Ontario’s Class Proceedings Act [CPA] is 30 years old. In the past three decades, it has inspired similar legislation across Canada and around the world, and its capacity for bringing about social change has been widely acknowledged. But, like all things that mature, some cracks are beginning to show. The certification test under section 5 of the CPA has been made more restrictive by recent legislative amendments. In addition, class action practitioners are starting to recognize that the CPA can be a blunt instrument and that some mass claims are better litigated outside of that context. While smaller claims may find safety in numbers in a class action, larger claims that require more individualized treatment may get lost in the crowd. Outs...
This thesis describes, compares and assesses the ways in which mass tort claims are addressed throug...
This article situates the action in ADR theory by viewing it as a hybrid process that draws on both ...
This thesis investigates the rapidly developing area of collective redress in England and Canada. It...
Ontario’s Class Proceedings Act [CPA] is 30 years old. In the past three decades, it has inspired si...
Class actions, also known as mass torts, have become a vital, developing area of civil law. They off...
Class action legislation is a relatively new phenomenon in several Canadian provinces. The state of ...
The author looks at emergence of class actions in Canadian litigation and considers the extent to wh...
This article analyzes the first three years of the operation of Rule 2.1 of Ontario’s Rules of Civil...
Judges and lawyers have embraced class proceedings as fulfilling an access to justice objective. In...
This article highlights the class action proceeding in Quebec, seeking to expose its main characteri...
This work considers the interplay between the Crown, public authorities and the class action device....
Nearly 25 years since its passage, the Ontario Class Proceedings Act has become one of the most freq...
Ten months before Ontario became the first Canadian common law province to authorise American-style ...
The enactment of class proceedings legislation revolutionized civil procedure in Ontario by providin...
This article describes the recent introduction of class actions regimes in Ontario and British Colum...
This thesis describes, compares and assesses the ways in which mass tort claims are addressed throug...
This article situates the action in ADR theory by viewing it as a hybrid process that draws on both ...
This thesis investigates the rapidly developing area of collective redress in England and Canada. It...
Ontario’s Class Proceedings Act [CPA] is 30 years old. In the past three decades, it has inspired si...
Class actions, also known as mass torts, have become a vital, developing area of civil law. They off...
Class action legislation is a relatively new phenomenon in several Canadian provinces. The state of ...
The author looks at emergence of class actions in Canadian litigation and considers the extent to wh...
This article analyzes the first three years of the operation of Rule 2.1 of Ontario’s Rules of Civil...
Judges and lawyers have embraced class proceedings as fulfilling an access to justice objective. In...
This article highlights the class action proceeding in Quebec, seeking to expose its main characteri...
This work considers the interplay between the Crown, public authorities and the class action device....
Nearly 25 years since its passage, the Ontario Class Proceedings Act has become one of the most freq...
Ten months before Ontario became the first Canadian common law province to authorise American-style ...
The enactment of class proceedings legislation revolutionized civil procedure in Ontario by providin...
This article describes the recent introduction of class actions regimes in Ontario and British Colum...
This thesis describes, compares and assesses the ways in which mass tort claims are addressed throug...
This article situates the action in ADR theory by viewing it as a hybrid process that draws on both ...
This thesis investigates the rapidly developing area of collective redress in England and Canada. It...