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.




Amini v. Mondragaon

             The plaintiff, Ms. Haleh Amini, claims damages for injuries sustained in a rear-end collision which occurred February 23, 2011 (the “Accident”)....

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Zhang v. Graham

             This action arises from a motor vehicle accident.  Mr. Zhang seeks damages for non-pecuniary loss, past income loss, loss of earning capacity, costs of future care and special damages.BACKGROUND FACTS...

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Boyar (Re)

             On February 27, 2014 I delivered Reasons for Judgment in this estate litigation.  I gave the parties leave to file written submissions about costs.  These are my Reasons in relation to costs....

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Pacheco v. Degife

             The plaintiff, Enrique Pacheco, claims damages for battery arising out of an incident that occurred in the early morning hours of May 31, 2008 on Beach Avenue in Vancouver. A minor rear-end collision involving Mr. Pacheco’s car and a car driven by the defendant, Tesfaye Degife, led to an altercation in which Mr. Pacheco was struck in the head with a baseball bat (the “Incident”)....

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Papaspyros v. Cox

             On July 31, 2008, a bus, driven by the defendant James Cox, came to a sudden stop at the intersection of MacDonald Street and West 4th Avenue in Vancouver (the “Incident” ) causing a number of passengers to be thrown to the floor. Those passengers included the plaintiffs, Maria Pappas and Adamandia Papaspyros, both of whom have commenced actions claiming damages for the injuries that they sustained....

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Dadey v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

             The plaintiff has owned and operated a mobile crane service for many years. On October 28, 2011, Pacific Coast Terminals (“PCT”) hired the plaintiff to use the crane to move large rolls of conveyor belt from a stockpile at the Port Moody premises of PCT a distance of approximately thirty feet to another area where the conveyor belt rolls were to be held by the crane and unrolled by other equipment onto a large conveyor belt assembly. Each roll of the conveyor belt weighed approximately five tons....

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Kerr v. Global Investments House Inc.

             The plaintiff, Mr. Kerr, injured his left shoulder when he fell while leaving the Greenbrier Hotel (the “Hotel”) in Vancouver on the morning of August 28, 2009. He alleges he suffered and continues to suffer pain, disability, loss of enjoyment of life, and loss of amenities as a result. He also alleges that as a result of the injuries and the associated pain, he became addicted to opiate painkillers and then to heroin, which led to a four-year downward spiral in his life....

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Barber v. Jack

             THE COURT:  This trial concerns liability for a motor vehicle accident that occurred on July 11, 2008....

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Boparai v. Boparai Estate

             This case deals with the consequences to Abjot Boparai of a tragic motor vehicle accident that he and other members of his family were involved in on September 18, 1999, when he was eight years old. His mother and his twin brother were killed, and he suffered significant facial scarring that has required numerous follow-up treatments over the years....

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Hill v. Murray

             The plaintiff, Judith Katherine Hill, was in a very bad car accident on October 26, 2009. At trial, the defendants, Gerald Murray and Hilltop Greenhouses Ltd., disputed liability; challenged the underpinnings for some of the most significant medical diagnoses and prognoses that Ms. Hill received; disputed causation; and finally, quantified her losses much lower than she did. Within those broad issues are many discrete issues which I will identify as I address them in my reasons.Liability...

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Hay v. Benzer

             On December 15, 2008, the plaintiff, Keira Hay, was struck by a large black truck operated by the defendant, Ernest Benzer, which ran a red light when the plaintiff was crossing the intersection at Harvey Avenue and Burtch Road in Kelowna. She was thrown a foot or foot and a half in the air, she fell on her tailbone and hit her head on the pavement. Liability is admitted. The defendant pled guilty to failure to stop at a red light and failure to render assistance at the scene of an accident.BACKGROUND...

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