Ches Crosbie Barristers Library

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Auto Accidents and Car Wrecks:

Safe Driving Contract
Description: This form of safe driving contract may assist parents and newly licensed drivers in their discussions around safety expectations and agree on safe practices.
Court of Appeal decision in motor vehicle accident case
Respondent's Brief filed with Court of Appeal over Appeal by Defendant/Appellant of Damages Assessment by Trial Judge
Written Argument on Interrogatory Appeal - Privacy and Confidentiality
Decision granting leave to appeal: Privacy of Pre-Accident Information [PDF]

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Accidents and Injuries:

Ches Crosbie Answers Questions on Injury Claims in CBC Interview [PDF]

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Medical Malpractice:

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Class Action Lawsuits:

Acreman v. MUN Certification Decision [PDF]
Description: Acreman v. MUN is a pension case granting certification in January 2010. It is a workmanlike effort which builds on jurisprudence which we have contributed to, including Rideout, Doucette and Wheadon.
Healthcare Class Actions: Bad Doctor or Bad System? [PDF]
Newfoundland and Labrador: Class Action Experience [PDF]
Description: This paper is prepared for the panel topic “National Update on Class Actions”, part of the Canadian Institute’s 2004 Forum on “Litigating Class Actions”. The paper will give some background on the origins of the Newfoundland and Labrador Class Actions Act, SNL 2001 C-18.1, contrast it with the legislation of other major jurisdictions, review the early jurisprudence, and offer comment on the risk posed by overlapping class actions being launched in multiple jurisdictions – a risk which affected the first Newfoundland case to achieve certification.
Mass Torts and Class Actions: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff [PDF]
Description: Mass torts and class actions have in common a numerosity of victims. The wrongdoer may be one or several. The wrong may be a single event, such as a train wreck, or a creeping wrong, such as a lung disease caused by asbestos or tobacco. Class actions are a legislative response (and after Western Shopping Centres, a judicial response) to the challenge of providing procedural solutions to the problems presented by numerosity of claims.

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Current Class Actions:

Breast Cancer Testing
Description: This class action lawsuit alleges a failure of quality control by the Eastern Regional Integrated Health Authority (responsible for the Cancer Care Program and the Bliss Murphy Cancer Centre in St. John's) in the testing of breast cancer tissue specimens for estrogen and progesterone hormone receptivity.
Residential Schools Labrador
Chocolate Makers Steal Candy from Babies
Description: In this class action the Plaintiffs allege that Cadbury, Mars, Nestle and Hershey conspired to fix and increase the price for chocolate confectionary products sold in Newfoundland and Labrador and elsewhere in Canada. Such acts would be illegal under the Competition Act. The Plaintiffs also allege conspiracy and other civil causes of action on behalf of residents of Newfoundland and Labrador who purchased chocolate products from January 1, 2001 through to the present.
Miramichi Pathology Class Action
Description: New Brunswick pathology errors class action
Goose Bay Contamination Class Action
Description: In spring 2004, Canada wrote to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and asked for a moratorium on further agricultural leases in the South Escarpment area of Happy Valley-Goose Bay. This stigmatized the produce of the area, putting an end to farm sales. Tom Angiers approached us to take action on behalf of himself and others in the agricultural area, and in 2007 Canada asked us to include the Main Gate area and the Hamilton River Road area in the class action.

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Settled Class Actions:

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Breast Cancer Testing Class Action Documents:

Notice of Final Settlement [PDF]
Description: Notice of Final Settlement in the Breast Cancer Testing Class Action
Decision of Thompson J - February 12, 2010 [PDF]
No Rubber Stamp - Telegram, February 3, 2010 [PDF]
Certification Decision [PDF]
Ches Crosbie interviewed on breast cancer testing compensation payments and fees
Description: Ches Crosbie intereviewed on January 7, 2010 on breast cancer testing class action compensation payments and fees by Out of the Fog

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Miramichi Pathology Class Action:

Update - February 2009 [PDF]
Description: Ches Crosbie and Ray Wagner, as counsel for the plaintiffs, were in Miramichi on February 9 for a hearing before Justice Oulette to get an early date for the certification hearing.
Affidavit of Mike Dull [PDF]
Notice of Motion [PDF]

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Chocolate Price Fixing Class Action Documents:

Notice of Settlement Approval Hearing - French - February 11, 2010 [PDF]
Description: AVIS D’APPROBATION DES RÈGLEMENTS DANS L’AFFAIRE DU
RECOURS COLLECTIF AYANT TRAIT AUX PRODUITS DE CHOCOLAT
Notice of Settlement Approval Hearing - English - February 11, 2010 [PDF]
Description: Notice of Certification and Settlement Approval Hearing in the matter of Chocolate Products Class Action Litigation.
Statement of Claim - Chocolate Price Fixing [PDF]
Daniel Wilcock Sworn Statement [PDF]

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Video Lottery Terminals Class Action Documents:

Certification Application issued December 2009 [PDF]
Affidavit of Keith Piercey - December 2009 [PDF]
Affidavit of Robert Tucker - December 2009 [PDF]
Affidavit of Sheri Geehan - December 2009 [PDF]
Affidavit of Kevin A. Harrigan, PhD - December 2009 [PDF]

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Advanced Medical Optics Class Action Documents:

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Payday Loans Class Action Documents:

Payday Loans
Quick Cash Statment of Claim [PDF]
Payday Plus Statement of Claim [PDF]
Payday Loans Press Release [PDF]
Money Mart Statement of Claim [PDF]

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OxyContin Class Action Documents:

OxyContin
Statement of Claim - OxyContin [PDF]

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Light Cigarettes Class Action Documents:

Application to file Brief in Reply [PDF]
Brief on the Application to file Brief in Reply [PDF]
Victor Sparkes' Reply in Light Cigarettes Appeal [PDF]
Memorandum of Argument for Leave to Appeal
Affidavit of A.J. Liston [PDF]

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Lab City Class Action Documents:

Litigation Plan [PDF]
Press Release - February 9, 2004 [PDF]
Introduction [PDF]
Decision of Justice Russell [PDF]
Consent Order [PDF]

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Newsletter Archive:

Fall 2009 Newsletter [PDF]
Summer 2009 Newsletter [PDF]
Ten Mistakes People Make [PDF]
Description: This was a valuable and informative postcard distributed to our mailing list in January 2009. If you would like to receive future mailings, please contact my office at (709) 579-4000 and ask to be placed on our mailing list.
Newsletter Winter 2009 [PDF]
Description: This is our firm newsletter which was distributed in March 2009.
Newsletter Fall 2008 [PDF]

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Public Law Library:

How To Stop Thinking Like a Lawyer and Love It [PDF]
Description: Ches Crosbie had the honor of addressing a talk to an audience of law students and professors at Dalhousie Law School in early October 2009. Here's what he said.
Court Decisions on Class Actions in Newfoundland and Labrador
Description: Newfoundland class actions
Injured Doctor Looks For Help From Supreme Court of Canada [PDF]
Description: The Supreme Court of Canada is a great court, but the problem is you can't get there. Only about 1 in 10 civil cases which ask for leave of the Court to be heard on appeal, obtain that leave or permission. The Court decides whether to hear a case based on its priorities for the development of the law, not based on whether the Court of Appeal has committed a terrible mistake or caused a great injustice. The briefs on leave to appeal below were compelling and cried out an injustice that needed to be remedied, but the Court had other priorities.
Injured Doctor Looks For Help From Supreme Court of Canada Part II [PDF]
Court of Appeals Reverses Trial Decision: Ditch Dangerous but Premises Safe (go figure!)
Description: If you want to see the decision in which the Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal reversed the trial decision and ruled that the defendant did not have to pay anything, click here.

Many people are puzzled by how the Court of Appeal could leave the finding of the Trial Judge intact, that the ditch was deep and dangerous, while ruling that the premises were reasonably safe. It seems to be a logical contradiction, doesn’t it?

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Description: Winter 2010 Newsletter
A real class act
Local Lawyer Receives Mainland Recognition [PDF]
Description: In late May 2009 Mr. Crosbie was awarded the Bruce T. Hillyer Award for "fearlessly advancing the cause of individual rights by the effective use of trial advocacy."
Ches Crosbie Answers Questions on Injury Claims in CBC Interview [PDF]
Ches Crosbie - A real class act
Description: Telegram story published November 24, 2008 about Newfoundland personal injury lawyer Ches Crosbie.

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