Vernon v. British Columbia (Liquor Distribution Branch) 2012 BCSC 133

The Court awarded our client 18 months severance, $35,000 in aggravated damages and $50,000 in punitive damages after she was wrongfully dismissed from her job of 30 years with the Liquor Board.
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Chan v. Dencan Restaurants, 2011 BCSC 1439

Our client is 63 years of age and was a managment level employee employed by Denny's for 15 years. The court found that our client had not resigned from his employment but had instead been wrongfully dismissed by Denny's and awarded him 18 months of severance.
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Ciaran Adams v. Washington Yachting Group ULC, Oct 11, 2011

Our client was dismissed for "cause" and was payed no severance. In a 73 page decision, the Court found that the employer had not proven it had cause to dismiss him and ordered that severance be paid.
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Masters Student A v. Univiversity B, Faculty Member C, & Faculty Member D, Reasons for Decision, May 12, 2011

Student A filed a complaint alleging that University B, Faculty Member C, and Faculty Member D, discriminated against him with respect to his participation in his Masters program on the basis of race, colour, ancestry, place of origin and sex, contrary to the Human Rights Code. The Respondents applied to have the complaint dismissed. We successfully defended the dismissal application on behalf of Student A and the case will now proceed to a full hearing.
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Ho v. Century Plaza Ltd. 10-34026

Our client was fired without severance. The employer claimed just cause based on allegations of harassment from other employees and a series of warning records placed in our client's employee file. The court found that there was no just cause because there was no harassment and because the employer failed to show our client the warning records. The court also said an employee is entitled to have their side of a dispute with a co-worker heard. Our client was awarded more than four months' severance pay.
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McIntosh v. Metro Aluminum Products and Augustynowicz 2011 BCHRT 34

Our client brought a successful human rights complaint against her former employer and boss for sexual harassment (unwanted text messages), and received approximately $29,500 in compensation, including $12,500 tax free in general damages for injury to dignity, feelings and self-respect.
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Richard Toop v. Canadian Electronics Corporation; January 11, 2011

When a defendant failed to attend Examination for Discovery, we obtained an order that our client's claim for wrongful dismissal proceed as if no defence had been filed.
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