Special Lectures 2008. Personal Injury Law
- Publisher:
- Irwin Law Inc.
- Publication date:
- 2009-09-02
- Authors:
- Law Society of Upper Canada
- ISBN:
- 9781459336711
Description:
These are the first Special Lectures devoted to personal injury law in 10 years. The book continues the tradition of excellence, bringing together commanding thinkers from the litigation bar, the judiciary and the medical profession. It provides in-depth analysis of pivotal developments of the last decade, examines leading cases and explores the dominant themes in personal injury law today. The book discusses catastrophic injuries and the AMA guidelines, demonstrative evidence at trial, mass torts, and other important topics.
Index
- Preliminary Sections
- Preface
- Desbiens and Everything After
- Catastrophic Injuries and Understanding the AMA Guides
- Fifteen Years of Accident Benefits: The Tort-Accident Benefit Collateral Interface
- Accident Benefit Issues Hot off the Press
- Mild-to-Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury: The Facts
- Punitive and Aggravated Damages in Personal Injury Awards: Who Pays, How Much, and under What Circumstances
- The Challenges of Representing Children
- The Role of the Children's Lawyer in Judicial Approval of Minor Settlements
- The Admissibility of Demonstrative Evidence in Jury Trials: Applying the Principled Approach to the Law of Evidence
- Customized Demonstrative Evidence for Personal Injury Litigation: Medical Illustrations, Animations, and Interactive Media
- Use or Operation' of an Automobile: A Case-by-Case Approach
- Tales of Sound and Fury: Factual Causation in Tort after Resurfice
- Jury Openings: Understanding the Rules
- Proving Pain
- Tales from Teno: The Trial and the Appeals
- Accident Benefits: Lessons from the Past with the Hope for a Better Insurance Product in the Future
- The Future of Personal Injury Litigation in Ontario: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?
- Writing Strategically and Persuasively for the Personal Injury Plaintiff
- Recovery of Individual and Aggregate Damages in Class Actions
- Mediation: Where Have All the Settlements Gone?
- Mediation Advocacy: A Mediator's Perspective
- Liability of Road Authorities in the Post-MacMillan Era
- Minimum Maintenance Standards and the Municipal Act, 2001: Lessons Learned from Thornhill (Litigation Guardian of) v. Shadid
- The Undervaluation of Non-pecuniary and Income-Based Damage Awards in Sexual Abuse Cases: Do Gender and Aboriginal Factors Play a Role?
- The Future of Vicarious Liability
- Table of Cases
- Index