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Author: Kris Bonn (October 13, 2022, 11:58 AM EDT) — Anyone involved in the civil justice system in Ontario understands delay, with most cases taking many years to resolve. I was called to the bar in 2002 and in my 20 years of practising litigation, I’ve found that getting a case to trial usually takes four to six years from the date the statement of claim is filed. It wasn’t always this way and it doesn’t have to be this
By Kris Bonn Law360 Canada (September 27, 2024, 10:57 AM EDT) — Ever since the Ontario Court of Appeal released MacLeod v. Marshall, 2019 ONCA 842, judges of the Superior Court have struggled with the pre-judgment interest rate for non-motor vehicle collision personal injury cases. Two recent decisions from the Court of Appeal put an end to any question that the presumptive pre-judgment interest rate for non-pecuniary damages is five per cent. The same panel of Justice Lois Roberts, Justice
By Kris Bonn On July 29, 2014, 24-year-old Megan Desrochers suffered a severe brain injury when the all- terrain vehicle (ATV) she was driving left the roadway and struck a tree. At the time of the collision, she was travelling on Young Road in Prince Edward County en route to the home of Grant and Catherine McGinnis. The collision occurred less than one kilometre from the McGinnis home. Patrick McGinnis, Grant and Catherine’s son and Megan’s boyfriend at the time,
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