Alliance Members

From coast to coast, the members of the Birth Injury Lawyers Alliance of Canada are tireless advocates for families affected by birth injuries, and are some of the most experienced personal injury and medical malpractice lawyers in the field. Find out more about each of our members below.

Paul McGivern

British Columbia and Yukon

Well known in the medical legal community, Paul McGivern is a senior litigator in medical negligence and infant injury litigation cases.

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Joseph Miller, Q.C.

Alberta and the Northwest Territories

Since 1991, Joe Miller has focused his practice on advising and representing plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases.

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Richard Halpern

Ontario

Richard Halpern is a senior lawyer who acts exclusively for injured people in medical malpractice cases.

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Chris Wullum

Manitoba and Nunavut

Chris Wullum is a lawyer with Tapper Cuddy LLP, with particular experience in birth injury cases.

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Kenneth A. Ready, Q.C.

Saskatchewan

Ken is one of the few lawyers in Saskatchewan who represent Plaintiffs in medical malpractice on a regular basis.

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John McKiggan, Q.C.

Atlantic Canada (NB, NS, PEI & NL)

One of Atlantic Canada’s most experienced personal injury litigators, John McKiggan is one of the founding members of the Birth Injury Lawyers Alliance.

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Associate Member Profiles:

Brian Hebert

Halifax, NS

Kate Cahill

Toronto, ON

Aleks Mladenovic

Toronto, ON

Shelagh McGregor

Edmonton, AB

David de Vere

Edmonton, AB

Andrea Donaldson

Vancouver, BC

Lindsay McGivern

Vancouver, BC

Susanne Raab

Vancouver, BC

Bob Kucheran

Vancouver, BC

Brenda Osmond

Vancouver, BC

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Canadian Birth Injury Law Blog

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOUR BABY WAS INJURED? FETAL HEART RATE PATTERNS

This is the third in a series of three articles about how medical experts determine when a newborn brain injury occurred. The first article in this series dealt with neuroimaging. The second discussed cord blood gas analysis. A newborn with signs of neurologic injury can suffer that injury any time during pregnancy, during labour and […]

A Letter to Moms of Children with Cerebral Palsy

If you are a mom, you have likely experienced “mom guilt” at one point or another. As a working mother, I have had my fair share. The more I speak with other mothers, the more I realize that it is an almost universal feeling. It is rarely rational and logical, but that feeling remains, all […]

WHAT’S AN APGAR SCORE (and why is it important to my baby)?

What does a 65 year old test have to do with the health of your baby? Although you may not have heard of her, Dr. Virginia Apgar has played a role in the assessment of the well-being of virtually every newborn baby born in Canada, the United States and elsewhere in the world for the […]

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOUR BABY WAS INJURED? UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD GASES

This is the second in a series of three articles about how medical experts determine when a newborn brain injury occurred. The first article explains how birth injury lawyers use medical imaging to determine the timing of a brain injury. The third will discuss fetal heart rate changes. A newborn with signs of neurologic injury […]

Proving causation on the basis of an adverse inference: Benhaim v. St-Germain

In the realm of birth injury lawsuits, one of the most important, and at times, most difficult issues for a plaintiff to establish is the legal element known as causation. In order to succeed with a birth injury claim, not only must the plaintiff prove that the doctors or nurses fell below the standard of […]