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August 25, 2021
Using Constitutional Class Actions to Address Racial Discrimination
Elizabeth Emery’s paper, “A Wrench in the Social Justice Toolbox: Assessing the Constitutional Class Action as a Tool for Addressing Racial Discrimination,” was recently published in the Canadian Class Action Review, Volume 17, Issue 1. In this paper, Elizabeth provides an overview of racial profiling by police as a form…
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Class ActionsAugust 31, 2020
Affected by the Canada Revenue Agency privacy breach? Join the class action.
Murphy Battista LLP has filed a proposed class proceeding related to the unauthorized disclosure to a third party of the personal and financial information of thousands of Canadians from their online accounts with the Government of Canada Branded Credential Service (“GCKey”) and the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”). The information was…
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Class ActionsJune 9, 2014
Scandalous Class Action Settlement Rejected
I wrote not long ago about an Ontario judge refusing to approve a class action settlement against legal publisher Thomson Reuters. In that matter, class counsel would be paid $825,000 while the class itself would fork over its intellectual property rights, receiving only a $350,000 fund for public interest litigation…
Continue ReadingMarch 27, 2014
Credit Card Conspiracy Class Action
Reasons today from Chief Justice Bauman, still of the Supreme Court at the time of the application, on a proposed class action against Visa, MasterCard, Royal Bank, BMO, and most of the major financial institutions in Canada. By my count, 31 lawyers, including several of the top litigators in the…
Continue ReadingMarch 19, 2014
Thomson Reuters Class Action Settlement Disapproval
In an interesting decision out of Ontario a couple weeks ago, the Court refused to approve settlement of a class action against legal publisher Thomson Reuters: Waldman v. Thomson Reuters Canada Limited, 2014 ONSC 1288. Thomson Reuters runs Carswell which has a database called Litigator. Litigator compiles court documents (factums, pleadings,…
Continue ReadingFebruary 17, 2014
Interprovincial judges? Administering settlement funds in a multi-jurisdictional class action
February 17, 2014 Reasons were issued today from the BCCA regarding the Hep-C class action that was settled 15 years ago for $1.1Bn. Click to read reasons. As part of the settlement, the superior courts of BC, Ontario, and Quebec took a supervisory role for administration of the massive fund. …
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