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An unfortunate middle-aged immigrant from Poland was involved in six automobile accidents over the course of five years. Five of these accidents resulted in separate lawsuits however the sixth, a collision with a deer, did not result in litigation.

After the usual litigation steps, the self-represented litigant went to trial in Lethbridge which spanned four weeks. At the conclusion of the action the Judge issued his written reasons awarding the Plaintiff a global amount of $11,500.

In many respects, this case was an unremarkable car crash trial. There were however a few items of note in the Judgment in that the Learned Trial Judge:

• Found that in Canada there is no inherent right of a civil litigant to a fully translated trial in their mother tongue.