Jennifer Frear Griffiths

This medical malpractice action concerned the plaintiff's claim of chronic pain resulting from the defendants' alleged negligence in treating a ruptured Achilles tendon.

The court found that while Dr. Boivin breached the standard of care by failing to properly immobilize the plaintiff's foot or refer her to a specialist, and Kingsway Health Centre was negligent in administrative follow-up, these breaches did not cause the plaintiff's injuries.

The plaintiff's own non-compliance with medical advice and delay in seeking surgery were found to be the cause of her worsened condition.

The court also found the plaintiff to be an unreliable and incredible witness regarding her injuries and financial losses.

The action was dismissed.

This criminal trial concerned charges of assault with a weapon and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle against Aaron J. George.

The charges arose from an incident in a busy parking lot where the accused, after being told to slow down, intentionally drove his vehicle into a pedestrian, causing him to fall onto the car's hood, and then sped away.

The court found the accused's testimony evasive and inconsistent, preferring the evidence of the Crown's witnesses.

The judge concluded that the accused's driving constituted an objectively dangerous marked departure from the standard of care and that the act of striking the pedestrian was intentional.

The accused was found guilty on both counts.

The accused pleaded guilty to assault of a police officer, breach of probation, uttering threats to kill, attempted theft of a motor vehicle, and mischief.

The offences occurred on October 30, 2019, and involved threatening a homeowner and her family, assaulting a security guard with racial slurs and damaging his phone, and spitting on a police officer's face while in custody.

The Crown sought 15-18 months imprisonment; the defence sought 9-12 months or time served given COVID-19 circumstances.

The court imposed a sentence of 1 day plus 252 days of enhanced presentence custody (8.2 months), effectively time served, along with a 12-month probation order with no-contact conditions and ancillary orders including a DNA order and 10-year weapons prohibition.

A young person was charged with second degree murder in connection with the death of S.K., who died from a single stab wound to the chest during a marijuana trafficking transaction that went wrong.

The accused admitted holding the knife that caused the fatal injury but claimed he was acting in self-defence and that the stabbing was accidental.

The Crown alleged intentional stabbing with either intent to kill or intent to cause bodily harm known to be likely to cause death.

The court found the accused not guilty of murder but guilty of unlawful act manslaughter, finding that while self-defence was not established, the accused did not have the specific intent required for murder.

The defendant was charged with assaulting a peace officer engaged in the execution of his duty.

Following a break and enter and theft of cigarettes, the defendant resisted arrest, struggled with police, and during the altercation at the scene, bit a police officer's hand.

The defendant claimed the officer's hand was cut by his broken tooth when the officer was punching him.

The court found the police officers' testimony credible and reliable, rejected the defendant's version as unreliable given his state of intoxication, and found the defendant guilty of assault on a peace officer based on both the biting incident and the overall violent and belligerent conduct during arrest.