Jessica Harding
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Articles
No special treatment: Securities class action stayed by CCAA Court
Canada - November 15 2022 Under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), Canadian Courts have broad discretion to order, extend or lift stays of proceedings. In a…
Sandra Abitan, Sophie Courville, Ilia Kravtsov, Julien Morissette
New class action risks under the Québec Charter of the French language
Canada - June 22 2022 On June 1, 2022, Bill 96 received assent and An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec (the Act) officially became law…
No conspiracy without ‘some evidence’; concludes Superior Court of Québec when dismissing proposed class action
Canada - July 13 2021 On June 28, 2021, in the case of Hazan v. Micron Technology Inc. the Québec Superior Court dismissed an application for authorization to institute a…
Perspectives on class action proceedings reform in Québec
Canada - June 22 2021 In light of recent steps taken to modernize the Québec justice system and increase its efficiency, the Université de Montréal's Class Action…
First merits decision dismissing privacy class action in Canada
Canada - April 19 2021 In an ever growing landscape of data theft and privacy breaches, the Superior Court of Québec recently dismissed a privacy class action on the merits…
