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.




Caballero v. OCallaghan

             This is a disqualification application. The defendant Timothy Wayne Wells applies for:1)    a declaration that Slater Vecchio is ineligible to continue to act as lawyer for the plaintiff;2)    an order removing Slater Vecchio as lawyer for the plaintiff, or in the alternative, restraining Slater Vecchio from continuing to act as lawyer for the plaintiff; and3)    an order enjoining Slater Vecchio and its members from disclosing any confidential communication, information or document obtained by any of the them from the defendant, Timothy Wells....

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Olianka v. Spagnol

             The plaintiff, Vladimir Olianka, seeks damages resulting from injuries he suffered on October 20, 2008 when the vehicle he was driving was struck from behind by a vehicle driven by the defendant, Mary Spagnol. Mr. Olianka had stopped his vehicle at the intersection of King Edward Avenue and Valley Drive in Vancouver where the October 20, 2008 collision (the “collision”) occurred, the impact pushing Mr. Olianka’s vehicle into the vehicle stopped in front of him. Mr. Olianka was accompanied by his young son Yuma who occupied the front passenger seat when the collision occurred. The defendant admits liability for the collision and the purpose of this summary trial, which I find appropriate in the circumstances, is to determine the quantum of Mr. Olianka’s damages....

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Axten v. Johnson

             This appeal arises out of a judgment on a dispute as to costs, handed down by Master Keighley on February 14, 2011.  Reasons for judgment below are indexed at Johnson v. Axten, 2011 BCSC 178 [Johnson]....

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T.C. v. A.M.

             T.C. brings this application without notice seeking that this Court take jurisdiction over the action she commenced against her former father-in-law, A.M., for damages for sexual assault alleged to have occurred in Montreal, Quebec....

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De Sousa v. Bradaric and Borthwick

           THE COURT:  This is an application by the defence in proceedings relating to a motor vehicle accident which occurred in October of 2003, the consequence of which Ms. De Sousa says she was injured and suffered a variety of injuries, including soft tissue, but most, I think, compelling and entirely the focus of this application are psychiatric consequences....

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Lorenz v. Gosling

           THE COURT:  The plaintiff, Mrs. Dyana Lorenz, was injured in a motor vehicle accident that took place July 7, 2008.  Liability for the accident is admitted on the part of the defendants.  The trial proceeded as an assessment of damages.  The only witnesses at trial were Mrs. Lorenz and Drs. Alan Berkman and Stanley Leete.Background...

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X. v. Y.

             On July 19, 2005, the plaintiff, Mr. X., an RCMP officer, was responding to an emergency call on the Lougheed Highway in Coquitlam. His life changed permanently and materially when his motorcycle collided with a truck driven by one of the defendants, Mr. Y. The truck was owned by Z. Ltd., the other defendant. I will refer to the defendant, Mr. Y., as “the defendant” for the balance of these reasons. As a result of the accident, the plaintiff was seriously injured; he sustained a burst-fracture of his T12 vertebra and underwent fusion surgery. The plaintiff returned to his employment with the RCMP in April 2006. However, he has not returned to front-line police work....

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Parti v. Pokorny

           The defendant applies for an order to allow production and use of a transcript of the case planning conference (“CPC”) conducted by me in this matter on March 15, 2011....

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Gill v. Widjaja

           This is the assessment of party and party costs arising in a personal injury case, brought under Rule 15-1(“Fast Track”).BACKGROUND...

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