Sentences with phrase «of class action legislation»

These and other issues may be debated as the Law Commission of Ontario begins its review of class action legislation in Ontario.

The introduction of class action legislation has led to a relative increase in competition law private actions in Canada, largely as a result of consolidating the considerable expenses of commencing competition law private actions.

Not exact matches

The food industry should be aware of and prepared to respond to new Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) regulations, a continued push for legislation requiring the labeling of genetically engineered food and an influx of new consumer fraud class actions directed at product labeling.

Those in need and informed — look for class action info and write your Congressmen / Senators as if the uniformed and do nothing attitude of the admin on this site or others so far behind the times prevails — all other major banks will do the same in the next few months if they feel no consequences if Chase gets away with this — they'll just sneak in before the legislation passes.

If the class - action lawsuit is approved by the court, Brasil says it seeks to overturn the legislation and demands repayment of any tax added to the purchase price of a home because of the buyer's nationality.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

* Develop proposals for amendments to legislation to facilitate the administration of national and multijurisdictional class actions.

Lawyers in other provinces point to Quebec as the one jurisdiction where class actions in this area have a better chance of success, in part because of its consumer protection legislation.

A similar class action was permitted to proceed in Condominium Plan No. 0020701 v. Investplan Properties Inc., 2006 ABQB 224 (CanLII), although the equivalent provision of the Alberta legislation was raised by the judge but not argued by the parties.

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The Ontario Court of Appeal affirmed in Hopkins v. Kay, 2015 ONCA 112, that patients were not precluded by Ontario's privacy legislation from bringing a class action (based on the tort of intrusion upon seclusion) relating to improperly - accessed patient records.

Opponents of the legislation predict an increase in class actions, though multiple million - dollar settlements are unlikely.

«Because class proceeding legislation is procedural, and does not create substantive rights, a proposed class action must identify class members who individually have legal capacity to sue and assert a cause of action,» Garson wrote in her May 3 decision Kwicksutaineuk / Ah - Kwa - Mish First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General).

Class action legislation developed as a result of a product liability case.

The new legislation expands federal court jurisdiction over class actions, and requires close court supervision of settlements, say co - editors / attorneys Anthony Rollo and Hunter Twiford.

The Ontario Court of Appeal is once again making headlines with the case of Ramdath v George Brown College, which has turned out to be a doubly significant case at the intersection of class actions and consumer protection legislation.

The issue of costs has been identified by the framers of the governing legislation as the driving force of class actions and the single most important issue in their design.

ONIWG, Injured Workers» Consultants and injured worker Margery Wardle launched a class action lawsuit in July on behalf of workers with claims prior to 2018, who were left under the old legislation.

The Alberta Court of Queen's Bench will determine whether to certify a class action lawsuit brought by former WHL players, who maintain they were employees and should have been paid minimum wage and other benefits provided by employment standards legislation.

This follows proposals from the European Commissioner for Competition, Neelie Kos, that US - style class actions should be introduced throughout the EU for the purpose of encouraging private enforcement of competition legislation in the courts.

While we're seeing class action litigation related to consumer protection legislation, there are others, such as a pending class action in Vancouver against hotel chains relating to the disclosure of fees on hotel invoices and whether there's been applicable consumer disclosure and consent to those fees.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that class actions are available even in provinces or territories that have not enacted class action legislation.