Achievements

Our Commitment to Our Clients

At Simpson Thomas, we have a strong commitment to improving the lives of injured people and to public safety more generally. As such, our lawyers regularly attend personal injury conferences and are recognized for their excellence in the field.

Here are some of our achievements:

E. Anthony Thomas presented and wrote a paper on the topic of “Obtaining Foreign Clinical Records” at the 2008 Personal Injury Conference held by Continuing Legal Education BC.
- One of Anthony’s many notable wins includes the following case:
  Li, Ting Li et. al. v. Sandhu et. al., 2006 BCCA 79 (Court of Appeal)
Bernie Simpson, a recipient of the Order of Canada. Mr. Simpson was also awarded the prestigious Eloisa deLorenzo International Award by the International Brain Injury Association in Washington, DC. This award recognized his contributions during his service as a former Member of the Provincial Legislature in introducing bike helmet legislation. This life-saving legislation has served as a model for other jurisdictions throughout Canada.

Bernie has also been recognized by the Red Cross for his philanthropic activities in the Third World.

Jean-Marc Hebert was a lead counsel on this notable win. The case went to trial for five weeks in February and March 2008 and resulted in a resounding win on all claims, exceeding $700,000.00. The claim was for mild traumatic brain injury and chronic pain disorder. Case link.
Li, Ting Li et. al. v. Sandhu et. al., 2006 BCCA 79 (Court of Appeal)

The Defendants wanted to show Ms. Li’s experts surreptitious video surveillance and cross examine the doctors before trial rather than following the normal procedure by hiring their own experts. The British Columbia Court of Appeal agreed with Mr. Marcoux’s submission that the Defendants were trying to use a particular Rule of Court contrary to its intended purpose.
In 2003, Dairn Owen Shane, won a landmark victory in the Supreme Court of Canada, which struck down a British Columbia law. The case has been determined to be one of the 15 leading equality decisions decided under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Dairn also writes for Canada Law Book, a major legal publisher. Since 1997, he has been reading and summarizing for publication the majority of the personal injury judgments and related decisions coming out of the British Columbia courts.

Robert Marcoux co-authored an article “Got a Jury Trial? Be a Straight Shooter” that was published in “The Verdict”, a trial advocacy publication.

In November 2006, Mr. Marcoux was a guest speaker on the presentation of a chronic pain case to a trial judge at a Medical/Legal Conference on chronic pain. In addition to speaking at the conference, Mr. Marcoux wrote a paper on “Diminished Housekeeping Capacity.”

He also organized seminars for the Trial Lawyers Association in British Columbia and was actively involved in subsections of the Canadian Bar Association.