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This week the Globe & Mail published a scathing assessment of Canada’s civil court law system. Any lawyer who works in civil litigation and all of their clients already know how badly our system is broken. I attended a trial management court this morning...
September 21, 2015 Girones Lawyers once again will be holding a free legal clinic in Pembroke on October 15th, 2015 and in Brockville, November 5th, 2015. Andrea Girones will be meeting with clients and answering questions on a wide variety of personal injury and...
September 14th 2015 1) Is my Brachial Plexus Injury Permanent The vast majority of brachial plexus birth injuries are resolved by 2 years of age. Nerves that are not severed can heal over time and much function can be restored. These injuries are not...
September 9, 2015. All medical malpractice cases are fought vigorously, but few cases draw the kind of fierce defence that obstetricians put up in cases involving birth trauma and a baby who suffers from Erb’s Palsy. Erb’s Palsy is a nerve injury to a newborn baby...
July 13, 2015 This case proceeded to trial before a Judge and Jury. After two weeks of trial the case was resolved shortly before the Judge was to charge the jury. Below are the kind words from our client’s father. Names have been changed to protect the privacy of the...
June 30th, 2015 Several changes to the Ontario Accident Benefits regime in recent years has meant that yes, you DO need many of the optional benefits offered by your car insurance company. Because theses optional increases cost more money, many people opt not to...
April 26th, 2015 As a lawyer practicing in litigation for almost 20 years I have rarely been happier to see a Court of Appeal decision as I have with the recent decision in Westerhof v. Gee Estate 2015 ONCA 206. A simple 2010 rule change in our Civil Procedure book...
May 4th, 2015 No fault accident benefits were supposed to compensate Ontario drivers for the significant reduction in their right to sue. 20 years ago when the right to sue for car accidents was restricted to serious and permanent injuries, the quid pro quo was a...
There have been some very interesting decisions from the Ontario Superior Court dealing with motor vehicle accident cases in the past few months. They deal with issues we frequently help our clients solve: chronic pain and surveillance. The December 2014 case of...
Girones Lawyers once again will be holding a free legal clinic in Pembroke on April 27th, 2015. Andrea Girones will be meeting with clients and answering questions on a wide variety of personal injury and medical malpractice topics. Andrea has a particular expertise...
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