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We understand even the thought of having to meet with a lawyer, in general, can cause feelings of anxiety. To help alleviate your worries, we have put together some useful information to help sufficiently prepare you for meeting specifically with an injury lawyer. The injury lawyer will ask you questions about: your doctor’s medical reports and their diagnosis of your

To better understand you, as a resident of Simcoe County and your questions surrounding the law and your personal rights, our legal team conducted an analysis of all the calls our personal injury intake department received over the past year. In our findings, we noted that one of the most common questions asked of our staff was “is my injury

We know it can seem to be a very daunting task, taking that first step in seeking legal representation for your injury.  The intake department of our personal injury law firm has had numerous people call in and say that they just don’t know if they should be contacting a lawyer. They don’t think it is worth it to contact

Rastin & Associates is very proud our Associate Lawyer Anita W. H. Wong.  After a long and hard-fought summary judgment battle on behalf of Ryan Turcotte and his family, the family’s request for appeal has been granted by the highest court in the province, the Ontario Court of Appeal, and the family will have a chance to have their matter

In a Letter to the Editor in The Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton lawyer and a former president of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association Dermot P. Nolan says that though our courts expect witnesses to tell the truth, the reality is troublingly different. Mr. Nolan believes that systematic constructs often keep the jury in the dark about what is really going on,

We all love a good David vs. Goliath story. You know, the one from Samuel in the Bible, where a little shepherd boy David has nothing but a sling shot and rock in his battle against the nine-foot soldier Goliath, but still manages to hit him in the head and win the battle?  Score one for the underdog, the little guy…

On October 15, 2014, the plaintiff, Slava Kushnir, was accidentally struck by the defendant’s vehicle as she was walking across the parking lot of a shopping plaza.  Ms. Kushnir was thrown onto the hood of the defendant’s car and then onto the pavement. She sustained serious injuries to her back, neck and pelvis, as well as a brain injury, and

In July 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada reached a landmark ruling in R. v. Jordan, a criminal case involving a man charged with several drug trafficking and possession offences. The case was on appeal from the B.C. Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court set aside the man’s previous convictions on a finding that there was an unreasonable delay going

In response to increasing concerns and complaints about misleading advertising of lawyer services, in February 2016, the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) established the Advertising and Fee Issues Working Group to collect information, investigate complaints and consider potential regulatory responses to inappropriate practices.  A key objective of this initiative is to make amendments to the rules of professional conduct that

In December 2009, a woman sustained significant injuries to her shoulder and neck, when she was struck by a vehicle while crossing the street in front of a Kitchener hospital.  Her lawyer hired an accident reconstruction expert who determined that the driver’s speed was a causal factor in the accident, and one year after the accident, the woman commenced a