Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog

Everyone has a person in their lives who thinks that they know it all. I’ve met some very smart people in my life. But I’ve never met someone who knows everything, about everything. In fact, the smartest, most brilliant people I’ve met know exactly when they’re outside of their depth of understanding or knowledge. When that happens, they defer to the experts and surround them...

Some of the most interesting cases we see are sports injury cases. But, these are also some of the most difficult cases which Goldfinger Injury Lawyers sees as well.

Every little factual detail in these cases matters. Splitting hairs is what these cases are all about.

Often, in these sport cases, the nature of the injuries takes a back seat to liability (who...

This edition of the Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog addresses the viability of a civil tort claim against the OPP and/or the Crown arising from a poorly done police investigation into a fatal car crash.

The Tort of Public Misfeasance

What the Tort Requires

The leading case is the Supreme Court of Canada decision in

Courts are generally reluctant to find that those public functions meet the criteria of private law duties owed to individuals affected by those functions

For example, a victim...

One of my jobs as a personal injury lawyer is to explain to our clients how the law works, and how the law applies to their case.

Most people have ideas about how the law should work. But, those ideas aren’t based on law, fact, or anything else. Rather their ideas about how the law works are based on feelings, or something they’ve heard in passing from a friend, collea...