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.




Parent v. Lohia

             These are assessments of two bills of costs presented by the plaintiff following settlement of two motor vehicle accidents in which the plaintiff was injured....

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Spiering v. Trevor

             The plaintiffs, Michael Spiering and Mechthild Maria Spiering (collectively, “the Spierings”), who are husband and wife, each commenced an action seeking damages for injuries that they suffered when they were injured in a motor vehicle accident. The accident occurred at about noon on September 17, 2008, on Highway 19 near the Zeballos junction turn off, near the Town of Port McNeill, British Columbia....

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Rasman v. Regan

             The plaintiff, Rudolf Rasman, claims damages for medical negligence against the defendant, Dr. William Regan, an orthopaedic surgeon, based on lack of informed consent.  On October 26, 2006, Dr. Regan performed surgery to repair a fracture of the plaintiff’s left clavicle, or collar bone. That procedure, an open reduction internal fixation of the left clavicle, involved opening up the fracture, and attaching a titanium plate to the clavicle in order to achieve union of the bone where it had fractured. On the same day, Dr. Regan also performed arthroscopic knee surgery on the plaintiff.  Mr. Rasman’s claim concerns only the surgery to his clavicle....

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Varga v. Shin

             The parties came before me on September 27, 2012 to assess the plaintiff’s costs of this action....

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Perrin v. Lefebvre

             Each party has sued the other alleging that the other caused the collision between their vehicles. They have agreed that the issue of liability in both actions be tried first and at the same time. The central question is whether one or both parties were negligent when one made a highway u-turn in front of the other. The credibility and reliability of the parties is very much in issue.The Facts...

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Peck v. Peck

             The plaintiff, Jessica Peck, claims damages against the defendant, George Peck, for injuries arising out of a motor vehicle accident on January 4, 2007, near Grand Forks, B.C....

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Callahan v. Kim

             The 63-year-old plaintiff, Leo Callahan, was riding his bicycle in a pedestrian crosswalk when he was struck by a car driven by the defendant, Taeju Kim. Liability for the accident, causation of the injuries, and the amount of damages are all in issue.Analysis:A.              Liability for the Accident1.               How did the Accident Happen?...

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Leon v. Tu

             On the afternoon of October 28, 2004, the plaintiff, a 17 year-old labourer at a window manufacturing company and part-time university student, attended at the Chilliwack General Hospital emergency department for suturing of a laceration he had sustained at work. He was discharged from hospital the next morning with sutures in his hand, a basal skull fracture, and a significant brain injury....

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Wright v. Thomas

             THE COURT:  In this personal injury action, the defendant seeks leave to make use of at trial various medical‑legal reports prepared in relation to an earlier action brought by the plaintiff. That action was resolved at a trial in 2007 before a judge and jury. Mr. Farquhar was defence counsel in the earlier action, but the plaintiff was represented by another lawyer....

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Callan v. Cooke

             This is an application on behalf of the Attorney General of Canada (“the Attorney General”) to strike out certain portions of the Notice of Civil Claim (“Notice”) of Robert Callen (“the plaintiff”)....

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Abdi v. Leigh

             THE COURT:  The plaintiff seeks damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by her when a Translink bus on which she was a passenger braked suddenly to avoid a collision with a vehicle driven by an unidentified motorist....

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