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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.
This is a claim for damages, arising from injuries Spencer Land, an infant, suffered as a result of a motor vehicle accident that occurred on April 22, 2005. The claim is advanced by his mother and litigation guardian, Georgina Dawn Land. The defendant admits liability and acknowledges that the plaintiff is entitled to compensation but says the award should be much more modest than what the plaintiff says is fair and reasonable.The Accident...
On January 27, 2010, following a two-day trial, the action of the plaintiff, Laurie-Ann Bay, against the defendant, Todd Pasieka, was dismissed. I ordered that the issue of costs be adjourned with liberty to the parties to apply to the court if an agreement could not be reached. Three-and-a-half years after the trial, the defendant now applies for costs. The defendant seeks costs at Scale B and double costs from November 14, 2006, the date an offer to settle was made, to the present. The plaintiff says that each party should bear their own costs....
A trial assessing damages arising out of two motor vehicle accidents proceeded before a jury over the course of thirteen days in August 2011....
Anoop Dhami and Tarlochan Singh Bath entered into two agreements to develop three lots located in White Rock, B.C. (the Project). They entered into both an oral agreement and a written agreement in March 2008. The written agreement dated March 31, 2008, was a share purchase agreement whereby Mr. Dhami purchased Mr. Baths shares in Glass House Venture Inc. (the Company). The Company owned two of the three lots on which the proposed mixed-use development was to be constructed. The third lot was owned by Mr. Baths twenty-one year old daughter....
The plaintiff is a 65-year old woman who lives in Surrey. She was injured in a motor vehicle accident on February 3, 2010 at the intersection of Fraser Highway and 148th Street. The accident was a low speed rear-ender which caused minimal damage to the vehicle. The ICBC estimators who assessed the damage both considered the claims to be cosmetic. Photographs in evidence show some scuffing on the bumpers of the vehicle, with no deformation....
The plaintiff, Krystyna Bilanik, claims damages for injuries sustained in two motor vehicle accidents. The first occurred on May 16, 2008 when the plaintiff was a passenger in a stationary vehicle struck by the defendant, Juan Ferman (the first accident). Liability for this accident has been admitted on behalf of Mr. Ferman. The only issue is what damages, if any, were sustained by the plaintiff....
On March 2, 2010, Peter Pilfold was a passenger in a Royal City taxi negligently operated by Jaswinder Jaswal which struck the Pattullo Bridge curb in a single vehicle accident in New Westminster, B.C. (the Accident). Mr. Pilfold was on his way to the dispatch office in New Westminster to work as a longshoreman. This case concerns the assessment of damages arising from the negligent operation of the taxi.II. Background...
THE COURT: This is an assessment of a bill of costs following the settlement of a personal injury action. The tariff items are not in dispute, but there are disbursements of $21,854.06 in dispute. The disbursements are primarily for medical legal opinions....
The Plaintiff, Rich Zajaczkowski, seeks damages of between $1.2 million and $4.4 million arising from a motor vehicle accident. Liability is not in issue....
The plaintiff, Ms. Rahimi, seeks damages for personal injuries she suffered as a result of a motor vehicle accident that occurred on April 9, 2010 (the Accident). The issues raised in this action are made simpler by numerous factors. Liability is admitted. Ms. Rahimi did not suffer from any pre-Accident injuries or disabilities. There is no suggestion of any intervening factors that may have contributed to or exacerbated her injuries. The defendants called no expert evidence. To the credit of counsel for both parties they worked efficiently and cooperatively to address those issues that mattered and to ignore those that did not....
The plaintiff, Anna Carreon-Rivera, was involved in a collision on October 16, 2009 when the vehicle she was driving was struck by the vehicle driven by the defendant Guo Qing Zhang. Ms. Carreon-Rivera was proceeding westbound in the curb lane on 41st Avenue in Vancouver, British Columbia, when the defendant, who was in a vehicle in the adjacent lane, made a sudden lane change and collided with her vehicle. The collision pushed Ms. Carreon-Riveras vehicle up onto the right hand curb. The vehicle was then dragged along by the defendants vehicle for half a block before coming to a rest....