliding sideways across the road into his path of travel, he felt that there was no option but to intentionally drive his truck off the west side of the road into a ditch and snowbank. The vehicles missed each other narrowly. Sangha’s truck swung around 180 degrees and ended in the ditch on the east side of Highway 97 with the tractor facing south. Thiels’ truck hit the bank of the ditch on the west side of the road and its trailer then pivoted across the travelled portion of the highway, blocking the southbound lane entirely and impinging significantly on the northbound lane....

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Virani v. HMTQ

             The accused was convicted in British Columbia Provincial Court on February 5, 2010, of wilfully obstructing a peace officer, Constable Beare, in the execution of that peace officer’s duty, contrary to s. 129(a) of the Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985, Chap. C-46....

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Bialkowski v. Banfield

             On June 13, 2011, I made a ruling on a voir dire that a portion of the expert evidence the plaintiff wished to introduce in a personal injury case was inadmissible.  Reasons for my decision were to follow.  These are my reasons for the ruling....

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Powell Estate v. Workers Compensation Board

             There are three applications to be decided: the first is the plaintiff’s application to add Edward Bates as a defendant and to amend the statement of claim to incorporate allegations against Mr. Bates. The second is the defendants’ summary trial application, heard pursuant to Rule 9-7, in which the defendants seeks a dismissal of portions of the plaintiff’s claims on the ground that they are barred by operation of the Limitation Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 266. The third is the defendants’ application, pursuant to Rule 9-5(1)(a), to strike portions of the plaintiff’s statement of claim as disclosing no cause of action....

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Biedermann v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

             The plaintiff seeks an order that:1. That the Defendant provide further and better particulars of the Defendant’s allegation that the Plaintiff “made a willfully [sic] false statement or representation with respect to a claim” as set forth at Part 3, paragraph 1(a) of the Defendant’s Response to Civil Claim....

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D.S. v. L.F.

             THE COURT:  The applications before me relate to two girls. The younger is 10 years old and the older girl is nearly 13 years old. I am going to refer to them together as "the girls." The mother of the girls passed away in May 2009 at the age of 29. The claimants are the maternal grandparents of the girls. The first respondent, L.F., is the father of the girls. J.W. is the executrix of the estate of the girls' mother and was appointed guardian of the girls under that will. At the time the mother passed away, she had sole custody of the girls. The applications are for interim orders regarding custody and guardianship and access....

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