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.




Miles v. Kumar

             On the morning of October 20, 2007, Sapna Seema Kumar was the driver and lone occupant of a car travelling eastbound along Grandview Highway in Vancouver. As Ms Kumar neared Slocan Street she struck Sky Miles. Mr. Miles was riding a bicycle at the time, and just prior to the collision he had moved into Ms Kumar’s lane of travel in preparation for a left turn onto Slocan Street....

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Brownrigg v. Tamburri

             THE COURT:  This is an application to add two defendants under Rule 6‑2(7).  This involved a boating accident in 2002, when one of the present named defendants, Stephen Tamburri, was operating a jet boat, and his friend, the plaintiff, Mr. Brownrigg, was a passenger on the boat.  Apparently the jet craft crashed into a tree, resulting in rather severe injuries to Mr. Brownrigg....

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Morgan v. Sun Peaks Resort Corporation

             The plaintiff, Catherine Morgan, was preparing to load onto a chair lift at the ski resort owned by the defendant Sun Peaks Resort Corporation when she fell.  The approaching chair lift was not stopped in time and she was run over by it.  She claims to have suffered personal injuries including dislocation of her right hip as a result.  She brings this claim against the defendant in negligence and based on the Occupiers Liability Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 337 [Act], and amendments....

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Cooknell v. Quinn

             This is an assessment of the plaintiff’s bill of costs following settlement of the action....

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Rezaei v. Leland

             This is a trial relating to damages only, liability having been determined separately before Mr. Justice Myers in March 2011. The defendant was held liable for the accident.The Accident...

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Scott v. Canada (Attorney General)

             This action is about promises the Canadian Government made to men and women injured while in service to their country and whether it is obliged to fulfill those promises....

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Dhaliwal v. Nuff

             The plaintiff applies pursuant to R. 3-2 of the Supreme Court Civil Rules for an order that the writ of summons and statement of claim filed March 31, 2006, be renewed for a period of two months....

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Majchrzak v. Avery

             Mr. Majchrzak seeks damages for injuries he received in a motor vehicle accident on October 5, 2007.Liability...

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British Columbia v. Opel

             Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia (“Province”) has appealed the decision of Judge Dohm dated July 31, 2012 in the Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia v. Opel, Provincial Court Action No. C62487, Nanaimo Registry (“Dohm Decision”). The Province’s appeal was heard at the same time as the appeal by Translink  (“Translink Appeal”) of the decision of Judge Wingham dated June 21, 2012 in Translink v. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia, Provincial Court Action No. 1029231, Vancouver Registry (“Wingham Decision”). The hearing of the appeals occupied two days....

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Translink v. British Columbia

             Translink has appealed the decision of Judge Wingham dated June 21, 2012 in Translink v. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia, Provincial Court Action No. 1029231, Vancouver Registry (“Wingham Decision”). Translink’s appeal was heard at the same time as the appeal by Her Majesty the Queen in the Right of the Province of British Columbia (“Province”) of the decision of Judge Dohm dated July 31, 2012 in Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia v. Opel, Provincial Court Action No. C62487, Nanaimo Registry (“Dohm Decision”). The hearing of the appeals occupied two days....

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Stephenson v. Lee

             The plaintiff is a 52 year old woman who was injured in a motor vehicle accident on June 29, 2008 in Nelson, British Columbia. The accident occurred at an intersection on a bright clear day. The defendant’s vehicle left a stop sign and struck the plaintiff’s vehicle on the driver’s side front quarter panel, near the front wheel. The impact caused a relatively limited amount of damage to the plaintiff’s vehicle but she suffered a contusion to her face and, in the aftermath, complained of pain in her wrists, neck, back and shoulder....

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