Because the proceeding was intitally commenced as a joint action for pension and employment law claims, after the severance, it was necessary to start a new action for the employment law claims. A new action was commenced on April 4, 2003. Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim, revised to exclude Pension Claims
In this wrongful dismissal action we were lawyers for a senior vancouver police inspector who had invented the investigative tool of Geographic Profiling for making efficient use of police resources in serial murder cases. Trial Judgement Appeal Judgement The important employment law case received some interest in the media: Vancouver Province, October 18, 2001 Vancouver … Continued
On Thursday, February 13, 2003 the Honourable Judge Elizabeth Bennett pronounced Reasons for Judgement certifying the Western Star proceeding as a class action under the Class Proceedings Act. As well, the judge ordered that the pension claims and the employment claims be “severed”. This has required class counsel to commence a separate action for the … Continued
Tuesday, October 15, 2002 TevlinGleadle appeared again in the British Columbia Supreme Court before Madam Justice Bennett, and presented submissions as to why the action commenced in this proceeding should be certified as a class action: Copy of Plaintiff’s Memorandum of Argument in favour of Certification Submissions were made by counsel for Freightliner and the … Continued
On Tuesday, October 15, 2002 TevlinGleadle (Murray Tevlin, Dan Gleadle & Dagmar Dlab) appeared again in the British Columbia Supreme Court before Madam Justice Bennett, and presented submissions as to why the action commenced in this proceeding should be certified as a class action: Copy of Plaintiff’s Memorandum of Argument in favour of Certification Submissions … Continued
On September 13, 2002, TevlinGleadle filed with the court a written submission with a summary of the case, and reasons why, in the plaintiff’s view, it would be appropriate for this matter to continue as a class proceeding. Our submission can be found at: Plaintiff’s Submission on Certification Motion
On September 13, 2002, TevlinGleadle filed with the court a written submission with a summary of the case, and reasons why, in the plaintiff’s view, it would be appropriate for this matter to continue as a class proceeding. Our submission can be found at: Plaintiff’s Submission on Certification Motion
On July 24th, 2002 TevlinGleadle filed documents with the Supreme Court of British Columbia in support of the plaintiff’s application for certification. These documents can be viewed by clicking the following links: Peter Gregg’s Notice of Motion, dated July 24, 2002, a document setting out the orders that will be sought at the certification hearing … Continued
On July 24th, 2002 TevlinGleadle filed documents with the Supreme Court of British Columbia in support of the plaintiff’s application for certification. These documents can be viewed by clicking the following links: Peter Gregg’s Notice of Motion, dated July 24, 2002, a document setting out the orders that will be sought at the certification … Continued
On July 10, 2002 TevlinGleadle received notice that the Supreme Court of British Columbia had appointed Madam Justice Bennett as the judge who will be responsible for the trial of the action, as well as pre-trial management matters, including the certification hearing and all other motions in the case, unless otherwise ordered.
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