Ten months before Ontario became the first Canadian common law province to authorise American-style class actions, class actions became available in the Federal Court of Australia. In these two countries and in the United States, the named plaintiffs, commonly referred to as class representatives, are the only claimants formally in charge of the litigation, on the plaintiff side, whilst the outcome of class actions binds not only them and their opponents but also the claimants that they represent, the absent class members. And yet, to date, there have been no comprehensive studies of class representatives in these three countries. The aim of this article is to partly address this significant lacuna in the international legal literature by p...
The article explores securities class actions involving Canadian issuers since the provinces added s...
Ontario’s Class Proceedings Act [CPA] is 30 years old. In the past three decades, it has inspired si...
The role of the class respresentative in class actions has become an enigma. On a doctrinal level, t...
The author looks at emergence of class actions in Canadian litigation and considers the extent to wh...
This article situates the action in ADR theory by viewing it as a hybrid process that draws on both ...
This article highlights the class action proceeding in Quebec, seeking to expose its main characteri...
Class actions, also known as mass torts, have become a vital, developing area of civil law. They off...
"Multi-party litigation is a world-wide legal process, and the class action device is one of its bes...
Class actions have found their way into the fabric of Canada’s civil justice system. Class action le...
The Canadian class action regimes have had a strong influence on the development of collective redre...
This thesis investigates the rapidly developing area of collective redress in England and Canada. It...
Just as economic markets increasingly neglect Canada’s domestic borders, so too does the consequent ...
CLASS ACTION LITIGATION IS OFTEN REGARDED as a successful instrument for advancing access to justice...
The regime governing class actions in the Federal Court of Australia is unique, by international sta...
There has been significant academic buzz about Silver v. Imax, an Ontario case certifying a global c...
The article explores securities class actions involving Canadian issuers since the provinces added s...
Ontario’s Class Proceedings Act [CPA] is 30 years old. In the past three decades, it has inspired si...
The role of the class respresentative in class actions has become an enigma. On a doctrinal level, t...
The author looks at emergence of class actions in Canadian litigation and considers the extent to wh...
This article situates the action in ADR theory by viewing it as a hybrid process that draws on both ...
This article highlights the class action proceeding in Quebec, seeking to expose its main characteri...
Class actions, also known as mass torts, have become a vital, developing area of civil law. They off...
"Multi-party litigation is a world-wide legal process, and the class action device is one of its bes...
Class actions have found their way into the fabric of Canada’s civil justice system. Class action le...
The Canadian class action regimes have had a strong influence on the development of collective redre...
This thesis investigates the rapidly developing area of collective redress in England and Canada. It...
Just as economic markets increasingly neglect Canada’s domestic borders, so too does the consequent ...
CLASS ACTION LITIGATION IS OFTEN REGARDED as a successful instrument for advancing access to justice...
The regime governing class actions in the Federal Court of Australia is unique, by international sta...
There has been significant academic buzz about Silver v. Imax, an Ontario case certifying a global c...
The article explores securities class actions involving Canadian issuers since the provinces added s...
Ontario’s Class Proceedings Act [CPA] is 30 years old. In the past three decades, it has inspired si...
The role of the class respresentative in class actions has become an enigma. On a doctrinal level, t...