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.




Berry v. LaBelle

           Mr. Berry was injured in a motor vehicle accident caused by the negligence of the defendant, Ms. LaBelle.   Following a trial heard on May 12 to 15, 2009, I issued Reasons for Judgment on February 26, 2010.  I awarded the sum of $30,000 in damages to Mr. Berry.  In the final paragraph of the February 26, 2010 Reasons I indicated that if there were factors relevant to the issue of costs that had not been brought to my attention, counsel were at liberty to make submissions about costs.  I specified that submissions should be delivered on or before March 26, 2010....

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Mendoza-Flores v. Haigh

           The plaintiff, Karen Mendoza-Flores, was injured in two separate motor vehicle accidents, both of which occurred on Departure Bay Road in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The first accident, involving the first defendant, Patricia Haigh, occurred on September 24, 2007. The second accident, involving the second defendant, Timothy Harmeson, occurred on May 7, 2008....

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Lee v. MacLean

           The plaintiff, Mr, Shun Lee, was involved in two motor vehicle accidents in 2003.  The first occurred on 14 August (“Accident #1”) and the second on 12 October (“Accident #2”).  I will refer to the two accidents combined as the “2003 Accidents”....

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Insurance Corporation of British Columbia v. Husseinian

             THE COURT:  This is an application by the plaintiff Insurance Corporation of British Columbia for the assessment of damages against Dawood Shahin Husseinian and Ahmad Ahmadi for insurance fraud.  The defendants have not appeared to the action and a default judgment has been registered against them.  As a result of the default judgment, the defendants are deemed to have admitted all of the allegations.  See Insurance Corporation of British Columbia v. Husseinian, 2008 BCSC 241....

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Beer v. Nickerson

             The plaintiff applies for an order that certain items listed in Part III of the defendant Nickerson’s list of documents be produced for inspection. Ms. Nickerson claims privilege over the documents on the basis that each item was created for the dominant purpose of litigation at a time when litigation was a reasonable possibility.Background...

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Poulton v. Inderbosch

             In this action the plaintiff Angela Victoria Poulton sues for damages for injuries which she suffered in a motor vehicle accident on January 27, 2006.  The defendant Brent Morris Inderbosch has admitted that he is solely responsible for the accident....

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Shannahan v. Johnson

             The plaintiff, James Grant Shannahan (“Mr. Shannahan”), brings this action against four physicians for medical negligence and defamation.  Mr. Shannahan is impecunious and at trial was self-represented.  He is an intelligent man, an autodidact, with obvious abilities. ...

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Pham-Fraser v. Smith

             On March 15, 2010 I issued reasons awarding the plaintiff $412,198.53 for damages arising from personal injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident which occurred January 16, 2006....

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Cowie v. Draper

             The defendants apply under Rule 18A for an order dismissing an action by the plaintiff on the basis that it is statute barred by the Limitation Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 266, (the “Act”). The plaintiff is seeking damages for the alleged negligence of the defendants during the birth of her first child on April 28, 2003....

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Brooks v. Gilchrist

             This is an action for damages for personal injuries allegedly suffered by the plaintiff in two motor vehicle accidents, the first on January 31, 2006 and the second on February 2, 2007....

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Legault v. Brock Shopping Centre Ltd.

             This is a claim for personal injury damages arising out of an outdoor slip and fall in a shopping centre. The fall occurred on the margin of the parking lot and a covered sidewalk along the store fronts, within an area that is clearly the responsibility of the defendant landlord to maintain. The action was dismissed by consent against the other defendants, retail tenants, at the outset of the trial. The shopping centre denies liability.Review of the Evidence Relating to the Conditions and the Plaintiff’s Fall...

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Spencer v. Horton

             As in Spencer v. Popham, 2010 BCSC 683, released concurrently with this decision (Victoria 09-2313), Melanie Spencer commenced her action in Supreme Court but settled her claim for an amount within the Small Claims Court’s jurisdiction. Nevertheless, is she entitled to costs in this Court? The test is whether there was “sufficient reason” for her to commence the claim in Supreme Court.Background...

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