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.




Moukhine v. Collins

              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....

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Laurie v. Insurance Corp. of British Columbia

             Richard Laurie is a plumbing contractor and gas fitter who, in September 2008, had three employees working at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Langford.  When some large payments came through for Mr. Laurie and other contractors working at the hotel, they celebrated at the adjacent West Coast Taphouse over the course of a Friday evening. ...

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Charlie v. Canada Safeway Limited

             In this action the plaintiff seeks to recover damages for injuries sustained in a fall she suffered in the defendant’s retail store in Duncan, B.C., on August 1, 2006....

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Cue v. Breitkreuz

             This action arises out of a motor vehicle collision in which the plaintiff’s car was struck from the rear by the defendants’ truck. The plaintiff said the collision occurred while he was stopped, waiting to make a left turn. The defendant said the plaintiff suddenly changed lanes, then stopped in front of him, leaving no opportunity to avoid the collision. By agreement of counsel, this trial dealt only with the issue of liability....

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Cliff v. Dahl

             THE COURT:  The defendant appeals from a decision of a Master who dismissed an application to compel production of statements taken on behalf of plaintiff's counsel from three witnesses....

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Pearlman v. Atlantic Trading Company Ltd.

             Mr. Pearlman commenced these actions relating to claims arising from a motor vehicle accident which occurred in November 2004.  The first action is a tort claim for injuries arising from the accident, and the second action is a negligence claim against the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) based on his assertion that ICBC had requested a medical report from his family doctor whose authorization to provide the report had been revoked by the plaintiff....

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Josephson v. Balfour Recreation Commission

             The third party applicants Kootenai Medical Center, Dr. Mark Manteueffel, Dr. Kevin Chang, Dr. James Osmanski, Dr. David York, Dr. Jeffrey McDonald, and Dr. William Ganz seek an order that the third party proceedings brought against them by the defendant Christopher Clark be dismissed on the basis that this Court lacks jurisdiction over them....

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Ruzic v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

             This is an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of a master made February 15, 2008, dismissing the plaintiff’s application that the defendant produce a list of the motor vehicles owned by some 360 inhabitants of four multi-residential buildings in Vancouver, and the drivers’ licence photos of those named persons. The plaintiff also sought to adduce new evidence at the hearing but I am satisfied that the historical material was properly considered at an earlier stage.Background...

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Hartley v. RCM Management Ltd.

             This case arises out of an incident which occurred in the Barfly Cabaret on February 23, 2002. Russ Kenneth Hartley, who was 22 years old, was injured when he was struck by a beer bottle in his right eye by an unidentified assailant. As a result of the injury, he lost vision in his right eye. The defendants, 582642 B.C. Ltd. and 58642 B.C. Ltd. doing business as Barfly Cabaret (collectively “the corporate defendants”) were the operators of the Barfly at the time....

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Pavlovich v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

             In this action for disability benefits, the issue is whether the plaintiff was an employed person when he was injured in a motor vehicle accident. To be an employed person for the purpose of qualifying for disability benefits, the plaintiff must have worked for 6 of the 12 months immediately preceding his injury. The plaintiff asserts that because he had worked approximately 1,100 hours in the preceding year he must be taken to have worked for at least 6 of the previous 12 months. The defendant argues that the plaintiff accumulated those hours of work over a period of only 20 or 21 weeks and that the plaintiff cannot, therefore, be said to have worked for 6 of the previous 12 months.The Facts...

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Morrison v. Peng

             This is a personal injury action arising from a motor vehicle accident that occurred in the late afternoon on May 29, 2006, at the intersection of Buswell Street and Cook Road in Richmond, B.C., where there is a four-way stop....

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