It has been snowy. It has been slushy. It has been drizzly. It has been icy. It has been icky. It has been yucky. It has been dreary. It has been mucky. How else would you describe slip and fall season? Few people in Ontario describe the weather in January…
Records are the building materials to any personal injury case. Lucky for you, it’s not your responsibility to gather all of those records. Your personal injury lawyer will get all, or the vast majority of those records own your behalf. A witness can say one thing at discovery, or up…
Injured accident victims in personal injury cases will not get the benefit of the doubt. A big part of that is because how our legal system works. At law, an injured Plaintiff is required to establish their case to a Judge and Jury. The Plaintiff is required to bring evidence…
It’s rather chilly in Ontario, with temperatures getting around the negative double digits. When it gets this cold, ice forms and hardens significantly, making for difficult walking conditions on both public sidewalks, and private driveways and walkways. Despite the poor walking conditions, there are still some daredevils out there who…
Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada released a decision which upheld key protections for sexual assault victims. The decision is R. v. J. J. In the wake of the Me Too Revolution, Canadian parliament changed the Criminal Code to establish more protections for sexual assault victims. Let’s say an…
You have to believe in your own case. If you don’t believe in it, then who will? If you don’t care, then who will? If you don’t try to help yourself, then who will. While this may sound like self respect or motivational mumbo jumbo; it’s true! A good personal…
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. These opinions differ from person to person….and that’s ok. Opinions can be based on a lot of different things: fact, belief, values, upbringing, history, education, training, experience, a gut feeling; or based on absolutely nothing at all! You don’t need evidence to craft…
Sand castles are built of sand. Log cabins are build of wood. Large office towers and built of concrete, steel and glass. And personal injury and long term disability cases are built of medical records! The evidence of any personal injury case establishes the foundation upon which cases are built.…
Personal Injury, Long Term Disability and Car Accident cases across Ontario are built upon EVIDENCE. Our legal system doesn’t play out in such a way as a Plaintiff makes a claim, yells a lot that they’re entitled to compensation, and then they get what they want. If Courts worked that way,…