Yesterday, NERA Economic Consulting issued a working paper entitled Trends in Canadian Securities Class Actions: 2009 Update. The paper covers offers a variety of figures and statistics on cases being pursued, time to resolution, the values of settlements reached in 2009, the exposure represented by cases still pending, and the number of cases with parallel U.S. proceedings. [...]
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NERA Economic Consulting Issues Report on Securities Class Actions in Canada
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Reports and Surveys, tagged canada class action, canadian class action, NERA, ontario class action, secondary market liability, securities class action on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bulletproof Blog Offers Expert Insight on Key Canadian Class Action Trend
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Other class action blogs, tagged canada class action, canadian class action, ontario class action, securities class action on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the latest installment of Bulletproof Blog‘s series on class action trends from the plaintiffs’ perspective, Larry Smith interviews Canadian lawyer Won Kim. Kim discusses a recent Ontario court ruling that allows U.S. plaintiffs’ firms to provide administrative support and legal expertise to their Canadian counterparts for class action litigation in Canada. For the complete [...]
Class Action Lawyers Make a Run for the Border
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged antitrust class action, canada class action, canadian class action law, ontario class action, parallel class action, securities class action, transnational class action on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Julie Treadman of the American Lawyer published this intriguing article today summarizing her interview with former Milberg attorney Andrew Morganti, who has been working as a consultant for a plaintiff’s class action firm in Ontario, Canada. Morganti provides his perspectives on the fast-developing areas of securities and antitrust class action law in Canada, opportunities for U.S. class [...]
Supreme Court of Canada Deals Setback to Nationwide Class Action Settlements
Posted in Class Action Decisions, International Class Action Law, tagged canada class action, canada national class action, canadian class action, International Class Action Law, ontario class action, quebec class action, supereme court of canada on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]

