This is an application for double costs brought by successful defendants after trial. The defendants submit that they are entitled to double costs after November 29, 2006, the date on which they served a formal offer to settle under the then existing Rule. The formal offer was made under old Rule 37 and did not include an expiry date. It was an offer to settle this proceeding for the sum of $5,000 and costs....
On September 9, 2003, Ms. Tran went to shop in a store called Secret Nail and Beauty Supply. She wanted to buy some supplies, including some acetone, for a manicure and pedicure business she ran. Ms. Tran picked up a gallon plastic jug of acetone and placed it on the counter so that she could pay for it. Somehow the jug fell from the counter. Its contents leaked on the floor. Ms. Tran slipped and fell on the acetone. She injured her lower back. At first it did not seem to be serious. But she did not recover from her injury and some months later had surgery to relieve pressure on a nerve that was causing pain to radiate down her leg. The surgery was, at best, only partially successful. Ms. Tran continues to have back problems that limit her ability to work....
At the conclusion of a summary trial I invited counsel to make submissions in writing dealing with the issue of costs. The summary trial involved the assessment of damages for the infant plaintiff who was injured in a motor vehicle accident....
Counsel for the defendants applies to be released from the implied undertaking as to confidentiality for documents originating in a previous action involving the plaintiff. The documents in question are in the possession of counsel for the defendants because he was counsel in the previous action involving the same plaintiff....
This is a trial of liability for a motor vehicle accident that occurred at about 9:45 p.m. on the evening of March 8, 2008 at the intersection of West 41st Avenue (41st Avenue) and Angus Drive in Vancouver (the Accident). The plaintiff, Cameron Knight, was the operator of a Volvo proceeding southbound on Angus Drive. The defendant, Jing Shu Li, was driving a BMW 750i owned by his mother, the defendant, Li Hong Lu, proceeding eastbound in the curb or slow lane on 41st Avenue. 41st Avenue is a through street in excess of 18 metres wide with four lanes for travel and additional room for parking on each side. Drivers entering 41st Avenue from Angus Drive face a stop sign. The view to the right of 41st Avenue from the stop sign is obscured by a hedge, requiring a driver to pull forward to close to the curb edge of 41st Avenue to get a clear view of traffic heading eastbound....
At about 10:42 p.m. on the evening of September 10, 2001, a collision occurred between two vehicles at the intersection of Pinnacles Road and the Nazko Highway some 10-12 kms northwest of Quesnel. The Nazko Highway is the through road with the right-of-way over traffic joining it from Pinnacles Road. There is a stop sign at the intersection on Pinnacles Road. The Nazko Highway runs broadly east to west. Pinnacles Road joins it from the south....
This is an application to adjourn the trial currently set to be heard with a jury commencing April 11, 2011 for 20 days....
The parties state a Special Case to answer the following question:Did the plaintiff make all reasonable efforts, as required by section 24(5) of the Insurance (Vehicle) Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 231, to ascertain the identity of the driver or owner of the alleged unidentified motor vehicle (the Unidentified Vehicle) involved in the collision on October 27, 2006 (the Accident)?...
Introduction[1] This is an application by the defendants for an order for production of documents pursuant to Rule 26(11) of the Rules of Court....