Sentences with phrase «canadian class action cases»

In a troubling development, third party litigation funding companies are becoming increasingly involved in Canadian class action cases.

Not exact matches

The case involves both U.S. and Canadian regulatory and criminal investigations and, as these things tend to go, shareholder class action litigation.

Other public interest cases include unpaid overtime class actions against Canadian banks and other employers and minimum wage class actions on behalf of junior hockey players.

«I think as a result of that, I got some interesting, complex cases and had some prominent lawyers appearing in front of me,» he says, citing the overtime, Tim Hortons franchise, and Green v. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce class actions as some of the major cases he handled during his time on the Superior Court bench.

[2] In the case at bar, which is a proposed class action, without obtaining court permission, Via Rail Canada Inc. («Via Rail») and Canadian National Railway Company («CNR»), the defendants in the proposed class action, communicated with several putative class members, who had been passengers on a train that derailed on route to Toronto.

Unlike the comprehensive Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA), which was implemented by the government in September 2007 and remains the largest class action settlement in Canadian history, Sixties Scoop lawsuits remain stuck in the deathly pipeline of legal litigation facing strong governmental resistance (Ontario's Sixties Scoop is no exception as the case was bitterly fought and litigated for eight years).

In spite of the outcomes in both cases, the CAT's ready acceptance of the proposed class representatives, its flexibility in regard to litigation funding, and its affirmation of the Canadian approach to collective action, are all likely to give heart to prospective claimants.

In the case of IMAX, the class action brought in Canadian court by all global investors coexists with a class action brought in U.S. court by NASDAQ purchasers.

Recognized as leading Canadian lawyers in product liability defence, we have handled precedent - setting cases, including the first medical device class action to go to trial in Canada.

Lead trial counsel in the first medical products class action / common issues trial tried to verdict in Canada (146 trial days), successfully defending one of the world's leading manufacturers of life - saving cardiac devices in a national class action claiming more than a billion dollars in damages (awarded 2013 Canadian Product Liability Impact Case of the Year by LMG Life Sciences)

In the meantime, two further secondary market liability cases had come before the Court of Appeal on appeal: Green v. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (2012 ONSC 3637), in which Justice Strathy reluctantly declined to certify a class action because it was time - barred by the three - year limitation period; and Silver v. IMAX (2012 ONSC 4881), in which Justice van Rensburg granted an order issuing retroactive leave under s. 138.8 of the OSA to allow the claim to proceed.

This case involved a large firm in Saskatchewan, McKercher LLP («McKercher»), that had accepted a retainer to act against the Canadian National Railway Company («CN») in a class action lawsuit notwithstanding the fact that it was acting for CN on a variety of unrelated matters.

Canadian courts continue to struggle with how to deal with national class actions, as demonstrated in an Ontario Court of Appeal decision on whether an Ontario judge could sit together with colleagues from other provinces to consider the Hepatitis C case.