Sandhu v. Wellington Place Apartments

2008 ONCA 215; Lerners successfully responded to an appeal attacking the largest actual award for future care costs in Canadian legal history – an assessment of almost $11 million in favour of a toddler who sustained a catastrophic brain injury after falling five storey’s through a broken window screen that his aunt and uncle’s landlord had failed to repair, despite several requests to do so. Issues on the appeal included the size of the awards for future care and pain and suffering as well as certain evidentiary rulings by the trial judge.