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.




Foster v. Chandel

             The defendants seek orders removing this action from Fast Track and requiring the plaintiff to attend an independent medical examination with a psychiatrist. The relief sought is somewhat intertwined. An order for a psychiatric examination may increase the length of the trial and add to the overall complexity of the proceeding thus supporting the removal of the action from Fast Track....

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Cook v. Klassen

             The underlying action in this matter is a claim for damages by the plaintiff for injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident (“the Accident”) which occurred April 24, 2010 when the plaintiff, Mr. Donald Cook (“Mr. Cook”), while riding his motorcycle, was in a collision with a vehicle driven by Ms. Susan Klassen (“Ms. Klassen”)....

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Lee v. Tse

             The plaintiff’s action arises from a motor vehicle accident that occurred on February 24, 2010 at the intersection of Canada Way and Kensington Avenue in Burnaby, BC (the “accident”). The trial of this matter was regarding liability only....

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Galapia v. Northern Health Authority

             A catastrophic post-surgical accident occurred on January 20, 2009 and resulted in a patient dying on January 29, 2009 at the Dawson Creek and District Hospital. This unfortunate accident led to a Special Case regarding vicarious liability and indemnity being put before me by two of the defendants, Solutions Staffing Inc. and the Northern Health Authority doing business as Dawson Creek and District Hospital. (I will call each of the parties respectively Solutions Staffing and the NHA)....

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Kennedy v. Turtle Bay Marina Inc.

             This is an application to add The Owners, Strata Plan KAS1913 (the “Strata Corporation”) as a defendant to this action, together with consequential amendments to the style of cause and notice of civil claim....

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Bains v. Brar

             The plaintiff, Randy Rajinder Bains, who was 26 years old at the time of the motor vehicle accident on June 11, 2008, was injured when his vehicle collided with a vehicle driven by the defendant, Jasvir Singh Brar.  The accident took place at the intersection of 92nd Avenue and 132nd Street in Surrey, British Columbia, about a block from where the plaintiff and his wife, Sukhdeep, currently live in a rented house....

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Vander Maeden v. Condon

              Introduction[1]             The plaintiff in these actions, Mr. Rudolphus (Rudy) Vander Maeden, sought an award of damages for injuries he claimed he suffered as a result of two accidents involving motor vehicles. Mr. Vander Maeden chose to have his claims tried by a court composed of a judge and jury and, by consent of all parties, both actions were tried together....

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Maher v. Sutton

             The plaintiff John Maher seeks damages for loss and injury that he alleges he suffered as a result of having corrective laser eye surgery on March 27, 2008. Mr. Maher alleges that the defendants were negligent in in their treatment of him and that the defendants proceeded with the surgery without his informed consent. Mr. Maher also seeks punitive damages against the defendant Dr. Hugo Sutton for wilfully undertaking the surgery for which Mr. Maher was not a suitable candidate and for failing to provide proper follow-up care for complications that arose as a result of the surgery....

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Miller v. Emil Anderson Maintenance Co. Ltd.

             It was mid-morning on Christmas Eve, 2008, when the plaintiff, Jacob Miller, accompanied by his two dogs, headed out from his home near Hope, British Columbia to visit his daughter in White Rock.  He drove a Pathfinder SUV that he had purchased about six months earlier....

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Tran v. Edbrooke

             The plaintiff, Van Tan Tran, brings this action to recover damages that he says he sustained as a consequence of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on December 13, 2008....

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Mezo v. Malcolm

             The car belonging to the plaintiff, Ms. Camelia Mezo, was hit in a rear-end accident by a Dodge Ram truck on Highway 1 on November 23, 2010 (the “Accident”)....

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Shallow v. Dyksterhuis

             This trial concerns a claim by Lacey Shallow that the defendant, Bernard Dyksterhuis caused a collision and that she was injured as a result.  Since the commencement of the action the plaintiff married.  Her name is now Lacey Orcutt....

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