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Craig Lockwood

Partner, Disputes, Toronto

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In Canadian Class Action Defence, we provide timely, reliable and practical information about defending national and international class actions involving Canadian courts. We share strategic insights on preventing, preparing for, managing and resolving cross-border class actions, both nationally and internationally, using specific cases or developments as the springboard for our discussion. Since Canada does not have a mechanism to centralize class actions brought in different provinces on behalf of the same class (unlike U.S. MDL), managing overlapping class actions in Canadian jurisdictions poses some unique challenges. In this blog, we consider how best to manage these challenges as well as highlighting the differences between jurisdictions.

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Blog March 10, 2016

Ontario Superior Court Resolves Dueling Summary Judgment Motions

In the latest round of  Keatley Surveying v Teranet, a copyright dispute between land surveyors and the manager of Ontario’s electronic land...

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Blog March 3, 2016

Class Action Law Firm Breaches Carriage Order in Volkswagen Litigation

As anticipated, the multiplicity of class actions commenced in Canada in the Volkswagen Litigation has given rise to carriage wars across the...

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Blog February 24, 2016

Avoiding Settlement Stumbling Blocks: Boilerplate Language Not Sufficient

The latest class action settlement approval in Leslie v Agnico-Eagle Mines warns that courts may be willing to intervene to ensure a more adversarial...

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Blog February 18, 2016

Canada’s Patent Regime Forecloses Civil Actions by Consumers in British Columbia

Canada’s patent laws are a complete code giving consumers no right to independent civil actions. This was the conclusion of the British Columbia...

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Blog February 10, 2016

The Poseidon Adventure, Part II – Big Win for Bankers Confirmed On Appeal

The Ontario Court of Appeal has confirmed an important decision limiting the exposure of investment banks to secondary market misrepresentation class...

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Blog February 4, 2016

Take Two: Aggregate Damages Award Upheld at Ontario Court of Appeal

In our previous blog post in 2014, we had reported the Ontario Superior Court in Ramdath v George Brown College had granted the first award of...

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Blog January 28, 2016

Federal Court Refuses to Certify Class Proceeding as “Representative Proceeding” Preferable Procedure

In his December 9, 2015 decision in Canada (Royal Mounted Police) v. Canada (Attorney General) (“Jones”), Justice Locke of the Federal Court...

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Blog January 22, 2016

Court of Appeal Dismisses Pet Valu Class Action and Confirms Courts not to Recast Common Issues where Prejudicial to Defendants

A recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in the Pet Valu franchise class action should give defendants to class proceedings optimism that...

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Blog January 14, 2016

Concurrent Applications for Authorization to Institute a Class Action: The Quebec Approach

Where multiple aspiring class representatives file concurrent applications involving the same parties, concerning the same object and presenting...

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