This proposed class action has been discontinued in the Supreme Court of British Columbia as of January 13, 2026.

No settlement was reached in connection with the discontinuance. Individuals who may have claims relating to the matters raised in the proposed class action may still pursue their own individual claims, subject to any applicable limitation periods and other legal requirements.

Murphy Battista LLP has filed a proposed class action against the Ministry of Children and Family Development (“MCFD”) concerning a failure to provide foster children with basic rights that they were entitled to while they were in care.

Read the Notice of Civil Claim in Stubbington v HMTK (MCFD).

This proposed class action alleges that children in the care of the MCFD had the right to be fed, clothed and nurtured according to community standards (“Basic Rights of Childhood”) and that the MCFD failed to provide the Basic Rights of Childhood to generations of children who were in the care of the MCFD.

As a result of this alleged failure, children in care were exposed to physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, exposure to drug use, exposure to criminal activity, given inadequate food/nourishment, given inadequate medical and other treatments and given inadequate support from to complete a Grade 12 education (“Adverse Childhood Events”).