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.




Rollheiser v. Rollheiser

             The plaintiff, Ms. Rollheiser, and her husband Brian were involved in a motor vehicle accident on July 26, 2008 as they were driving eastbound on Highway 1 approaching the 232 Street exit in Langley, British Columbia. The vehicle driven by Stephen Major, the defendant, was also driving eastbound on Highway 1 and he collided with the Rollheiser vehicle....

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Dhillon v. Bowering

             THE COURT:  This is an application by the defendants for an adjournment of a trial that is scheduled to take place for 10 days commencing October 22 of this year.  That is in 11 days from now....

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Burgess v. Buell Distribution Corporation

             The plaintiff was seriously injured in a single vehicle accident when he lost control of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle he was operating.  His motorcycle was equipped with a sidecar.  The central question in this litigation is what caused that loss of control.  The plaintiff alleges that it was caused by "wobble and/or weave instability...

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Yick v. Johnson

             On October 21, 2006, the plaintiff Loretta Yick was severely injured in a motor vehicle accident. At the time of the accident, Ms. Yick was sitting in the front passenger seat of a car being driven by her husband, the defendant Martin Li. They were on their way to a dinner out. At approximately 6 p.m. Mr. Li entered the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Dewdney Trunk Road in Coquitlam. While the Li car was in that intersection, it was struck on the passenger side by a Ford F250 pickup truck (the “Truck”) being driven by the defendant, Nils Christopher Johnson....

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Pike v. Dandiwal

             The trial of this action concerned the determination of fault for a motor vehicle accident that occurred on December 30, 2007 at the intersection of 168th Street and 64 Avenue, Surrey, British Columbia. A pewter coloured GMC pick-up truck driven by the plaintiff, Robert Pike, collided with a grey Honda Accord owned by the defendant, Satwinder Dandiwal, and driven by his father, Gej Dandiwal, close to 6:00 p.m. I am satisfied from all of the evidence that the collision took place between 5:50 and 5:55 p.m....

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Wallner v. Uppal

             THE COURT:  On May 29, 2009, the 37-year-old plaintiff was the passenger in her car, a 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt, driven by her then boyfriend.  The car stopped for traffic on the Knight Street Bridge and was rear-ended by Mr. Garcha's 2002 Chevrolet Venture.  Mr. Garcha's vehicle was struck from behind by Mr. Uppal's 1997 Pontiac Grand Am, which impact caused the Garcha vehicle to strike the plaintiff's car a second time....

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Middelaer v. Berner

             The plaintiff claims damages arising from a motor vehicle accident which occurred on May 17, 2008 in Delta, B.C. (the “Accident”). This application is to add the Corporation of Delta (“Delta”) as a defendant in this action and for leave to file an amended notice of civil claim which will include the allegations against Delta. This matter is contested by Delta as the application to add Delta is being brought outside the limitation period within which an action can be commenced against Delta....

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Naidu v. Gill

             These proceedings are under Rule 15-1 of the Supreme Court Civil Rules, “Fast Track Litigation”....

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Nowe v. Bowerman

             THE COURT:  The plaintiff claims damages for injuries to his neck and shoulder suffered in a motor vehicle accident on September 30, 2008.  The trial is presently set for five days commencing October 7, 2013....

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Smith v. Moshrefzadeh

             The plaintiff, Julie Smith, was injured in a motor vehicle accident in Nanaimo, British Columbia, on October 23, 2008....

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Thornber v. Campbell

             This case involves an assessment of damages arising from what can only be described as a brutal and unprovoked assault on Dale Thornber, the plaintiff, on the night of March 24, 2007....

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Kilian v. Valentin

             Jennifer Kilian was injured in a motor vehicle accident in Vancouver on February 1, 2008, when her car was struck by a large semi-trailer truck driven by Cory Valentin and owned by Berezay Trucking Inc....

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