Our colleagues Jai Singh Sheikhupura and Kirstin Jamison recently recorded a decisive win against a society seeking to maintain a monopoly over cricket in the Lower Mainland: Chowdhury v. British Columbia Mainland Cricket Association, 2025 BCSC 2041. The case was picked up on MSN.com. View the full article here: B.C. Judge orders cricket association to drop rule against new league. Acting for the franchise owners of Last Man Stands Canada (a new international amateur league operating in the Lower Mainland), Jai and Kirsti sought relief under the Societies Act arguing that a rule imposed by the the BC Mainland Cricket…
Month: November 2025
Robert Brun, KC and Ryan Monty were counsel for one of the respondents in Gill v. Seikham, 2025 BCCA 356, where the Court of Appeal provided a succinct analysis of the state of the law on liability in BC and dismissed the plaintiff’s appeal from the trial court finding that she was 20% contributorily negligent for the second of two accidents. Ryan was trial counsel and, in cross examination, elicited key evidence from the plaintiff about her own culpability in her second accident. Namely, she saw a vehicle behind her not slowing down, but was too close to the vehicle…
November 6, 2025
Canadian Lawyer Magazine reports on HBLC’s successful appeal in loss of future earning capacity case.
Harris & Brun
Our colleagues Robert Brun, KC and Jennifer Brun, KC were counsel in King v. Karpenko, 2025 BCCA 357, where the BC Court of Appeal granted the appeal of the defendant from a trial finding awarding the plaintiff a future loss of capacity award on the basis of a hypothetical possibility. The case provides an instructive example of how courts should approach calculating future loss of capacity awards and was picked up for comment in Canadian Lawyer Magazine. Read the full article: BC Court of Appeal sees error in finding injured man likely to be police if not for accident. The…