This is an appeal by the Crown from the decision of a provincial court judge to stay certain charges against the respondent, Mr. Van de Graaf, pursuant to s. 24(1) of the Charter, as a result of police misconduct in the course of his arrest. For the reasons that follow I would not interfere with the decision of the trial judge.I. FACTS...
The plaintiff was a front seat passenger in a vehicle driven by her husband, the defendant Dmitriy Minenko, on August 29, 2009 when it was in collision with another vehicle at the intersection of 8th Avenue and 20th Street in New Westminster....
On October 23, 2010, the plaintiff was driving her car eastbound on Kingsway Avenue in Burnaby, British Columbia, when she was rear-ended by a car being driven by the defendant....
The plaintiff seeks damages for personal injury as a result of a motor vehicle accident. Liability is admitted....
Mr. Parhar claims damages arising from a motor vehicle accident of April 24, 2008....
This action is brought by the plaintiff to recover damages from injuries she says she suffered as a result of a motor vehicle collision....
These three actions being heard together arise from three motor vehicle accidents involving the plaintiff, Sheila Munoz, that respectively took place on September 9, 2007, June 15, 2009 and June 21, 2011. I will sometimes refer to the accidents collectively, and at other times separately as the First Accident, the Second Accident and the Third Accident. Liability for the accidents has been admitted by each of the defendants....
This is an assessment of damages for physical and psychological injuries sustained by the plaintiff, Brenda Andrews, in a motor vehicle accident which occurred on October 10, 2009 at the intersection of West 16th Avenue and Fir Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. The plaintiff was driving west on West 16th toward Fir Street when a vehicle driven by the defendant Gail Mainster and owned by the defendant Harold Chaim Gutovich struck her vehicle while making a left turn from Fir Street. Liability has already been determined. By Reasons for Judgment indexed as Andrews v. Mainster, 2012 BCSC 823, the Honourable Mr. Justice Masuhara found the defendant Gail Mainster to be entirely at fault. ...
Bait car activation -- lets go! Those words, spoken by the Campbell River RCMP watch commander, resulted in the immediate deployment of four police officers, each in separate cars, all proceeding in urgent or emergency fashion to the bait car location. At an intersection just 158 metres from the detachment driveway, one of the police cars T-boned a car driven by Erika Watkins, who was turning left when the police car attempted to pass her on the left. The collision caused injuries to Ms. Watkins that changed her life and which may be permanent....
This is a cost assessment in a personal injury action. The action was settled three days before commencement of the trial....