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Yanko & Popovic Receives Consumer Choice Award
As Top Law Firm

For the first time, the category of personal injury lawyers has been added to the Consumer Choice award portfolio and the Yanko & Popovic Law Firm is the recipient. Determined through independent research, consumers voted the Calgary Law Firm as their first choice....

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Woman Seeks $1.25M For Drunken Tumble In Calgary Pub

By: Kevin Martin, TorontoSun.com
CALGARY — A local woman who got so drunk she fell while trying to negotiate stairs to the washroom, cracking her skull, is suing a city pub for $1.25 million. ....

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Client Awarded 955K In Settlement
Based On Personal Injury Claim

Reasons for Judgment
THE COURT CLERK: Okay, thank you. These are my oral reasons for decision in the case of Darko Ivanovic and Desi Tyler Cayenne and Terra Crane. Mr. Darko Ivanovic was assaulted by the defendants, Mr. Desi Tyler -- sorry, Tyler Cayenne and Ms. Terra Crane, the defendants. These defendants were noted in default....

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Settling A Dangerous Debt

Bryan Alexander "Popeye" Peters knew how to inspire the fear. His friends grimace as they recall the way this hulking six-foot four-inch, 244-pounder would amuse himself by casually slapping around bar patrons in Calgary. Anyone bold enough to retaliate was savagely mauled. Another favourite Peters' pastime: taping a person's head inside a motorcycle helmet and attempting to smash it with a baseball bat...

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Crown Drops Charges, Businessman Is Free

A pizza parlor owner held out by police as "trick pad" operator for teen prostitutes walked away from a Calgary courtroom a free man Thursday.

Minutes earlier, the lone charge laid in the highly-publicized bust last December had been dropped by the Crown...

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Court Hears Of Brutal Murder

A twisted tale of an arranged marriage, a shameful divorce revenge and contract killers ended with the 1982 slaying of cabby Gurmeet Waraich, a court heard Friday.

Two thugs hired to injure Waraich ended up killing him in a vicious attack with a hammer and screwdriver, said Crown prosecutor Harold Hagglund.

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