Although juries are understood to be the “great equalizers” and the community’s guide to what is just, to those peering in it appears that the appellate courts are acting as gatekeepers and have little difficulty reducing high awards in personal injury claims regardless of what the jury finds, Toronto critical injury lawyer Patrick Brown writes in The Lawyer’s […]
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A $2.2 million lawsuit alleging negligence has been filed against a York Region police officer and the police service that employs him after the death of an 18-year-old female pedestrian, says Toronto critical injury lawyer John McLeish, partner with McLeish Orlando LLP. In February, Natasha Carla Abogado was crossing St. Clair Ave. E., west of Warden Avenue.
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An Ontario ombudsman investigation into unlicensed daycares has found lax rules that were “barely being enforced” in a system with legal loopholes. The investigation was launched following the death of a two-year-old girl at a home daycare in Vaughan, Ont., north of Toronto last year. Ombudsman Andre Marin says Eva Ravikovich was one of four children
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Toronto critical injury lawyers John McLeish, Dale Orlando and Patrick Brown recently accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. McLeish, Orlando and Brown are all past presidents of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association. They were nominated for the challenge by Jim Vigmond, also a past president of OTLA. The trio did not take the challenge lightly. They dressed in business suits,
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Every year, thousands of cyclists across Ontario are injured in collisions with motor vehicles – but cottage country roads can prove particularly dangerous for those on bikes, Toronto critical injury lawyer Dale Orlando tells 105.5 Moose FM in Huntsville. “You have little or no shoulder, there’s reduced visibility because of all the twists and turns and hills on
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While government efforts to search for efficiencies in an attempt to reduce insurance rates should be applauded, its concept of a new dispute resolution system missed the mark, Toronto critical injury lawyer Patrick Brown tells Law Times. Through Bill 171, the Fighting Fraud and Reducing Automobile Insurance Rates Act, the Ontario government is attempting to speed up the system,
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Toronto critical injury lawyer John McLeish, of McLeish Orlando LLP, has once again been recognized in the 2014 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as an expert in personal injury. McLeish exclusively represents clients with serious personal injuries, including traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, as well as representing family members in wrongful death cases. He lectures and writes extensively on trial advocacy and matters
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Despite clear rules that state examination for discovery of a party is a one-time event, it is common practice in personal injury actions for defence counsel to schedule a further discovery of a plaintiff as if it’s an entitlement, Toronto critical injury lawyers Dale Orlando and Alison Burrison write in Lawyers Weekly. “There may be strategic reasons for plaintiff’s counsel
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The Alberta Court of Appeal released a “surprising decision” in which it has imported the obligation of establishing evidence of class-wide loss from the specialized field of price-fixing actions to a claim rooted in breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty causing a depreciation in share price, Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell writes in Canadian Lawyer. Finding
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Given the important role of judges in curbing inefficiencies, Toronto critical injury lawyer John McLeish tells Legal Feeds that he is supportive of a recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision that reaffirmed judges’ discretion to opt for hybrid trials. In Harris v. Leikin Group Inc., Superior Court Justice David Brown provided parties with specific directions about how the trial would take place,
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