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.




Jackson v. Mongrain

           The plaintiff claims damages for negligence arising out of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on April 8, 2006 on the Lougheed Highway. The vehicle in which the plaintiff was a passenger was stopped in the left lane for eastbound traffic waiting for the vehicle ahead of it to complete a manoeuvre. The defendant drove her vehicle into the rear of the vehicle in which the plaintiff was seated. That the defendant was negligent is admitted. A pleading of contributory negligence is not pressed. That the plaintiff was injured is accepted by the defendant. A failure by the plaintiff to mitigate his loss is alleged by the defendant....

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Etson v. Loblaw Companies Limited (Real Canadian Superstore)

           On November 28, 2008, the plaintiff, then 76 years old, tripped over the corner of a wooden pallet in the defendant’s Superstore, fell down, and broke her hip.  She had surgery to pin her hip together but within nine months the hardware failed and she had to have two further operations: one to remove the hardware and another to replace her entire hip.  Fortunately, the last surgery was successful and the plaintiff is finally on the road to recovery....

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Bain v. Bain

           Mr. Bain seeks increased access to his two children; Tyra, age 11, and Alanna, age 8. As well he sought to vary child maintenance ordered by R. Holmes J. on June 12, 2006. He also sought an accounting of monies held in trust although no material was put in front of me regarding that and indeed not mentioned in his outline....

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Hambrook v. Sandhu

             This is an assessment of the defendants’ costs. The underlying claim arose as a result of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on February 29, 2004. This action was commenced April 4, 2005. The defence filed shortly thereafter denied liability....

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Madill v. Sithivong

             The plaintiff, Ronald Edward Madill, claims damages against the defendants for injuries arising from a motor vehicle accident that occurred June 28, 2004 on Clearbrook Road in Abbotsford, British Columbia.  At the time of the accident, the plaintiff was a passenger in a motor vehicle owned by the defendant, Super H Holdings Ltd., and operated by the defendant, Charles Peter Howard.  The action against Super H Holdings Ltd. has been discontinued....

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Lee v. Jarvie

             In 2004, the plaintiff Stanley Lee was a 27-year old recent graduate from Simon Fraser University. Mr. Lee was single, living on his own and working as a clerk at Overwaitea Save-on-Foods in Coquitlam, British Columbia....

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Curak v. Brown

             It was a busy morning in chambers when the parties appeared before me on the defendants’ application for an order that the plaintiff in this personal injury action attend for two independent medical examinations, the first booked for the following week.  The application threatened to exceed the estimate provided by counsel, not an unusual circumstance but one which resulted in part of the application being adjourned for written submissions.  Given that one of the examinations was scheduled for the following week and that the parties were in partial agreement, I made the order for the plaintiff to attend the two independent medical examinations as follows:          (a)      an examination by orthopaedic surgeon Dr. John Oliver on Friday December 3, 2010 at 1:00 p.m.; and     (b)      a work capacity evaluation with occupational therapist Jeff Padvaiskas on Monday January 10, 2011 at 8:30 a.m....

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Cross v. Cross

             On September 5, 2008, the plaintiff was a passenger in an automobile, owned by his mother (the defendant Gail Theresa Zeilstra) and driven by his brother (the defendant Spencer Cross). The vehicle was struck by another automobile operated by the defendant Christian David McLean Bouwman....

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Borgfjord v. Penner

             The plaintiff lives in Powell River, British Columbia. At about six o’clock in the evening of October 10, 2010, the plaintiff was injured in a motor vehicle accident that occurred just south of Powell River, on Highway 101....

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Ibbitson v. Cooper

 Mr. Ibbitson was a helicopter logging faller.  On July 21, 2001 he was driving home from the work site when, in Prince George, he was broadsided by a car being driven by Mr. Cooper and owned by Ms. Wagner.  Mr. Ibbitson’s three-quarter ton pickup truck was pushed into the opposing lane and was hit almost directly head-on by an oncoming tractor, travelling without a trailer.  Mr. Cooper had run the stop sign....

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De Leon v. Harold

             This trial involves a motor vehicle accident which took place on March 30, 2007, at the intersection of Marine Drive and McKay Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, when the plaintiff’s vehicle was rear-ended by the defendant’s vehicle....

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