Aug 22, 2022 B.C. Court Finds no Liability for Company Hired to Clear Municipal Sidewalks By Duncan Taylor By Duncan Taylor, Lawyer A recent decision by the Supreme Court of British Columbia has found that a pedestrian who slips and falls on a...
Aug 17, 2022 Are You Working When Driving Home? Court Says ‘Yes’ By Brownlee Law By Jesse Stanich, Student-At-Law In the B.C. Court of Appeal case Dhillon v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal, 2022 BCCA 251, the...
Aug 16, 2022 Get with the Times: Alberta Court of Appeal Greenlights Videoconferencing By Kara Shaw By Kara Shaw, Student-At-Law In the recent case of Mostafa Altalibi Professional Corporation v Lorne S. Kamelchuk Professional...
Jun 27, 2022 Consider Your Safety: Visitors are Required to Act with Ordinary Diligence Under the OLA By Brownlee Law By Phoenix Howe, Student In the recent Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench decision of Westerveld v Cineplex Entertainment Corp, 2022...
Jun 13, 2022 Reasonable Safety is Sufficient to Absolve an Occupier of Liability Under the OLA By Brownlee Law By Phoenix Howe, Student In the recent Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench decision of Westerveld v Cineplex Entertainment Corp, 2022...
May 19, 2022 Collateral Attacks Fail Against Municipalities By Shad Chapman By the Brownlee LLP Litigation Team In Ekman v Brooks (City), the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench reinforced that it will not tolerate...
May 10, 2022 Damaged Curbs Do Not Attract Automatic Liability By Shad Chapman By the Brownlee LLP Litigation Team By utilizing key sections within the Municipal Government Act (MGA), the Municipality of Crowsnest...
May 04, 2022 Sunken Sprinkler Head Can’t Trip Up Municipal Government Act Protections By Shad Chapman By the Brownlee LLP Litigation Team In 2019 and 2020, our municipal litigation team successfully defended the City of Lethbridge against...
Apr 28, 2022 Inspections and Maintenance Key to a Strong Defence By Shad Chapman By the Brownlee LLP Insurance Defence Team Last week we discussed how the Municipal Government Act provides municipalities with defences...
Apr 20, 2022 When a Municipality is not Liable for Damages or Injury on its Property By Shad Chapman By the Brownlee LLP Insurance Defence Team It’s easy for anyone using a street, sidewalk, or public place to take their safety for...
Apr 07, 2022 Recliner Seats Are a Comfort Not a Hidden Hazard: Trip and Fall Case in Theatre Summarily Dismissed By Nabeel Peermohamed By Nabeel Peermohamed, Partner In Westerveld v Cineplex, Brownlee LLP’s lawyers were successful in having the Plaintiffs’ trip and fall...
Feb 04, 2022 Think Your Lawsuit is Worth Billions? Think Again By Nabeel Peermohamed By Nabeel Peermohamed, Partner In Sun v Allwest Insurance Services Ltd.,(1) the Court dealt with and ultimately dismissed the...