The plaintiff, Young Ja Park, was injured in a motor vehicle accident on July 10, 2009. The defendants admitted liability for the accident. As a consequence of the accident, the plaintiff suffered soft tissue injuries, primarily to her neck and back. She went on to develop chronic pain disorder and lapsed into an episode of clinical depression of moderate severity lasting from 2010 to the spring or summer months of 2012....
By reasons for judgment dated April 13, 2015 (indexed at 2015 BCSC 555) I awarded the plaintiff damages for soft tissue injuries to her neck, back and shoulders sustained in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on July 10, 2009....
Joszef Bencsetler (the plaintiff) advances a tort claim for battery against Vancouver Police Department Cst. Ara Pehlivanian and the City of Vancouver (the defendants). The claim arises out of events surrounding the plaintiff's arrest by Cst. Pehlivanian at a Vancouver Canucks hockey game on April 10, 2010. The evidence establishes that the plaintiff suffered a serious shoulder injury in the course of his arrest. The plaintiff seeks a sizeable award for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages. In addition, he seeks a declaration that the circumstances and manner of his arrest violated his ss. 7 and 9 Charter rights, and damages pursuant to Ward v. Vancouver, 2010 SCC 27 arising out of his alleged arbitrary detention....
This action arises out of a motor vehicle accident that occurred February 8, 2011 (the "2011 accident"). The plaintiff, Ramezan Ali Salehi Hajikolai, was rear-ended by a vehicle driven by the defendant Daniel Lewis with the permission of the vehicle's owner, the defendant Chanel Ann Lewis....
This action concerns the determination of liability for injuries the plaintiff, Angela Boyd ("Boyd"), says she sustained in a motor vehicle accident that occurred July 22, 2010, at the intersection of Fraser Street and East 12th Avenue in Vancouver....
On October 17, 2009 the plaintiff, Robert Raymer, a self-employed restorer of vintage and other collectible automobiles, was injured in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on 24th Avenue in Langley, British Columbia. The defendants admit liability for the accident. Mr. Raymer seeks non-pecuniary damages, damages for past and future loss of earning capacity, special damages and a modest award for the cost of future care....
The plaintiff, Monique Kondraczynski, an employee of Canada Post, sustained soft tissue injuries to the upper and lower divisions of her left trapezius muscle in an automobile accident that occurred on November 6, 2007. At the time of the accident she was working as a temporary employee of Canada Post but had been getting regular full-time hours as a letter carrier for about three months. She was a few weeks shy of her fortieth birthday....
This is an application by I.R. under s. 17(1)(a) of the Divorce Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 3 (2nd Supp.) [the Act] to vary a spousal support order made by Parrett J. on February 18, 1993 requiring him to pay to his ex-wife, M.R., $4,400 per month. I.R. asserts that his decision to semi-retire with his second wife, P.R., constitutes a material change in circumstances since the making of the original order. The relief sought by I.R. on his notice of application is immediate termination of the obligation to pay spousal support. In oral argument, counsel for I.R. conceded that immediate termination of spousal support was unrealistic and proposed a reduction in monthly support to $1,779 for a three year period, after which his obligation to pay support would come to an end....
The plaintiff, Sabrina Wong, is a 36 year old single mother. She left high school in 1993, two credits short of obtaining her diploma. In 1996, she gave birth to a daughter, Brooke, who is now 15 years of age. The plaintiff has worked her entire adult life in the restaurant industry as a server. For the past 11 years, she has worked as a server at the Fairmont Vancouver Airport Hotel....
On May 30, 2006 at about 1:30 p.m. the plaintiff, Eileen Lennox, tripped over an elevation difference between sidewalk panels in front of 451 Fader Street in the City of New Westminster. Ms. Lennox fractured and dislocated her left shoulder, extensively bruised her left hip and suffered facial injuries in the ensuing fall. She was 69 years of age at the time of the trip and fall. Unfortunately, she died on November 16, 2011 after a brief battle with an aggressive form of cancer....