This blog provides our clients with our views on class actions across Canada in sectors including securities, financial services, product liability, competition, healthcare and other areas of business. It also comments on the impact of class actions on Canadian businesses and the legal landscape, and shares our insights on specific class actions in Canada, related developments and cross-border influences.
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An important reminder from the Quebec Court of Appeal of the importance of causation in environmental class actions
Canada - November 6 2023 On July 24, 2023, the Quebec Court of Appeal in Lalande c. Compagnie d'arrimage de Québec ltée, 2023 QCCA 973 dismissed the appeal from a decision of…
Comments on Bernard v. Collège Charles-Lemoyne de Longueuil Inc. - Freedom of Speech and Right to Opt-Out
Canada - October 10 2023 The authors summarize this case, rendered on June 22, 2023, in which the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of Justice Pierre-C. Gagnon, which…
Commentaire sur la décision Bernard c. Collège Charles-Lemoyne de Longueuil inc. - Liberté d’expression et droit d’exclusion
Canada - October 10 2023 Les auteurs résument cette décision rendue le 22 juin 2023 dans laquelle la Cour d’appel maintient le jugement de l’honorable Pierre-C. Gagnon qui…
The Importance of Precise Settlement Agreements in Class Actions: McLean v. Canada (Attorney General)
Canada - September 29 2023 In McLean v Canada (Attorney General), 2023 FC 1093, the Federal Court refused to extend the deadline for survivors of Indian Day Schools to file…
SCC Rejects Data Breach Class Action Appeals
Canada - August 9 2023 On July 12th, 2023, the Supreme Court of Canada denied leave to appeal to the plaintiffs in four land-mark data breach class actions: Setoguchi v…
Bare Assertions Don’t Cut It: B.C. Court Denies Certification in Proposed Data Breach Class Action
Canada - July 27 2023 In G.D. V. South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority, the B.C. Supreme Court declined to certify a proposed class action against a B.C…
Class Actions in Canada: proceeding on a national basis is not always the preferable procedure
Canada - July 20 2023 Canadian Courts often certify national class actions involving consideration of legislation from multiple provinces, like provincial consumer…
Quebec Court of Appeal Confirms National Classes Still Possible
Canada - May 29 2023 On April 19, 2023, the Quebec Court of Appeal in Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha v. Option Consommateurs, 2023 QCCA 513 dismissed the appeal from a…
The Optimum Solution: Justice Perell Urges Fairness and Restraint in Awarding Aggregate Damages
Canada - May 24 2023 After more than a decade of litigation, the litigants in Spina v. Shoppers Drug Mart Inc., 2023 ONSC 1086 finally have a decision on the…
More Than ‘Symbolic Scrutiny’: Federal Court of Appeal Clarifies Evidentiary Burden and Denies Certification
Canada - May 8 2023 Canadian Courts are increasingly tilting against simply accepting a plaintiff‘s pleading at face value at certification, instead ensuring that…
