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Child impaled by branch while on Kootenay ATV ride loses legal case against driver
A Calgary man who was impaled by a tree branch while riding in a side-by-side…
Kamloops man awarded $550K after rear end accident
A Kamloops man involved in what appears to be a minor fender bender has been…
Property transfer to ex-wife revoked for indebted Osoyoos motel owner
An Osoyoos motel owner who was deep in debt tried to assign his share in…
Kelowna fentanyl dealer escapes heavy sentence
A Kelowna man caught with a massive amount of drugs, including fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine…
B.C. lawyer ‘lied, exaggerated’ injuries to make $2.8 million accident claim: judge
A former B.C. lawyer who sought $2.8 million in damages from five car accidents in…
B.C. judge rules 3rd parent in polygamous relationship can be registered with Vital Statistics
For the first time in B.C., two polyamorous parents have succeeded in having a third…
Judge orders B.C. doctor to raise spousal support payments to $24K per month
A B.C. doctor earning roughly $1 million per year was forced to share a larger…
B.C. quarantine-denier gets surprise bill for legal efforts
A B.C. man who spent four days in jail after breaching the Quarantine Act three…
B.C. man who left $1M estate to friends has will overturned by judge
A deceased B.C. man who purposely left his two children out of his will along…
Poor advice about foreign buyers tax costs B.C. law firm $75K
A B.C. real estate law firm is on the hook for $75,000 after it gave…
B.C. judge rules ‘Pastafarian’s’ treatment by ICBC not discrimination
A West Kootenay member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who was not…
Was she a tenant or in ‘marriage-like relationship? A judge will decide
A B.C. Supreme court judge has allowed a 79-year-old Kelowna woman to remain in the…
B.C. Supreme Court suspended until at least May 1 due to COVID-19 pandemic
Supreme Court in British Columbia is taking an adjournment. The Honourable Chief Justice Hinkson has…
ICBC recovers cash in staged accident in Surrey to collect insurance payouts
B.C.’s public auto insurer came up a bit short in a lawsuit alleging 13 members…
It wasn’t the fight: Chris Ausman was killed on Kelowna street in 2014 with a hammer
KELOWNA – Christopher Michael Ausman had just left the Rutland 7-Eleven at around 1:30 a.m.…
District of Summerland found liable for slippery sidewalk
The District of Summerland found out the hard way the consequences of not following written…
Blocking the path to higher learning
KELOWNA - The ongoing dispute between UBC Okanagan and the residents of Curtis Road which runs right behind the school has ended up again in the courts, blocking access to the popular back trail. Michael Shakespeare, the school’s vice-president of operations, said in a prepared statement that the easement granted to UBCO has not been...
Another example of the horrors of drug addiction: judge
KELOWNA - An admitted drug addict who brutally attacked another admitted drug addict pled guilty to aggravated assault and has been sentenced to two years in prison. James Andrew Miklik, 37, punched Margitt Laverentz 4 times after he felt she had “shorted” him on a drug deal and wasn’t happy with her response to his...
B.C. Supreme court judge awards $2.4M in car crash law suit
VERNON – A Salmon Arm man was awarded over $2.4 million by a B.C. Supreme Court judge in connection with a car crash near Salmon Arm three years ago. Justice Allen Betton awarded the money to 21-year-old Quentin Hermanson. Hermanson, formerly of Vernon, was a passenger in friend Ryan Durkee’s vehicle. They were driving on...
Dealer convicted despite arrest made on ‘hunch’
PENTICTON — A Penticton man was convicted of trafficking cocaine today, despite his lawyer's claims of sloppy police work by Penticton RCMP. Erik T.C. Larsen, born in 1984, was arrested in May 2012 for possession of cocaine with intent to sell in a dial-a-dope operation. While Penticton Supreme Court justice Alison Beames found him guilty...