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.




Springer v. Kee

           On December 12, 2008, the plaintiff, Ashley Springer, and the defendant Po Ngo Kee (Ms. Kee) were driving eastbound on Sprott Street in Burnaby at about 5:30 p.m. As the parties neared an upcoming intersection, the traffic in front came to a halt. The plaintiff stopped and as the defendant was slowing down, her car was struck from behind and pushed underneath the back of the plaintiff’s car....

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Fairchild v. British Columbia (Vancouver Coastal Health Authority)

           The plaintiff appeals a Registrar’s decision disallowing and, in some cases, reducing certain disbursements incurred in the course of preparing her personal injury action for trial. The Registrar’s hearing followed a settlement of a complex medical malpractice action in which both liability–more specifically, causation–and quantum were in issue....

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Witt v. Vancouver International Airport Authority

           Mr. Witt is a fire truck salesman.  He claims damages for losses he suffered as a result of an incident (“Fall”) at the Vancouver International Airport (“Airport”) on December 8, 2006.  Mr. Witt states that he stepped through a gap between two metal plates on the roadway as he was walking towards a shuttle bus that would take him to his vehicle which was parked in a long-term parking lot.  The metal plates were in place on a temporary basis as construction proceeded on the Canada Line construction at the Airport.  The work at this particular area involved the relocation of underground utilities with the metal plates covering the gravel that had been placed over the excavated area to create a temporary roadway to cover the work being undertaken....

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Glenn v. Seair Seaplanes Ltd.

           This is an application by the plaintiff, Barbara Anne Glenn, in both Action No. M112542 and Action No. S113276, for an order substituting Viking Air Ltd. (“Viking Air”) in the place of the defendant, ABC Corporation, or in the alternative, an order adding Viking Air as a defendant....

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E.B. v. Basi

           Arising out of the settlement of the infant plaintiff’s tort claim, her lawyers, Acheson Whitley Sweeney Foley (the “law firm”), seek court approval of their fees. At a separate hearing on April 16, 2012, I approved the settlement of the infant’s claims for $13,000,000. However, I bifurcated the process insofar as legal fees are concerned and directed a separate hearing on June 29, 2012. Counsel for the law firm and for the Public Guardian and Trustee (“PGT”) participated in the hearing and, at its conclusion, I reserved judgment. These are my reasons for judgment....

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Sourisseau v. Peters

             The plaintiff claims damages arising from a motor vehicle accident which occurred in Victoria B.C. on August 19, 2007....

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Foubert v. Song

             On May 28, 2007 the plaintiff was driving her older model Volvo from downtown Vancouver, British Columbia to her home in Point Grey over the Burrard Street Bridge. Without warning she found herself struggling to control her vehicle after it was struck by the defendant’s Mazda RX8 seen by others immediately prior to the accident weaving in and out of traffic at a high rate of speed. The photographs of the vehicles reveal extensive damage to the Mazda and damage to the front end of the Volvo. The Volvo was written off....

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Cartwright v. Cartwright

             On June 17, 2007, the plaintiff, Caitlin Cartwright, was injured in a single vehicle accident on the Coquihalla Highway near Hope, BC. Ms. Cartwright was a passenger in the front seat, her parents were in the back, and her brother - the defendant Cody Cartwright - was driving. The car went off the road, down an embankment, and stopped in a cluster of small trees....

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Olynyk v. Turner

             The plaintiff was involved in a motor vehicle accident on December 15, 2008. Liability is admitted. What remains is an assessment of damages....

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Scoffield v. Jentsch

             In the trial of this action for damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff alleges that she was injured in a motor vehicle accident which occurred on April 9, 2009 in Nanaimo and alleges that the accident was caused solely by the negligent driving of the defendant.The Accident...

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Russell v. Parks

             Lenord Russell seeks damages for the injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle accident which occurred on August 21st, 2008 (the “Accident”)....

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