If during negotiations a partys insurer requests photocopies of documents from the other party, may the latter partys counsel use the Legal Profession Act[1] (the LPA) to pursue payment from the insurer? BACKGROUND...
This is a personal injury proceeding in which the defendant numbered company applies under Rule 7-1 for production of Worksafe BC (WBC) records for Mr. Burgess for the period January 1, 2000 to August 18, 2005. The application is opposed by Mr. Burgess.BACKGROUND...
This is the assessment of party and party costs arising in a personal injury case, brought under Rule 15-1(Fast Track).BACKGROUND...
The defendant applies for an order dismissing Mr. Toors claim for want of prosecution.BACKGROUND...
The plaintiff applies for an order that Dr. Roy OShaughnessy be appointed as a joint expert in these personal injury proceedings. I dismissed the application at the hearing with reasons to follow and these are those reasons.BACKGROUND...
Ms. Kailay seeks damages for two separate motor vehicle accidents. The trial of these claims had been set for April 4, 2011for 15 days before a jury. On the defendants application I adjourned that trial for reasons given briefly below. This decision concerns what conditions, if any, should attach to the adjournment.BACKGROUND...
This is the assessment of the costs of the plaintiff in personal injury litigation.BACKGROUND...
Mr. John M. Sims, past committee and current executor of the estate of Gordon Anderson Hall, applies for two heads of relief (to quote the application): to pass his accounts for the period February 28th, 2005 through May 19th, 2009 andto recommend a fair and reasonable allowance for Mr. Sims for his care, pain, trouble, and time expended in and about the estate in administering, disposing of, arranging, and settling the affairs of the estate during the same period. ...
THE COURT: This is an application arising from a motor vehicle accident which occurred on the 25th of December, 2006, and apparently there was a subsequent accident as well. The trial is set for about two weeks hence, a little less perhaps, the 13th of September....