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.




Scheffer v. Everett

             This is an application by the defendants Upstairs Cabaret Ltd., Brad Billet, Paul Ducharme, and John Does #1 and #2 (the applicants) for an order pursuant to Rule 9-7 of the Supreme Court Civil Rules that the plaintiff’s action against them be dismissed and that liability be apportioned between the parties.  In the alternative, the applicants seek an order that the issues of liability and damages be severed pursuant to Rule 12-5(67) so that the matter would proceed to trial on the issue of liability of the applicants with the issue of damages to be tried later if necessary.  The plaintiff is opposed to the application....

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Sperling v. Queen of Nanaimo (Ship)

             The plaintiff applies under the R. 6-1 and 6-2(7)(c) to correct a pleading “misnomer” by amendment or alternatively to add parties as defendants in the lawsuit. The proposed defendants oppose the application primarily on the ground that the plaintiff’s claim is barred by the federal legislation governing maritime negligence law, namely the Marine Liability Act, S.C. 2001, c. 6 (the “MLA”) and that this Court has no jurisdiction to “extend” the limitation period beyond that prescribed by the MLA....

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Chow v. Schuler

             The plaintiff claims damages in respect of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on March 31, 2010. For the reasons that follow I find that:1.     the defendant is solely at fault for the accident;2.     with respect to the key causation issue in dispute between the parties, the accident was indeed at least a contributing cause to the plaintiff’s foot injury; and3.     damages are therefore awarded as assessed below.Credibility of the plaintiff...

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Paquette v. School District No. 36 (Surrey)

             The issue in this case is whether the defendant Board of School Trustees is liable to the plaintiff, Owen Paquette, for injuries he suffered when he fell off the roof of Peace Arch Elementary school on March 4, 2008. The plaintiff alleges the defendant was negligent and breached its duties under the Occupiers Liability Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 337 [OLA]. The plaintiff acknowledges partial liability but submits the defendant should be found between 60-75% liable for his injuries....

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Minhas v. Sartor

             The trial of this action proceeded intermittently for 25 days during the period January 10, 2011 to May 4, 2011.  On May 30, 2012 I delivered Reasons for Judgment awarding the plaintiff, Mr. Minhas, damages in the amount of $76,653....

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Doucette v. McDaniel

             On August 2, 2008, the plaintiff, Bruce Doucette, was injured in an unfortunate accident when he fell down an unprotected stairwell (“the Stairwell”) in a residence on Pender Island, British Columbia. The waterfront residence on Pender Island is owned by the defendant, Mary Ann McDaniel....

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Musgrove v. Elliot

             The plaintiff became entitled to his costs of two actions which were heard at the same time and which arose out of two motor vehicle accidents, all as provided in a decision indexed at 2013 BCSC 1707....

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Rutledge v. Jimmie

             The plaintiff seeks damages as a result of a motor vehicle accident that occurred on 19 March 2011 in the City of Quesnel, in the province of British Columbia....

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Austin v. Reardon

             The plaintiff was injured in a motor vehicle accident on July 2, 2010. Liability has been admitted. The matter proceeded to trial for the purpose of assessing damages....

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Kumar v. Taba

             THE COURT:  On July 27, 2011, Naresh Kumar was driving his taxi southbound on Capilano Road towards the intersection with the Highway 1 west on-ramp. At the same time, Isabella Taba was driving her car northbound on Capilano Road. Just as she moved through the intersection, Mr. Kumar made a left turn and the two vehicles collided....

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