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.




Friebel v. Omelchenko

             THE COURT:  This ruling follows an application by the defence to limit the scope of the area of expertise for which Dr. John McNeill, one of the plaintiff's experts, is entitled to offer expert opinion evidence.Introduction...

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Radjenovic v. Bains

             These actions arise out of a motor vehicle accident that occurred on October 31, 2008 on West 11th Avenue in Vancouver.  One vehicle, exiting from a parking stall, was struck by another which was proceeding in the same direction.  The only issue is liability.  Did the driver of the one vehicle pull out into the travelled portion of the roadway when it was unsafe to do so, or was the driver of the approaching vehicle driving too fast and without due care and attention so that he failed to see the exiting vehicle?I.                 BACKGROUND...

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Sahota v. Ho

             The plaintiff, Prabraj Sahota, was injured in a motor vehicle accident (“the accident”), on September 29, 2001, at the intersection of Garden City Road and Cambie Street, in the City of Richmond, British Columbia, while riding as a rear seat passenger in a motor vehicle owned and operated by his father, Rajinder Singh Sahota, the Guardian Ad Litem.  Liability for the accident is admitted....

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Estabrooks v. Gauvin 2000 Construction Ltd.

             This is an application by the defendant Monica Hay (“Hay”), doing business as Quilted Treasures, for an order dismissing this action as against her and Quilted Treasures under Rule 9-7 of the Supreme Court Civil Rules....

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Wattar v. Lu

             The plaintiff’s and the defendant’s cars collided at the intersection of First Avenue and Rupert Street in Vancouver on January 6, 2010. Both liability and damages are in issue. The parties agree that they collided as the plaintiff was driving through the intersection and the defendant was making a left turn. They agree on very little else....

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Gu v. Friesen

             This trial was about liability for an injury that 11-year-old Jacqueline Gu suffered during an outdoor recess break at Southridge School in Surrey on November 21, 2008....

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Schenker v. Scott

             On July 17, 2009, the plaintiff, Sarah Schenker, was riding as a front seat passenger in a van owned and operated by the defendant, Lianne Margaret Scott. Ms. Scott and Ms. Schenker were travelling to Vancouver on the Trans Canada Highway (the “Highway”), near Lytton, British Columbia, when Ms. Scott’s vehicle left the Highway, went over an embankment to a road below, and then rolled down another embankment, landing close to the railway tracks (the “accident”)....

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Wiebe v. Douglas

             By notice of application filed October 24, 2012, the defendant sought orders for disclosure, together with costs in any event of the cause. The orders sought in the notice of application, Part 1, paragraphs 1, 3, 4 and 5 were resolved between the plaintiff and the defendant. The order sought in Part 1, paragraph 2 of the notice of application is as follows:2.         BC Ambulance Service shall make available for examination, on a mutually agreeable date and time, the employees identified on the Patient Care Report, as employee #76561 with the initials LE and employee #49322, initials DR, being the driver and ambulance attendant who attended the scene of the subject accident....

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Gillam v. Wiebe

             This is an assessment of damages in relation to personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff, Jennifer Gillam, in a motor vehicle accident that occurred February 26, 2009. Liability for the accident is admitted by the defendants....

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Breberin v. Santos

             The defendants apply for an order dismissing  the plaintiff’s claim pursuant to Rules 22-7(5) and (6), as a result of the plaintiff’s failure to comply with the Rules or to comply with a direction of the court and, in the alternative, for an order finding the plaintiff in contempt of court and dismissing her claim for that contempt.History of Proceedings...

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Miller v. Norris

             This is personal injury claim. The plaintiff alleges that she suffered injuries as a result of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on February 22, 2011....

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