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.




Isbister v. Delong

             The plaintiff, Kimberly Isbister, seeks damages for injuries that she suffered in a motor vehicle accident....

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Stalzer v. Nagai

             This case involving a collision between a motor vehicle and a bicycle has one primary issue: whether the plaintiff proved the defendant was actually negligent and therefore liable....

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Sunner v. Rana

             This case involved a motor vehicle accident which occurred on October 9, 2008. The plaintiff was a taxi driver driving his taxi. He was stopped at a red light at the corner of Willingdon and Halifax in Burnaby. His vehicle was rear-ended by a vehicle driven by one of the defendants and owned by the other. Liability for the collision was admitted. The trial involved the assessment of damages for the injuries suffered by the plaintiff in the motor vehicle accident.Facts...

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Tweddle v. Losch

             The plaintiff seeks general and special damages as a result of injuries she suffered in a motor vehicle accident on March 3, 2010 on Saltspring Island....

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R. v. Edmond

             This is a summary conviction appeal pursuant to s. 830 of the Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985 c. C-46 in relation to a decision of a judge of the Provincial Court of British Columbia convicting the appellant of assault with a weapon, contrary to s.267(1)(a) of the Criminal Code (Count 1). A conditional stay was entered on Count 2, possession of a weapon for a purpose dangerous to the public peace contrary to s. 88(1) based on the principles in R. v. Kienapple, [1975] 1 S.C.R. 729. In both counts the alleged weapon was stated to be a pipe. In relation to the conviction for assault with a weapon the appellant received a suspended sentence with probation for two years.II.               Background...

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Field v. Bains

             On October 3, 2003, the plaintiff Rebecca Field, then a seven-year-old girl, was returning home from ballet class with her mother. Their car was struck by a semi-trailer truck and dragged for a distance along the highway. Liability is admitted. The only issue before me is the assessment of damages....

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Nish v. McLaughlin

             Dagan Nish claims damages for personal injury arising out of two motor vehicle accidents: the first on January 27, 2010 and the second on March 30, 2010. Mr. Nish claims for non-pecuniary damages, past loss of income, loss of income-earning capacity, special damages, and cost of future care....

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Saadati v. Moorhead

             This action is the result of an accident that occurred around 10:00 p.m. on July 5, 2005. At that time the plaintiff was driving a 2000 Freightliner tractor-truck (without trailer) on Front Street approaching Begbie Street in New Westminster when the plaintiff’s vehicle was hit by a Hummer (a truck-like sports utility vehicle) driven by the defendant, Mr. Moorhead. The accident resulted in the plaintiff’s tractor-truck sustaining approximately $10,000 in damage, primarily to the right front side....

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Giacetti v. Criss

             THE COURT: This is an application by the defendant for an order that the plaintiff submit to an independent medical examination (“IME”) with Ms. Earle in order to respond to the cost of future care assessment made by the plaintiff's expert, Ms. Edwards....

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Blaikie v. Penafiel

             THE COURT: This is an application by the plaintiff for an order that the jury notice filed by the defendants on January 3, 2014, be declared a nullity and that the trial proceed by judge alone....

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Yang v. Engen

             The plaintiff, Xiao Jia (Jessie) Yang, was a backseat passenger in the family car driven by her husband in Burnaby, B.C., on the rainy night of April 14, 2011, when it was struck by a vehicle driven by the defendant, Jin Engen, in the middle of an intersection in which Ms. Yang’s husband had the right of way....

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