Tort vs No-fault Systems in the New Era of ICBC Enhanced Care

Michael Elliot is a partner at Rice Harbut Elliott LLP.  He has devoted his career to fighting for the underdog.  Mike’s personal injury practice is varied and focuses on assisting clients who have suffered injuries arising from motor vehicle accidents, unsafe premises, assaults, and medical and dental malpractice.  Mike’s class action practice concentrates on acting for people who have been harmed by defective pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer products.

Aaron D. Gubeli practices in the area of civil and commercial litigation. He maintains a broad litigation practice with an emphasis on the defence of professional negligence and product liability claims, the defence of municipalities in property damage and personal injury claims, the prosecution of subrogated claims and providing coverage advice.

Aaron brings a large picture and pragmatic perspective to the prosecution and defence of legal actions. He seeks to understand his client’s business and claims handling objectives and to put those objectives front of mind when deriving and implementing litigation strategy.

Assistant Professor Samuel Beswick is a private law scholar with primary research interests in the areas of torts, unjust enrichment, limitations, and remedies. His current research concerns the temporal scope of judicial changes in the law, as well as the rule of law in public authority civil liability. Dr. Beswick has published his research in leading common law journals, and has presented at workshops and conferences across North America and in the United Kingdom. He is the editor of the open-access casebook, Tort Law: Cases and Commentaries (2021 CanLIIDocs 1859). He has held teaching positions at Harvard Law School, King’s College London, and the University of Auckland.

Moira Aikenhead is a Lecturer at the Allard School of Law. Her current research focuses on the adequacy of federal and provincial responses to technology-facilitated gender violence from a feminist perspective. At Allard, Professor Aikenhead teaches Torts and Legal Research and Writing. 

Professor Aikenhead’s recent work examines legal responses to technology-facilitated violence within the context of abusive intimate partnerships. This includes the first analysis of British Columbia’s novel framework for addressing the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, the Intimate Image Protection Act. This work builds on her dissertation research, which encompassed a comprehensive review and critique of the Canadian criminal justice system’s response to technology-facilitated intimate partner violence. Professor Aikenhead’s research highlights challenges that the legal system must face in addressing these evolving forms of violence, including the need to ensure evidentiary standards and legal conceptions of privacy and equality are not eroded in the context of digital violence.