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The loyal reader will note that ClassActionBlawg covers class action trends in other parts of the world, including Canada.  But since I live about 1000 miles (or 1609.344 km) from Canada, and certainly have no license to practice law there, you have to take anything I say about trends in Canadian law with a huge grain of salt.  Not so with Ward Branch’s [...]

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A colleague tipped me off today to the Supreme Court of Canada’s April 2 decision in Canada Post Corp. v. Lépine, 2009 SCC 16.  In that case, Canada’s high court upheld a lower court decision limiting the reach of a settlement class action filed in Ontario, purportedly on behalf of all residents of Canada other than residents [...]

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I just received my quarterly issue of the ABA Class Actions and Derivative Suits Committee (CADS) Newsletter.   The Winter 2009 issue features several articles on trends in international class action law, highlighted by Class Actions San Frontiers, an article authored by three Canadian panelists from a presentation of the same name from November’s ABA National [...]

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I’m still on the road with plans to return to Denver later today, but in the interest of keeping the loyal reader completely up to date on the latest in class action news, here are a couple of quick items: This Vancouver Sun article summarizes a NERA Consulting report on trends in securities class action litigation continues [...]

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“Public nuisance” environmental class actions have not fared well in the U.S. recently, but apparently not so in Canada.  Close on the heels of the Rhode Island Supreme Court’s decision in Rhode Island v. Lead Industries Association, the Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed a Quebec Superior Court’s finding of liability based on the theory that a company’s emissions [...]

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As the European Union and individual EU countries consider potential reforms for dealing with mass and class action lawsuits (see my previous entries here and here), Canadian class actions are becoming more similar to those in the United States, according to an April 18 report in Canadian Underwriter.ca. The article remarks that significant increases in contingent fee awards [...]

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